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Media convergence

I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.

TVs and computers should not converge, that's a silly idea.

A TV is a dedicated display device and should remain so but what it displays will change. What the world needs is an open protocol for addressing content for TVs that they can then be directed to use.

What's required is a wafer thin touch sensitive tablet PC (think of a big iPod Touch) that happens to have a TV as a alternate display.

Only the TV isn't an actual alternate display - your tablet doesn't fetch then stream content to it - but it can direct the TV using the protocol I speak of on what to fetch and queue for viewing.

So users can sit calmly on their couch, look up what content is currently interesting, the top YouTube clips of the day and flick them off to their TV. The tablet shouldn't even be able to display full screen its content - that's the TVs job.