Jeff said:
$0.00+, IMHO.
Best of Luck.
-Jeff
Input always appreciated, Jeff!
Honest reg-fee-negative value opinions always remind me to ask myself if I’m too close to the (.TV) forest to see the trees.
Stating, even briefly, Why, or How, one formed a stated opinion would be helpful... but that's a bit much to ask when the opinion is given free.
On the other hand, or channel(s), there are many market forces and opinions that I can point to that support my .TV "gamble".
CNET Interviewer (1-11-06):
"What other types of devices does Intel want to get into? With the Oplus Technologies acquisition, it looks like TVs are on the list."
Chandrasekher: "That, I think, is probably the next space. The TV, as you and I have grown up with it, is not going to be the TV that the next generation of kids grows up with. It's going to be dramatically different. If I look at the home today, there are multiple pipes coming into it. There's one pipe through which you get data into the home, there's another pipe through which you get voice, and there's a third pipe through which you get content. At some point in the near future, and we can debate at what point that is, but in the near future, I think that those three pipes will effectively be one pipe.
As those three pipes converge, the screens inside the home will change. There's no reason your PC screen cannot be a content screen as well as a communications screen. By the same token, you're going to use your TV screen for voice, video communications, data. The amount of intelligence inside of it is going to have to change."
[Anand Chandrasekher, Senior Vice President Intel]
“Music services are expanding quickly and have huge potential, and secure, open and interoperable content protection is vital to enable viable business models,” states Cees Geel, Senior Director of Marketing & Sales of Philips Software. “Philips Software has a unique ability to provide these solutions because of our combination of proven DRM and multimedia expertise, alongside years of experience in consumer and mobile devices. This knowledge also extends into the TV domain, so we can offer customers a smooth migration path to mobile TV services as they emerge.”
[source: the Philips website]
"The last roadblock between the Web and the great unwashed masses, is ease of use. When the Web becomes just another channel on granma’s TV with the mass market associated with TV, how much will be spent on Web advertising then?" [Bruce Morris, webdevelopersjournal.com]
".tv is the fresh, new, exciting web address where "TV" is not only the most recognized two letter symbol in the world, but also is the most meaningful web address for the evolving Internet." [NTT Group, (Hong Kong) "a pioneer in the world's telecommunication industry"]
These are some of the nice looking, healthy, big, trees I see growing in the .TV forest if one wants to chop them down you'll need more than a "IMHO" ax. -- IMHO
