UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #257

[Aidan Cook]

> >I'm just guessing that when/should the "TV vs. The Web" rumble kicks

> > off, the majority of domestic users will go for the new TV over the

> > new computer every time (yes, I have no statistics to back this up).

> > After all, computers are tricky, irritating, used by geeks, and always

> > out of date, whereas a TV is my friend, and I can play my new

> > Dreamcast on it...

> 

> If consumers were rational you would be right. But when you consider how

> many families spend 1,000 on home computing every three years and 300 on

> a new TV every ten there is a good reason to believe that the opposite

> will be the case. But again, there will be convergence.

>

> Ray Taylor


This is all a bit of a 'mare without the figures, but I'd love to see some

research on the comparative spending power of the mass of non-internet

users, contrasted with the spending power of the minority Internet-users.

The Internet user is very attractive because of their higher than average

disposable income, the non-users are attractive because there are more of

them. 


It'll depend on what can be delivered through the TV as well obviously -

If Digital TV can provide a service as self-contained, intuitive and

authoritative as the old french Minitel was, then I oculd see a lot of

people never using the Internet side of their set-top box, because "I can

never find anything I want, its all weird, its too slow, and TV's better".


Sorry, I really am just musing out loud now... 

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