The Home Digital Multimedia Network The PC is

The Home Digital Multimedia Network "The PC is going to be the place where you store the information and really the center of control“ - Bill Gates CES 1/2001 Gordon Bell Microsoft Research Gbell@microsoft. com www. research. microsoft. com/~gbell ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

The Home Digital Multimedia Network ►Vision: All digital content. IP on everything. ►All listening/viewing stations will be digital. ►In the 10+year, short-term, Digital Transformers convert IP to legacy analog devices. ►Today Digital Transformers = computers! ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

The Connected Home Digital photos SATELLITE TV Peripherals TV Gaming TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL CABLE DSL-TELCO Stereo Screen devices

Home Networks: PC-based service DSL, etc. input Servers: • Hold & deliver audio, photos, video • Encode TV content Home IP network Computers: • Control, get content C. srv from web, servers Monitors: HDTV X* TV-sets: receive encoded & CATV content C* = computer. X = digital transformer. X* Spkr CATV Dist TVset X* X* Monitor Rec/ AMP HDTV broadcast Tuner CATV Network ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Home media network with Digital Transformers… ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

A Digital Transformer for Audio: Gateway’s Connected Home Audio Player ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Existing Home Entertainment Centers ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

The “Black PC” aka DHEC: Digital Home Entertainment Center ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

ACTIVY Media Center One H/W for multiple functions Reduces the number of devices, remotes and wires around the TV

PC Architected Entertainment Appliances ► ► ► Up-market home theater styling Quiet fan and Hard Disk No messy wiring No floppy (and hide give-away PC traits) Uncompromised video quality, (eg good de-interlacing) Premium TV receiver modules (eg Premium Satellite) Hardware digital compression of analog TV DVI connection to HD display (optimally 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 720) High quality downscaling TV-out for existing legacy TV Always available (through advanced power management) Incremental purchasing (1394 & USB modules) § Recordable DVD, timeshifting HD, more TV receiver modules Expandability (1394 & USB module expansion enclosure) ► Fast Ethernet & adapters for other home network types ► Range of remote control options (include cursor control) ► § Blue. Tooth: Basic remote, wireless keyboard, Pocket. PC/Tablet. PC Legacy equipment control ► S/P-DIF, then 1394 active speakers ► ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Provides a wide range of rich entertainments in your living room PC Architected Entertainment Appliance ► ► ► ► alias: Media Center alias: Media Server alias: Gateway Server alias: e. Home Appliance Single remote control Easy to use, just pick an entertainment Always on ready to entertain PC architecture hidden inside running Whistler (But consumer need not know) Only does entertainments, not general PC activities Seamlessly mixes TV and the Web Incremental purchasing model enabled, eg device bay Microsoft TV Technologies in Whistler provides extensive enhanced TV capabilities § ► Range of 1394/USB receiver modules for premium TV Forms the gateway server for the video home network Dave Marsh, Microsoft ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Table of Interactivity, Media, and Technolgy Utility/ Media Ambiance (just being there) Entertainment; & Education Communication at a distance Interaction Text Books >> ebooks; newspapers Fax >> email; chat Audio CDs, radio>> Ripped CDs, MP 3, Internet Radio Telephone >> IP telephony; voice chat Live performances>> Net jam sessions Visual Art, photos>> “TV Screen savers”… art, photos, posters, video Web cams tele-places Audio/ Visual MTV >>MTV (digital) “discovery channel” >> tele -learning Life-size videophone. Tele -meetings & tele -conferences Games>> local & group games , Web ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Content for future home entertainment center Content from nets and Cyber. All TV content (ala Ti. Vo) ► WWW (pages, mail, etc. ) ► ► ► Personal Photos Art (“TV-set” screen savers) Personal videos Internet radio and ripped CD audio Virtual window (train ride, concerts, MTV) ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

If, therefore, the happiness of an individual, like that of a nation, may be taken to vary inversely with the materials afforded by them to the biographer or the historian, Adam Smith may be considered to have attained no mean degree of human felicity. From his ideal of life, political ambition and greatness were altogether excluded; it was his creed that happiness was equal in every lot, and that contentment alone was necessary to ensure it. "What, " he asks, "can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? " To this simple standard, Reading in bed on Plasma Panel ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Art ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Caneel Bay Vacation Jan. 1998 Gordon, Gwen, Brig, Pam, Fiona, Bob, Laura and Kolbe ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Talking Head Telepresentation with slides on 48” TV ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Train ride… ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Mitsubishi 42” TV set driven from a PC ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Cyber All, a 1 Tbyte, lifetime PC: Cyberizing everything… I’ve written, said, presented (incl. video), photos of physical objects & a few things I’ve read, heard, seen ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

"The PC is going to be the place where you store the information and really the center of control“ Billg 1/7/2001 Cyberall is an “on-going” project to “cyberize” all of personal bits! ►Memory recall of books, CDs, communication, papers, photos, video ►Photos of physical object collections ►Elimination of all physical stores & objects ►Content source for media display: ambiance, entertainment, communication, interaction Goal: to understand the 1 TByte PC: need, utility, cost, feasibility and tools. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Cyber. All Jan. 2000. ppt 310 180. pdf . pst (500 MB) 3. xls 140 Music 6. 0 GB 1. 5 K files 150 CDs Books 25 MB 1 K files/book 120. gif Working 2. 0 GB 130 folders 1. 9 K files 325. jpg Archive 3. 5 GB 340 folders 12. 3 K files Video 2. 6 GB 10 hours Low res 14 GB (by size) . doc 500 . doc 4100 4900. jpg . tif 470. xls 120. pdf 210. ppt 250 Files (by number) ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Imagine the “killer app” for: The One Tbyte, Lifetime, PC Cyber. All convinces me of a lifetime memory! ► Epaper is a great addition to the vision! The most significant Office™ addition since HTML. ► Technology to support the vision: 1. Guarantee that data will live forever! 2. A single index that includes mail, conversations, web accesses, and books! 3. E-book…e-magazines reach critical mass! 4. Telephony and audio capture are needed 5. Photo & video “index serving” 6. More meta-information … Office, photos ©Gordon Bell 7. Lots of GUI to improve ease-of-use ► Microsoft

Tools, time, and cost ► Scanners: HP Digital Sender, flat beds with ADF, HP photo; fast one to come ► Photos: $1 or 0. 5 -5 min. Large posters: ~ 1 -5 hr. Artifacts: ~ 10 min. including photo ► Scanning to TIF, PDF: <1 min/page ► OCR: for E-Paper or PDF: ~3 pages/min ► OCR: for editing 10 min/page! ► Books: scanned at CMU ($100/book) ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Tools ► Acrobat*, Paperport* 6, Omnipage 10 ► Indexing Service & Enfish (indexer/search) ► Conversion of DEC 8” floppies ► “Doubles” to reduce redundancies *Microsoft epaper can replace these! ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Storing all we’ve read, heard, & seen Human data-types read text, few pictures /hr 200 K /day (/4 yr) 2 -10 M/G /lifetime 60 -300 G speech text @120 wpm speech @1 KBps 43 K 3. 6 M 0. 5 M/G 40 M/G 15 G 1. 2 T stills w/voice @100 KB 200 K 2 M/G 60 G video-like 50 Kb/s POTS video 200 Kb/s VHS-lite 22 M 90 M . 25 G/T 1 G/T 25 T 100 T video 4. 3 Mb/s HDTV/DVD 1. 8 G 20 G/T 1 P ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Character of Cyber All User Personal Context / (including financial) Timelines Professional (work related) Archival Working ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Character of Cyber All User Personal (ambiance, Context / entertainment, Timelines finance) Professional (work related) Archival Documents, photos and Books, papers, reference documents (historical photo albums, music, video memory-aid, memory-aid and reference) entertainment, medical history, progeny reference Working Documents, email, (daily use) photos, CDs, video Documents, email content for profession ambiance, entertainment use to communicate, communication, finance and “work” ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Connecting computers to receivers, TV sets and/or large monitors ► ► TANSTAAFL* for wiring, monitors, computers *There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch! CAT 5+ @100 -10 K Mbps is the best, fungible audio, telephony, IP, and video net. CATV is still required, but need not be with the right device! Computer & HDTV monitors replace TV sets: unacceptable for browsing & mail… fixable Every viewing or listening place requires a computer or “digital transformer” for control and Digital to legacy analog (radio mouse gives location flexibility) ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Gordon’s wiring closet for: 3 studies and 3 viewing/listening sites. Love power hogs • DSL & Cable Modems: DSL 0. 9 vs Cable. 001 • 802. 11 b transceiver • Siemens 2 line phone transceiver • Fax switcher for line sharing • Sonicbox firewall • 100 Mb Ethernet switch, patch panel, and punchdown for 4 lines • 20 min. brown out battery backup • House Alarm • Not shown: CATV distribution ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Wires and radio networks for in home Network Scheme Data-rate Advantage Disadvantage CAT 5+ 4 Twisted pr. 1 Gbps New wiring. Useful for audio and composite video. Inability to transmit CATV R 6 U Co-ax 1 GHz (150 6 MHz chs. ) Separate wiring; low cost; easy install. Telco compatible. “Fungible” wiring. Exists for TV sets; could also serve IP throughout the home Telephone 2 -4 Tel. pr. 10 Mbps Uses existing wiring Questionable data-rate Power AC Power ? Uses existing wiring Unproven; safety 1394 Distance, lack of protocols 802. 11 b Radio LAN 11 Gbps No wires Crowded spectrum, speed 802. 11 a Radio LAN 50 Gbps “ “ Bluetooth 1. Mbps “ “ Short distance, speed Home RF 1 Mbps “ “ Low speed Fiber 1394, SPDIF, etc. Speed. Install. skill; lack of home net equipment RF analog; no digital ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Digital all the way! Don’t bother with TV sets if you want to utilize the screens for anything but TV content Computer SVGA… etc. 5 -10’ Hi Res. Computer Monitor CATV Dist. Set top Cable ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Computer to Television Alternatives* ► Display § Hi-res. monitors with CATV/set-top input … we MUST replace the TV set with a hi-res. monitor § Television sets, but inadequate for browsing, mail ► Source (computer to composite | S-video) § Video card § SVGA to composite scan converter § Portable with video output…(unacceptable quality) ► Distribution to one TV set § Composite | S-video limited to 10’-50’ § Transformer coupling using CAT 5 for long distance ► Distribution to multiple TV sets § 2. 9 GHz radio link is of no use § CATV links using RF channel * 1+ 2 x 4 alts! ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

Alternatives for connecting computers to legacy TV sets Compos. |S-Video V card Computer x. VGA Scan Conv Balun CAT 5 2. 4 Ghz Portable Computer Video out Balun TV Set 2. 4 Ghz Radio 3 Source alts. Mod. CATV Dist. Cable 4 Distribution alts. CATV cable Set top ©Gordon Bell Microsoft