Your living room in 2010—unplugged
“The days of ‘Oh, LOST is on at 8 o’clock’ are over, “People are going to watch what they want to watch, when they want to watch.” This newfound freedom will spring from a seamless interface between TVs and COMPUTER he says, and wired connections will be as quaint as incandescent bulbs. Instead, components will beam uncompressed video and audio across the room.

TVs themselves could look quite different in 2010. They may be small and flexible enough to roll up and take with you. Or they may be enormous screens that are integrated into your home—like Panasonic’s LIFE WALL, a giant high-definition projector system that alters the images it shows—landscapes, videos, virtual windows—depending on who’s watching.  

You may still need a subscription à la cable,  but programming will be Internet-based and “very niche-oriented.” People will subscribe only to shows that suit their interests, whether ice skating or interior design, cage fighting or sci-fi.

The crystal ball says…
Looking even further into the future, the idea of convergence—the relationship between computers and television—is moot by 2020, West says. “Everything has an IP address. Everything works together.” Your refrigerator might tell the grocery store when you’re running low on milk. Your dog’s collar could alert you when Rover roves too far.

Twelve years from now, the majority of the content we enjoy on our TVs (if we still call it TV) will come not from subscription services or tangible media like discs, but “from the cloud somewhere,”  By cloud this means that vast array of servers that will contain pretty much everything—every song, every movie, every book and sitcom and cooking show. The idea of owning media on disc or paper may be completely obsolete.

Ten or twenty years from now,  almost any form of entertainment customers demand could be technologically feasible, including 3D TV. It’s already here—any T.V WITH A 120 H.Z.FRAME RATE  is capable of displaying video that’s three-dimensional when viewed with special glasses. And at CES, Philips showed off an LCD TV on which 3D images appeared to pop right out of the screen without the need for glasses. “It was stunning,” . As for me, I’m patiently waiting for the day a school of tropical fish swims out of my TV and around my living room.

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