Jeremy Charette
12-03-2005, 02:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-11-24T005423Z_01_ROB403246_RTRUKOC_0_US-JAPAN-CANON.xml' target='_blank'>http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-11-24T005423Z_01_ROB403246_RTRUKOC_0_US-JAPAN-CANON.xml</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Canon...has developed a printer that can print information from digital TV broadcasts and aims to expand the business to 100 billion yen in five years. Canon plans to launch the ink jet printer in Japan in the autumn of next year ahead of the nationwide rollout of terrestrial digital broadcasts late next year, estimating the domestic market for it will reach 4.8 million units by 2011. The printer will likely cost about 50,000 yen in Japan and will be launched in the U.S. and Europe at a later date, it said. The world's top maker of copiers and cameras is aggressively investing in the development of new products, keen to cultivate new growth drivers as competition in the office equipment market intensifies and growth in the digital camera market slows."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/TVPrinter.JPG" /> <br /><br />I just have one question: Why? :roll: Inkjet printers are loud and expensive to operate. I certainly wouldn't want one sitting right next to (or under) my HDTV. What would consumers want to print out anyways? Where is the appeal? Would you want to be able to print a picture of something you saw on TV, so you could say to friends and co-workers "Look what I saw on TV last night!" :lol: