Damion Chaplin
01-12-2007, 01:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback163.html' target='_blank'>http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback163.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Having written about video and audio technology since—gulp!—1980, let me tell you, there have been some mighty dull years. When I started out, big-screen TVs existed, but were based on analog technology and looked awful. The notion of combining video and audio into a single system was so unusual then that I was actually rebuked by my bosses at Video Magazine for writing a long and prominent new-product item about the very first surround receiver. It was a Kenwood with composite video switching, and no surround decoding, because surround sound hadn’t reached the home front. HDTV and the progeny of Dolby and DTS have remade the world and made it better. Now you can enjoy a huge, detailed picture with sound all around you. And just when you think things couldn’t get any better, they’re about to. Again. Here are a few rash predictions for 2007."</i><br /><br />I always love these tech predictions, especially when we review them ten years later. :wink: Among Mark Fleichmann's predictions for this year: Telco TV! Prepare for TV offerings from Verizon, AT&T and the like; Price drops on flat panel TVs will level out; Blu-ray and HD-DVD will stall each others' growth and Environmentally-friendly surround sound receivers and amps to name a few. So tell us: What are your predections for 2007? Netflix set-top box? Well, we can hope. :)