In attending and speaking at the Connected Home Global Summit 2011 in London last week I was introduced to, at least parts of, the industry of the connected home. With an emphasis on media the conference made a pretty good job at conveying the state of the industry.
The focus was definitely on tablets as the second screen of choice. Not surprising.
What is surprising is that no-one seem to focus on performance. We are adding features en masse to the wall mounted screen at home, yet, your average connected TV at home is slow beyond comparison.
The one manufacturer that actually takes the leap of faith and produces a "snappy" TV experience will win. Not only the consumers but also the developers. As we all know, it is the developers you want. As history will tell you, this happend to the mobile industry with the advent of the iPhone and will happen to the TV industry as well. This is obviously not only up to the TV manufacturer as we are expecting more and more of the content to be delivered OTT and we need to ensure that end-to-end delivery of content has the quality of experience that we are all expecting.
Do let me know if you know about a TV platform that I ought to check out based on it's performance in combined execution speed and openness for developers.
Being about the Connected Home there was a lot of presentations with a focus on what operators and manufacturers have in their current portfolio. A lot less of forward looking predictions.
My prediction is that we will see a Web of Screens, taking off in the research around Web of Things. When all screens are connected to the web we all of a sudden need much more sophisticated discovery and control functions than is currently in place in DLNA or other offerings such as AirPlay.
This will take a fundamental understanding of which screens that are relevant for you in any given context. If implemented right, perhaps we will actually lose the cable and get to the point where we are truly Un-Connected.
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