Trend mill: outside the laboratories, whose job is to invent new gadgets rather than make them work commercially, technological crystal-ball gazing has been tamed by dollars-and-cents reality.

Television Asia, May, 2002 by Forrester, Chris; Stein, Janine

Trend mill: outside the laboratories, whose job is to invent new gadgets rather than make them work commercially, technological crystal-ball gazing has been tamed by dollars-and-cents reality. What's possible, it turns out, can be quite different from what's probable. As digital television finds its feet and as different arms of the television industry try to move forward in some sort of co-ordinated fashion, Television Asia outlines the top five must-know trends for the near future.

(Technology) TREND: Smaller, sexier, faster set-top boxes with more bang for your buck and more responsive applications, not to mention a lot more memory, a focus on ergonomic remote controls and a switch from what's possible to what's easy to do The new generation of...

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