Big pictures in small spaces
I am just an old geezer with bad eyes but I have been baffled by all the hype about putting TV and movies on the very small screen that comes with the latest cell phones. I kept asking myself, what’s the point? On the one hand, people are going gaga over high definition and 6-foot TV screens and on the other they want to put movies on a 2-inch screen? I began to wonder if senility was causing me to miss some new overarching concept that somehow combined very large and very small into some new single paradigm of unification, similar to the unification of gravity and nuclear forces in physics.
Now I see that I am not alone in wondering who wants to squint at a small screen. Russell Shaw at ZDNet is scathing in his dissection of the notion of little screens for big pictures. However, at TheStreet.com Jim Cramer (he of CNBC’s Mad Money) writes about the new Apple iPhone and makes the very valid point that the small screen has a big market among teenagers. This group is not so much concerned with picture quality as they are with owning something that is cool and in. In fact, I suppose, it’s not even clear that they’ll spend as much time actually watching one of these small screen devices as they will displaying that they have one or phoning their friends to tell them what it is they’re playing.
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.