The Desktop PC Is Obsolete

I do not understand why anyone would purchase a big desktop PC that sits on the floor when there are new "mini desktop PC's" available that do the exact same thing (reference also http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_PC ), except for hobbyists or specialists that need to add add-in cards in the back of desktop PC's.

Desktop PC's are so huge and sit on the floor, sucking in dust, which shortens their life.

The Wave Cuts TV And Phone Costs

The Wave is a computer that is customized to work with your TV that can save you a lot of money (http://www.CatchTheWaveTV.com)! Plus, you will enjoy watching and doing things on the Internet on a large screen, and you get a giant digital picture frame (your TV) for free (compared to a 15-inch digital picture frame costing $140).

Save On TV Costs:

If you can watch any shows you want on the Internet, do you need cable TV? You can even watch shows from the premium channels like HBO and Showtime!

Typical cable TV cost $60 per month = The Wave is paid for in less than 6 months. Or you could reduce your cable TV to basic for $18 per month.

Typical DVR cost $13 per month. Saving $60 cable TV +$13 per month = The Wave is paid for in 4.8 months.
If you have two DVR's: Save $86 per month = The Wave is paid for in 4.1 months.

Save On Phone Costs:
If you purchase a USB camera or wireless headset to do free Skype calls to other "Skypers" (plus, with a camera you get to do video phone calls for free): A camera costs about $80 and you could save $40 per month by cancelling your land-line phone. If you cut your TV cable costs by $60 per month, and your phone costs by $40 per month, The Wave is paid for in 3.5 months.

Note: With Skype, you can pay just $2.95 per month to call any phones in the U.S. for free, $5.95 per month to call any specific country, and $12.95 to over 40 countries in the world. Click here: http://www.skype.com/prices/ .

The Wave connects your TV to the Internet

“The Wave” Is A Fully-Functional Computer That Is Customized To Connect Your TV To The Internet -- With No Restrictions And No Monthly Fees

Solana Beach, CA – April 14, 2010

What if there was a product that connects your TV to the Internet that is simple and “just works”, there are no restrictions, and there are no monthly fees?

What if every TV in your house became a large digital picture frame when you are not using it?

Dolphin Consumer Systems has announced “The Wave”, a “setbox” that connects your TV to the Internet that the company claims will “bring a wave of freedom to TV”. It allows open access to the Internet and has no monthly charges (as long as you have access to a wireless Wi-Fi Internet connection, which most people have or can be achieved inexpensively with a wireless router if you have an Internet connection).

The Wave is available for $399, which is about what a low-cost laptop/netbook PC costs. But people just aren’t connecting their PC’s to TV’s in numbers. Often there’s no good place to set a PC by the TV, it’s a hassle to connect and disconnect a laptop PC to a TV, you need to change the settings so it doesn’t go to sleep on you, and you have to go up to the PC to use it’s keyboard or mouse.

For a little bit of fun, the company has licensed the song “Catch A Wave”, which plays when you visit the website and comes with “The Wave” product itself (and it links to a Beach Boys tribute band who coincidentally has a CD called “Catch The Wave”).

Features:
 The Wave includes, games, a calculator, working with pictures, playing music, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, and more…
 The Internet access includes InternetButtons.com, the easiest and best way to access the Internet, with buttons for over 1,500 of the most popular and useful websites.
 When you are not using your TV to watch something, your TV turns into a digital picture frame and displays your pictures.
 4-in-1 memory card reader to transfer your pictures from your camera memory cards
 You can watch videos, TV, and movies on the Internet
 It measures only 10 by 7 inches and one inch thick
 It includes a deluxe wireless keyboard with a built-in trackball mouse. You can also use an iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote control, including keyboarding, and mousing.
 You just plug the cables into the connectors on THE WAVE™ and your TV that fit them, connect the power cord, and you never have to turn THE WAVE™ off. It’s always there on your TV’s PC input.

Features (more technical):
 The Wave has all of features of a PC, plus it has special settings and software for the TV and the Internet.
 PC monitor or TV output (standard VGA, up to 1600x1200 pixels, which is better than “HD TV” which is x1080 pixels/lines)
 Two USB ports, audio output
 Wireless/WLAN/Wi-Fi 802.11b/g or wired Ethernet network connections (for accessing the Internet and also printing to wired or wireless Wi-Fi printers on your home network).
 Memory Card Reader: 4-in-1 (SD/Secure Digital, MMC/Multi Media Card, MS/Memory Stick, & MS Pro)

Actually, The Wave does everything a PC does, except that it is in a box about one-inch high, it comes with a nice wireless keyboard with built-in mouse trackball, and it has settings and custom software that make it easy to use with a TV and the Internet. More information and ordering is available at CatchTheWaveTV.com .

The Wave connects to your TV via the PC/VGA connector, which is on most TV’s. The available resolution of The Wave is higher then HD TV, and it streams/plays video from the Internet fine in the standard video window presented by most websites (although full-screen video might not work well, and depending on the Internet connection speed and the TV’s electronic design).

Dolphin Consumer Systems encourages people to complain to TV shows, TV stations, TV networks, and movie studios if their content is not available on the Internet.

If every TV in your house could access the Internet, where you can watch most TV shows and movies, why would you need to pay for cable TV?

If every TV in your house could make phone calls on the Internet, why would you need to pay for a landline phone? And what if every TV in your house could make video phone calls?

If every TV in your house had the capability of a PC, why would you need a home PC?

If all the content you would want is available by streaming from the Internet, why would you need the cost and hassle of managing a DVR? And why would you need to download or store videos on a local hard drive? And why would you need to purchase DVD’s, which take up room and end up as electronic waste?

If every TV in your house had the capability of a PC, and every PC monitor had a Wave connected, why would you need a home PC? Don’t worry, the PC companies can sell laptop PC’s… and telephone companies do cell phones, and cable TV companies can provide Internet connections, and distributors and middemen for content and DVD’s can find something else to do rather than rip us off… What a concept – pay the content providers directly!

For more information, visit CatchTheWaveTV.com or e-mail info@CatchTheWaveTV.com .

Company Information: Dolphin Consumer Systems is a new company dedicated to “Making Electronics Simpler”. They will consider licensing any company that wants to build a version of The Wave.

Contact:
Info@dcsys.org
Mike Smith
Solana Beach, CA
Phone (858) 350-9157


Note:
 “The Wave”, “Wave”, and “setbox” are trademarks owned by Dolphin Consumer Systems. All rights reserved.
 Dolphin Consumer Systems has patents pending regarding The Wave.
 Please visit www.DCSys.org for more information on the trademarks, patents, and opportunities for licensing, manufacturing, or selling The Wave.
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Do we need to be so devisive?

Don't you think there is too much hate in American politics? It seemed to pick up with "Clinton haters", then "Bush haters", and now "Obama haters". Democrats and Republicans hate each other so much now that it doesn't matter how good someone's proposal is. Meanwhile, the politicians just care about looking good to their constituents and getting re-elected by getting so much pork passed for themselves. And unfortunately even our recent presidents are more concerned about their side/party winning and the other side/party losing on every issue.

No one seems to care about the common good and each "side" just tears apart anything from the other side (which I know is good to some extent, but not just for shutting "the other side" down no matter what).

I'm not a hater, I'm not a Democrat or Republican, and I'm not a conservative or liberal. I'm just for things that make sense (although I know that is in the eye of the beholder). There is something to like and dislike that every politicaion does. Can't people support the things they like, no matter who is proposing it, rather than be completely against anything from someone that isn't under their label?

The only solution to this "we hate them and will shut them down" syndrome seems to be to get third and fourth parties stronger into politics. Or do you really want to just be a hater and one-sided, stopping the other side no matter what the merits of the proposal are? Do you really want to support stalemates and not getting anything done while big companies stomp on us? Do you really want to continue to have the worst and most expensive health care coverage of any developed nation?

It's time for people to get past their hate for the other person or the other side, and think and support things that need to be done, regardless of who proposes it.

Broadcast TV stations need to jump ahead - not die!

Why aren't broadcast TV stations broadcasting over the the new public medium - the Internet!

I think there is a law that requires broadcast TV stations to exist? But over the air is just plain obsolete! If TV stations were broadcast over the Internet, they would have tremendous nationwide and worldwide audiences for advertising! And people would have thousands of choices of broadcast stations to watch, including stations in towns where they grew up or lived before, with local news and sports, etc. Broadcasting over the air is so "50's" - so outdated and unpopular today in the U.S.

Or are broadcast TV stations just going to rollover and die, and TV content limited to people that can pay for it by cable, satellite, or cell phone? As Time Warner takes over NBC, could they decide to stop broadcasting over the air? And why wouldn't all broadcast stations in the U.S. stop broadcasting over the air and just "broadcast" via cable since they would make more money with the latter? That's what recent articles are saying.

Is the U.S. going to fall behind the rest of the world in yet another technology/information area because we allow cable TV companies to control everything? Why do we need cable TV, when every TV station and show can stream on the Internet, especially as TV's increasingly connect to the Internet? Of course, the cable TV companies are the primary providers of the Internet, so they will still have their place...

Cut your telephone and cable TV cords!

People have already been "cutting their telephone cords" by cancelling their landline phone services. You can of course use cell phones or, for no cost, Skype, which is free phone over the Internet (try it, you'll like it - it's easy - just put in someone's name and call them!). And you can pay a small monthly cost for calling other people's landlines. You can just use the built-in microphone and speakers in a laptop PC, or might want to get a wired headset or wireless Bluetooth headset to go with your PC (and a Bluetooth USB stick if you don't have Bluetooth in your PC).

But the next "cutting of cords" is your cable and satellite TV service. Most TV shows and movies are available on the Internet now! Complain to your TV stations or channels if their broadcasts or shows are not available! All TV stations and channels should be available on the Internet! They would have a much larger audience for their advertising! Also, try Hulu.com, which carries a lot of TV shows, and where you can flag a show you want to follow so it will alert you by e-mail when there is a new one and keep a list of the ones you haven't watched yet.

The final "cutting of cords" will be the TV cables or phone lines/DSL for Internet access. You can of course already purchase a wireless service for your PC from cell phone company, but it is somewhat pricey and slow. But a new high-speed wireless standard called Wi-Max is coming (like Wi-Fi for in your home, but Wi-Max can go 3 miles), so that you could get wireless high-speed Internet to all of your PC's or other Internet devices in your unit, and then perhaps cancel your wired Internet service via the TV cable or DSL/phone line.
Caution: There are two standards for Wi-Max, one for the cell phone networks and one for PC's. Either will work of course, but cell phone companies may charge more, while cable TV or landline DSL phone companies can put up a transmitter in your neighborhood what you could access with your PC.

The difference between netbooks and notebooks

Netbooks are laptop PC's with smaller than full-size keyboard keys, which determines the width of the PC. That is what allows them to be smaller than 11 inches wide (see calculations below).

Low-cost laptop PC's with full size keyboards are "low-cost notebook PC's".

The first notebook PC's had U.S. notebook paper dimensions of 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Then "A4" notebook PC's came along which had the longer length of the international standard "A4" notebook paper. And then wider screens came along more recently that made laptop PC's that are huge. But, for "netbooks", it's all about size, which is determined by the width, which is determined by the keyboard key spacing.

The smallest width that a notebook keyboard can be is 13-1/2 keys wide, which is 10.125 inches (full-size keys are on 3/4-inch centers), plus another half inch for the case on each side, equals 10.625 inches. But usually the Backspace and other keys on the right side of the QWERTY layout are at least another half key larger, which makes the keyboard widith 10.5 inches, so, with the case, 11.0 inches (ah - the length of a U.S. standard piece of "notebook" paper!). Anything less than that is a "netbook"!