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18. A worldwide standard for “CDs” and movies on flash memory devices together with their corresponding players, set up in such a way that moving the media from one player to another will not result in the user “losing his place.” In other words, it should work like an audio / video cassette. If you remove a cassette from one player and insert into another, it continues playing right where you left off. This should be easy to accomplish with flash memory devices because they can also be written to. In addition to the player resume point being stored, information such as playback mode (repeat, shuffle, etc.) and manually / automatically created playlists could also be stored, and thus seamlessly transferred from one playback device to another.
17. Small screen LCD TVs with “Full HD” (1080p) capability. While it’s probably true that no difference between 1080i and 1080p would be noticeable from a distance, small screen LCD TVs with HDMI and/or VGA input are often used in place of computer monitors at a distance of about two feet, in which case the difference in quality would be very easy to detect. In any case, many people, including me, are not going to be satisfied unless their TV has the capability of displaying the highest video resolution possible, no matter how small the screen is!
16. Inexpensive non-SLR digital cameras with interchangable lenses. The purpose of an SLR (single lense reflex) camera is to eliminate viewfinder parallax, and to make interchangeable lenses possible. Both of these problems are automatically solved in even the cheapest LCD display digital camera, so why not, for a slightly higher price make them capable of changing lenses? It’s true that some digital cameras come with zoom lenses with a huge range of focal lengths, but what if you want to attach your camera to a microscope or to a high power telescope? Doesn’t the advent of digital photography make SLR cameras obsolete? SLR cameras are bulky, heavy, slow, noisy, and have a large number of moving parts to potentially break down, so why is there such a thing as a DSLR camera? It doesn’t make sense! It seems like the only reason that they are being manufactured is because SLR cameras have a stereotypical reputation of being professional, and perhaps partly because it’s cheaper to adopt existing SLR cameras to digital rather than design new cameras from scratch! Also, SLR cameras are much more complicated to design and manufacture, so some of the competition is automatically eliminated. Since a large number of people want interchangeable lenses at any cost, the manufacturers are simply taking advantage of their ignorance! There IS such a thing as a non-SLR digital camera with interchangeable lenses, namely the Leica M8, but it has a list price of US$5,995.00!
15. DVD players which can play CD-ROMs / DVD-ROMs full of “.avi,” “.mp4” or “.flv” video files.
14. A Blu-ray or HD DVD Player that's also a computer: Remember the days when home computers used an ordinary audio cassette recorder for storage and a television set for the display? Trouble is, a cassette recorder made a very slow, unreliable data storage device, and TVs made very poor computer monitors! But now we have high definition TVs which are perfectly adequate for use as a computer monitor and flash memory cards which are perfectly adequate for data storage, so why not build a DVD player that includes a CPU, lots of RAM memory, a couple of flash memory sockets, and a couple of USB ports? It would also need a remote keyboard and a remote pointing device. A pointing device could be built into the keyboard plus a cordless mouse could be provided so the user would have a choice. The computer would not need a hard drive as long as it was designed to boot Windows or Linux off of a flash memory card! Then the entire bootup memory card could be copied to another memory card, so that the cards would be completely interchangeable! No more problems with hard drive crashes or hard drives that won’t boot! No more problems with computers that are set up in an unfamiliar way with an unfamiliar set of application software. Everyone could personalize their software so that whatever DVD player / computer they used would be 100% familiar! It would be best if the unit had a Blu-ray or HD DVD-ROM burner. Then it could not only be used for making inexpensive, permanent recordings of music and movies, but it could also be used for storing data on inexpensive CD/DVD-ROMs.
13. An HD (high definition) version of #11 below.
12. An HD (high definition) version of #8 below.
11. DVD players which can play a DVD full of MP3 files (hundreds of hours of speech), and can play them with synchronized text (transcriptions)! They should also include a feature which allows the user to resume the audio / synchronized text the next time that the same DVD is loaded, without requiring the user to do anything special before stopping, ejecting, or turning off the DVD player.
10. A remote controllable LCD TV with a built-in AM/FM/shortwave radio tuner which displays volume level setting, radio frequency setting and radio band setting on the TV screen.
9. A radio with a remote control and with, in addition to stereo line outputs, a video output so that volume level setting, frequency setting, and band setting could be displayed on a TV screen.
8. Portable DVD player with surround sound headphones. They sell portable LCD DVD players that work on AC, batteries, or with a car adapter. They also sell Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound headphones. Why not combine the two?
7. Inexpensive DVD players capable of playing DVDs full of MP3/WMA files.
6. A “universal” remote control which comes with a USB connection and a CD-ROM. It would be programmed on a PC by selecting the appropriate makes and models of TV, DVD player, receiver, etc. from lists. As new models were released, the list could be automatically updated through the Internet. The final configuration could be saved on the PC’s hard drive in case the remote control needed to be reprogrammed at a later date. The remote should include a “Previous Channel” button for the TV/VCR and a “Pause” button for the VCR/DVD player.
5. All computers/DVD players should have DVI outputs, and all LCD/plasma TVs/computer monitors should have DVI inputs. Why convert the digital video signal to analog and then have to convert the analog signal back to digital?
4. JVC has it’s “AV Compulink” system and Sony and RCA have similar systems. The idea is that when you pick up your DVD player’s remote control and press the “Play” button, the TV automatically turns on and switches to the appropriate video input, and receiver automatically turns on and switches to the appropriate digital audio input, and the DVD automatically turns on and resumes playing from where it left off last time for that particular DVD. The problem is that the various systems are not compatible with each other. All of the major manufacturers of audio/video equipment should get together and come up with a universally compatible system.
3. Wireless PC keyboards with built-in pointing devices are already available, but not one with the addition of a built-in component audio/video “universal remote control” which comes with a USB connection and software on CD-ROM. It would be programmed on a PC by selecting the appropriate makes and models of TV, DVD player, receiver, etc. from lists. Each make and model would have a list of available remote control functions which could be displayed on the computer’s monitor or printer. As new models were released, the list could be automatically updated through the Internet. The final configuration could be saved on the PC’s hard drive in case the remote control needed to be reprogrammed in the future. The remote control portion of the keyboard should include all functions such as a “Pause” button for the VCR/DVD and a “Previous Channel” button for the TV/VCR.
2. A CD quality stereo audio recorder with a built in high quality stereo microphone which records directly to an MP3 file in solid state memory (no moving parts and digital recording mean long battery life and no mechanical noise or tape hiss on the recording), and which, when plugged into the USB port of a computer, acts exactly as an external hard drive, and therefore requires no special software on the host computer.
1. A television with a remote controllable AC outlet for a “TV light.”
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