1. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Issues in Home Media Networks Media Center meets MyLifeBits at home "The PC is going to be the place where you store the information … really the center of control“ - Bill Gates CES 1/2001 UCLA Postel Lecture 16 January 2003 Gordon Bell Microsoft Research Gbell@microsoft.com www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell

2. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Converging MyLifeBits with Media Center MyLifeBits is an “on-going” project to “cyberize” and to now be able to USE all of bits! ► Telephone and other conversations and messages ► Recall all books, CDs, communication, papers, photos, video, TV,saved TV (unless I’ll be incarcerated) ► Elimination of all stores of physical objects  Photos of physical object collections ► Content and use: ambiance, entertainment, communication, interaction using Media Center for music, photos, TV & saved TV, videos Goal: To understand and utilize the 1 TByte PC: need, utility, cost, feasibility, problems & tools.

3. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Opportunities and Impediments ► Converged content 1, 2 or 3 networks?  An all digital cable network ► In home networking ► The A/V experience with/without computers ► Add the media center Mbox ► DRM

4. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Cyberspace: A spiraling quest in 3D real space Storage & computation Communication Cyberization Content

5. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Region/Intranet Campus Home Body World Continent Cyberspace: A Network of... Networks of... Motes Car

6. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Data Cyberspace: one, two or three networks? Telephony Television

7. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Broad- cast Cable PBX VCR CDs LECs TV Long Dist. LECs DBS The Internet clients/ servers LANs Pvt. WANs Cable phone Cable I’net LAN PBX I’net Phone Games Wire- less Wire- less Television world Telephony world Datacom world The Colliding?? Worlds of TV, Telephony & Datacom a.k.a. Computing & Internet ITV? Sat. RADIO

8. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft The Home Digital Multimedia Network ► Vision:  All digital network. IP on everything.  All digital content. ► All listening/viewing stations will be digital. ► 5-10+year, short-term, Digital Transformers  convert IP to legacy analog devices  today Digital Transformers = computers!

9. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Peripherals Screen devices Gaming Stereo TV TV Digital photos Connected home frontier sans garage DSL-TELCO SATELLITE TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL CABLE

10. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Home Networks: PC-based service Home IP network CATV Dist Rec/ AMP X* C.srv Monitor TVset HDTV Tuner CATV Network Servers: Hold & deliver audio, photos, video Encode TV content Computers: Control, get content from web, servers Monitors: HDTV TV-sets: receive encoded & CATV content C* = computer. X = digital transformer. DSL, etc. input broadcast Spkr X*

11. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft A Digital Transformer for Audio: Gateway’s Connected Home Audio Player

12. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Home media network with Digital Transformers…

13. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Existing Home Entertainment Centers

14. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft The “Black PC” aka DHEC: Digital Home Entertainment Center ?

15. Wires and radio networks for in home NetworkSchemeData-rateAdvantageDisadvantage CAT5+4 Twisted pr.1GbpsSeparate wiring; low cost; easy install. Telco compatible. “Fungible” wiring. New wiring. Useful for audio and composite video. Inability to transmit CATV. CATVR6U Co-ax1 GHz (150 6 MHz chs.) Exists for TV sets; could also serve IP throughout the home RF analog; no digital Teleph.2-4 Tel.10 Mbps Uses existing wiringQuestionable data-rate PowerAC Power?Uses existing wiring Unproven; safety 1394 Everything Distance, lack of protocols 802.11bRadio LAN11 Gbps No wires Crowded spectrum, speed 802.11aRadio LAN 50 Gbps ““ Bluetooth 1. Mbps“ “ Short distance, speed RF 1 Mbps“ “ Low speed Fiber1394, SPDIF etc Speed. Install. skill; lack of home net equipment

16. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft gbell small home network hub for wired and wireless data, security, CATV, and telephony… no free lunch DSL (IP dial tone) and cable data Ethernet and 802.11b (2.4 GHz) internal Telephony and 2.4 GHz telephony Fax switching Power and UPS Security Cable TV

17. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft CD VCR Cassette Plasma Panel DVD Media Center Computer Set top KbdMse Wfr Spkr IR Cable/ Satellite Ethernet SVHS-wide 5.1 digital 5 speakers stereo Video* 5.1 digital comp. stereo Video* Cables/links Speaker 5+1 Plasma 2 or 3 Cable/Enet 2 IR 8 Stereo 4 5.1 digital 2 Comp./S-video 3 Plasma panel 1 Power 10 Kbd/mse 2 Monitor II (opt.) 4 Camera 2 Total 42 – 46 Things 18+remotes *Video = composite or S-video Camera Mic Receiver L egacy R edundant

18. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft 64 pair phone cable US West Phone System PBX 20 digital lines 8 analog lines VMail Fax DSS Phones CD/DVD Catalog CATV TCI Cable Modulaors Spliters CH 90 CH 91 CH 92 600 CD Jukebox To CATV Outlets around house Phast Controller Sound System Security camera CH 94 Smart Light Switches Sprinker Valves Audio Zones Intercom Zones Security System Radiant Heat Valves Thermostats Phast Processor Data Network Moisture Sensors Garage door openers Sensors in House Room Keypads Garage door sensors Caller ID Fiber to next door house Den Color Printer Bonus Room Laser Printer 200 DVD Jukebox CH 93 4 VMail lines To Theater System AM/F M Receiver NT Server w/BackOffice Den Laser Printer Rec Room Gaming PC Theater Room Gaming PC Family Room Gaming PC Bonus Room Gaming PC Den PC Jake’s Room PC Gaming 2-channel intercom network Intercom to next door Chris’s Room PC Bonus Room PC … … … Brianv’s Home

19. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft PC Entertainment Appliance ► Attractive, quiet, easy to install ► Easy to use, just pick an entertainment task ► Single remote control ► Always on… ready to entertain ► PC architecture inside (consumer transparent) ► Only does entertainments, not general PC activities… realistic?? ► Seamlessly mixes TV and the Web ► Incremental purchasing model eg. device bay ► Technologies provide enhanced TV  Range of 1394/USB receiver modules for premium TV ► Gateway server for the video home network Provides a wide range of rich entertainments in your living room Dave Marsh, Microsoft alias: Media Center alias: Gateway Server alias: Media Server alias: eHome Appliance

20. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft

21. Media Center One H/W for multiple functions Reduces the number of devices, remotes and wires around the TV

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23. Media center 2

24. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Content for future home entertainment center Content from nets and CyberAll ► TV and radio content (ala TiVo and rivo)… plus aggressive capture for future viewing (movies) and listening ► WWW (pages, mail, etc.) ► Personal Photos ► Personal videos ► Art (“TV-set” screen savers) ► Internet radio and ripped CD audio ► Virtual window (train ride, concerts, MTV)

25. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Table of Interactivity, Media, and Technology Utility/ Media Ambiance (just being there) Entertainment & Education Communicate at a distance Interaction Text Books >> ebooks; newspapers Fax >> email; chat AudioCDs, radio>> Ripped CDs, MP3, Internet Radio Internet RadioTelephone >> IP telephony; voice chat Live performances ^>> Net jam sessions VisualArt, photos>> “TV Screen savers”… art, photos, posters, video Web cams tele-places Audio/ Visual MTV >>MTV (digital) “discovery channel” >> tele-learning Life-size videophone. Tele-meetings & tele- conferences Games>> local & group games, Web

26. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Photos

27. Art

28. Caneel Bay Vacation Jan. 1998 Gordon, Gwen, Brig, Pam, Fiona, Bob, Laura and Kolbe

29. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Talking Head Telepresentation with slides on 48” TV

30. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft If, therefore, the happiness of an individual, like that of a nation, may be taken to vary inversely with the materials afforded by them to the biographer or the historian, Adam Smith may be considered to have attained no mean degree of human felicity. From his ideal of life, political ambition and greatness were altogether excluded; it was his creed that happiness was equal in every lot, and that contentment alone was necessary to ensure it. "What," he asks, "can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" To this simple standard, Reading from Plasma Panel

31. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Train ride…

32. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft MyLifeBits, a 1 Tbyte, lifetime PC: Cyberizing everything… I’ve written, said, presented (incl. video), photos of physical objects & a few things I’ve read, heard, seen

33. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Imagine the “killer app” for: The One Tbyte, Lifetime, PC ► CyberAll convinces me of a lifetime memory! ► Technology to support the vision: 1.Guarantee that data will live forever! 2.Low cost (to user) cyberization 3.A single index that includes mail, conversations, web accesses, and books! 4.E-book…e-magazines reach critical mass! 5.Telephony and audio capture are needed 6.Photo & video “index serving” 7.More meta-information … Office, photos 8.Lots of GUI to improve ease-of-use

34. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Storing all we’ve read, heard, & seen Human data-types /hr/day (/4yr)/lifetime read text, few pictures200 K 2 -10 M/G60-300 G speech text @120wpm 43 K 0.5 M/G 15 G speech @1KBps 3.6 M 40 M/G1.2 T stills w/voice @100KB 200 K2 M/G60 G video-like 50Kb/s POTS 22 M.25 G/T 25 T video 200Kb/s VHS-lite 90 M1 G/T100 T video 4.3Mb/s HDTV/DVD 1.8 G20 G/T 1 P

35. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Character of MyLifeBits… User Context / Timelines Personal (including financial) Professional (work related) Archival Working

36. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Directory Size and Files 11/2002 SizeFiles Music7.25 GB2K songs Books554 MB5.5K (5 books) Video2.6 GB26 files Working4.5 GB 5K files 433 folders Archive ( papers, photos…) 5.4 GB 18.6K files 439 folders Total20.3 GB

37. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft File Distribution 11/2002 ActiveArchive.PPT523379.PDF272281.PST6 (1 GByte) 200K msg0.XLS274113.DOC7916173.GIF757534.JPG6928216.TIF662897 Total397716593

38. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Vcr, settop, media and channel co’s for Television

39. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Digital Rights Management… unless MPAA provides a “reasonable” market for media, the whole world will become thieves. 1. Provide a “reasonable” market and industry for renting, owning, viewing, etc. content 2. Make it illegal to record video, police every hard drive, and prosecute users 3. Eliminate the “open video” interface and replace with DVI Set-topMonitor Cable etc “O DVI Encoder

40. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Restructuring of the Cable Industry: A proposal ► Move the set top to the head end  Provides a secure channel from head end to set  Eliminates the need for expensive set tops from Scientific Atlantic/Motorola duopoly ► Cable suppliers can provide the critical services that are on an inevitable course to disappear  Time shifting aka PVR in homes e.g. Toshiba  Video-on-demand via the Internet

41. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft NY TIMES Perishable dvd 0211

42. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft Put the set top and content at the head-end or central office ► A 3.5 ft rack that inputs Gigabit Ethernet containing MPEG-2 (and its successors) digital video or IP and provides high-ingestion rate storage for four hours for 150 TV channels plus another 150 movies and generates up to 128 frequency agile 6-MHz carriers carrying a total of 1280 separate 3.85 Mbps MPEG-2 digital streams to individual subscribers. ► The in-house set top (“transformer”) is 1 chip.

43. ©Gordon Bell Microsoft End bit