Gordon Bell Microsoft Research Gbell@microsoft research.microsoft/~gbell

1. The Home Digital Multimedia Network"The PC is going to be the place where you store the information and really the center of control“ - Bill Gates CES 1/2001 Gordon Bell Microsoft Research Gbell@microsoft.com www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell

2. The Home Digital Multimedia Network Vision: All digital content. IP on everything. All listening/viewing stations will be digital. In the 10+year, short-term, Digital Transformers convert IP to legacy analog devices. Today Digital Transformers = computers!

3. SATELLITE TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL CABLE DSL-TELCO The Connected Home Peripherals Digital photos TV TV Gaming Screen devices Stereo

4. X* Spkr Home Networks: PC-based service DSL, etc. input • 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. Home IP network C.srv X* X* X* Monitor Rec/AMP broadcast TVset HDTVTuner CATV Dist CATV Network

5. Home media network with Digital Transformers…

6. A Digital Transformer for Audio: Gateway’s Connected Home Audio Player

7. Existing Home Entertainment Centers

8. The “Black PC” aka DHEC: Digital Home Entertainment Center

9. ACTIVY Media CenterOne H/W for multiple functions Reduces the number of devices, remotes and wires around the TV

10. PC Architected Entertainment Appliances • Up-market home theater styling • Quiet fan and Hard Disk • No messy wiring • No floppy (and hide give-away PC traits) • Uncompromised video quality, (eg good de-interlacing) • Premium TV receiver modules (eg Premium Satellite) • Hardware digital compression of analog TV • DVI connection to HD display (optimally 1024x768 or 1280x720) • High quality downscaling TV-out for existing legacy TV • Always available (through advanced power management) • Incremental purchasing (1394 & USB modules) • Recordable DVD, timeshifting HD, more TV receiver modules • Expandability (1394 & USB module expansion enclosure) • Fast Ethernet & adapters for other home network types • Range of remote control options (include cursor control) • BlueTooth: Basic remote, wireless keyboard, PocketPC/TabletPC • Legacy equipment control • S/P-DIF, then 1394 active speakers

11. PC Architected Entertainment Appliance Provides a wide range of rich entertainments in your living room alias: Media Center alias: Media Server • Single remote control • Easy to use, just pick an entertainment • Always on ready to entertain • PC architecture hidden inside running Whistler (But consumer need not know) • Only does entertainments, not general PC activities • Seamlessly mixes TV and the Web • Incremental purchasing model enabled, eg device bay • Microsoft TV Technologies in Whistler provides extensive enhanced TV capabilities • Range of 1394/USB receiver modules for premium TV • Forms the gateway server for the video home network alias: Gateway Server alias: eHome Appliance Dave Marsh, Microsoft

12. Utility/Media Ambiance (just being there) Entertainment; & Education Communication at a distance Interaction Text Books >> ebooks; newspapers Fax >> email; chat Audio CDs, radio>> Ripped CDs, MP3, Internet Radio Internet Radio Telephone >>IP telephony; voice chat Live performances>>Net jam sessions Visual Art, 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 Table of Interactivity, Media, and Technolgy

13. Content for future home entertainment centerContent from nets and CyberAll • TV content (ala TiVo) • WWW (pages, mail, etc.) • Personal Photos • Art (“TV-set” screen savers) • Personal videos • Internet radio and ripped CD audio • Virtual window (train ride, concerts, MTV)

14. Reading in bed on Plasma Panel

15. Art

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

17. Talking Head Telepresentation with slides on 48” TV

18. Train ride…

19. Mitsubishi 42” TV set driven from a PC

20. Cyber All, 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

21. "The PC is going to be the place where you store the information and really the center of control“ Billg 1/7/2001 Cyberall is an “on-going” project to “cyberize” all of personal bits! • Memory recall of books, CDs, communication, papers, photos, video • Photos of physical object collections • Elimination of all physical stores & objects • Content source for media display: ambiance, entertainment, communication, interaction Goal: to understand the 1 TByte PC: need, utility, cost, feasibility and tools.

22. CyberAll Jan. 2000 180 .pdf .pst (500 MB) 3 310 .ppt .xls 140 120 .gif .doc 500 325 .jpg .doc 4100 4900 .jpg .tif 470 .xls 120 .pdf 210 .ppt 250 Music 6.0 GB 1.5K files 150 CDs Working 2.0 GB 130 folders 1.9K files Archive 3.5 GB 340 folders 12.3K files Books 25 MB 1K files/book Video 2.6 GB 10 hours Low res 14 GB (by size) Files (by number)

23. Imagine the “killer app” for: The One Tbyte, Lifetime, PC • CyberAll convinces me of a lifetime memory! • Epaper is a great addition to the vision! The most significant Office™ addition since HTML. • Technology to support the vision: • Guarantee that data will live forever! • A single index that includes mail, conversations, web accesses, and books! • E-book…e-magazines reach critical mass! • Telephony and audio capture are needed • Photo & video “index serving” • More meta-information … Office, photos • Lots of GUI to improve ease-of-use

24. Tools, time, and cost • Scanners: HP Digital Sender, flat beds with ADF, HP photo; fast one to come • Photos: $1 or 0.5-5 min. Large posters: ~ 1-5 hr.Artifacts: ~ 10 min. including photo • Scanning to TIF, PDF: <1 min/page • OCR: for E-Paper or PDF: ~3 pages/min • OCR: for editing 10 min/page! • Books: scanned at CMU ($100/book)

25. Tools • Acrobat*, Paperport* 6, Omnipage 10 • Indexing Service & Enfish (indexer/search) • Conversion of DEC 8” floppies • “Doubles” to reduce redundancies *Microsoft epaper can replace these!

26. Storing all we’ve read, heard, & seen Human data-types /hr /day (/4yr) /lifetime read text, few pictures 200 K 2 -10 M/G 60-300 G speech text @120wpm 43 K 0.5 M/G 15 G speech @1KBps 3.6 M 40 M/G 1.2 T stills w/voice @100KB 200 K 2 M/G 60 G video-like 50Kb/s POTS 22 M .25 G/T 25 T video 200Kb/s VHS-lite 90 M 1 G/T 100 T video 4.3Mb/s HDTV/DVD 1.8 G 20 G/T 1 P

27. User Context / Timelines Personal (including financial) Professional (work related) Archival Working Character of Cyber All Use

28. User Context / Timelines Personal (ambiance, entertainment, finance) Professional (work related) Archival (historical reference) Documents, photos and photo albums, music, video memory-aid,entertainment, medical history,progeny Books, papers, reference documents memory-aid and reference Working (daily use) Documents, email, photos, CDs, video ambiance,entertainment communication, finance and “work” Documents, emailcontent for profession use to communicate, and “work” Character of Cyber All Use

29. Connecting computers to receivers, TV sets and/or large monitors • TANSTAAFL* for wiring, monitors, computers*There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch! • CAT5+ @100-10K Mbps is the best, fungible audio, telephony, IP, and video net. CATV is still required, but need not be with the right device! • Computer & HDTV monitors replace TV setsTV sets: unacceptable for browsing & mail… fixable • Every viewing or listening place requires a computer or “digital transformer” for control and Digital to legacy analog (radio mouse gives location flexibility)

30. Gordon’s wiring closet for: 3 studies and 3 viewing/listening sites. • DSL & Cable Modems: • DSL 0.9 vs Cable .001 • 802.11b transceiver • Siemens 2 line phone transceiver • Fax switcher for line sharing • Sonicbox firewall • 100 Mb Ethernet switch, patch panel, and punchdown for 4 lines • 20 min. brown out battery backup • House Alarm • Not shown: CATV distribution Love power hogs

31. Network Scheme Data-rate Advantage Disadvantage CAT5+ 4 Twisted pr. 1Gbps Separate wiring; low cost; easy install. Telco compatible. “Fungible” wiring. New wiring. Useful for audio and composite video. Inability to transmit CATV. CATV R6U Co-ax 1 GHz (150 6 MHz chs.) Exists for TV sets; could also serve IP throughout the home RF analog; no digital Telephone 2-4 Tel. pr. 10 Mbps Uses existing wiring Questionable data-rate Power AC Power ? Uses existing wiring Unproven; safety 1394 Distance, lack of protocols 802.11b Radio LAN 11 Gbps No wires Crowded spectrum, speed 802.11a Radio LAN 50 Gbps “ “ Bluetooth 1. Mbps “ “ Short distance, speed Home RF 1 Mbps “ “ Low speed Fiber 1394, SPDIF, etc. Speed. Install. skill; lack of home net equipment Wires and radio networks for in home

32. Digital all the way! Don’t bother with TV setsif you want to utilize the screens for anything but TV content Computer Hi Res. Computer Monitor SVGA… etc. 5-10’ CATV Dist. Set top Cable

33. Computer to Television Alternatives* • Display • Hi-res. monitors with CATV/set-top input … we MUST replace the TV set with a hi-res. monitor • Television sets, but inadequate for browsing, mail • Source (computer to composite | S-video) • Video card • SVGA to composite scan converter • Portable with video output…(unacceptable quality) • Distribution to one TV set • Composite | S-video limited to 10’-50’ • Transformer coupling using CAT5 for long distance • Distribution to multiple TV sets • 2.9 GHz radio link is of no use • CATV links using RF channel * 1+ 2 x 4 alts!

34. Alternatives for connecting computers to legacy TV sets Compos.|S-Video Computer V card TV Set Balun Balun Scan Conv xVGA CAT5 2.4 Ghz 2.4 Ghz Radio Portable Computer Video out 4 Distribution alts. 3 Source alts. CATV Dist. Set top Mod. CATV cable Cable