MyLifeBits: The Ultimate Home Media Center Revolution

1. Media Center meets MyLifeBits to go home"The PC is going to be the place where you store the information … really the center of control“ - Bill Gates CES 1/2001UC/Berkeley 20 November 2002 Gordon Bell Microsoft Research Gbell@microsoft.com www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell

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

3. Work in progress(Plasma panel goes here.) HP Media Center goes here.

4. 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

5. Legacy Legacy Legacy Redundant stereo Cassette Receiver Wfr Spkr 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 stereo CD 5 speakers Spkr IR stereo Video* VCR 5.1 digital comp. DVD stereo Video* Set top Set top Cable/ Satellite Video* 5.1 digital Plasma Panel Media Center Computer Ethernet SVHS-wide Camera Mic *Video = composite or S-video Kbd Mse

6. 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!

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

8. 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

9. Cyberspace: A spiraling quest in 3D real space Storage & computation Content Cyberization Communication

10. Cyberspace: A Network of ... Networks of ... Motes Continent Body Region/ Intranet Car Home Campus World

11. Data Telephony Television Cyberspace: one, two or three networks?

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

13. SATELLITE TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL CABLE DSL-TELCO Connected home frontier sans garage Peripherals Digital photos TV TV Gaming Screen devices Stereo

14. 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

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

16. Home media network with Digital Transformers…

17. Existing Home Entertainment Centers

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

19. Provides a wide range of rich entertainments in your living room PC Entertainment Appliance alias: Gateway Server alias: Media Center alias: Media Server • 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 alias: eHome Appliance Dave Marsh, Microsoft

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

22. HP Media Center sans TV

23. Content for future home entertainment centerContent 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)

24. Utility/Media Ambiance (just being there) Entertainment& Education Communicate 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 Technology

25. Media center 2

26. Photos

27. Art

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

29. Talking Head Telepresentation with slides on 48” TV

30. Soprano and NY Times

31. Reading from Plasma Panel

32. Train ride…

33. 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

34. Imagine the “killer app” for: The One Tbyte, Lifetime, PC • CyberAll convinces me of a lifetime memory! • Technology to support the vision: • Guarantee that data will live forever! • Low cost (to user) cyberization • 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

35. 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

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

37. Directory Size and Files

38. File Distribution Nov. 2002

39. 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 Teleph. 2-4 Tel. 10 Mbps Uses existing wiring Questionable data-rate Power AC Power ? Uses existing wiring Unproven; safety 1394  Everything Distance, lack of protocols 802.11b Radio LAN 11 Gbps No wires Crowded spectrum, speed 802.11a Radio LAN 50 Gbps “ “ Bluetoot 1. Mbps “ “ Short distance, speed RF 1 Mbps “ “ Low speed Fiber 1394, SPDIF etc Speed. Install. skill; lack of home net equipment Wires and radio networks for in home

40. Vcr, settop, media and channel co’s for Television

41. Digital Rights Management… unless MPAA provides a “reasonable” market for media, the whole world will become thieves. • Provide a “reasonable” market and industry for renting, owning, viewing, etc. content • Make it illegal to record video, police every hard drive, and prosecute users • Eliminate the “open video” interface and replace with DVI Cableetc Set-top “O DVI Monitor Encoder

42. NY TIMES Perishable dvd 0211

43. 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.

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45. Gordon’s very own Vision for the evolution of Home Networks • We’re on a quest for cyberization • Three networks need to converge for: • computation, • communication and • entertainment • A look inside the home • A look at the black boxes • Integrating audio, photos, video and TV

46. 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!

47. Living room wiring