a tous les fortiches en anglais: besoin coup de main...SVP
Posted: 05 Dec 2002 17:56
bon, voila un texte plutot obscur...
A couch Potato's digital dream
meet the moxi, wich hopes to replace half your media gadgets and control the rest. By Steven Levy
If you sold your company to microsoft, how would you splurge? Steve Perlman dropped about a million bucks outfitting his Lake Tahoe, California, retreat with a self-designed digital home entertainment center, wher TV, video, music (950 CDs!) and the Web are integrated, networked and easily controlled from any room. "It's awesome," he says.
Now, Perlman hopes to bring such awesomeness to the homes of the mogully deprived. This week his new company, Moxi Digital, unveils a grand attempt to bring together the myriad streams in home entertainment into a system controllable by a single remote. Its hub is the Moxi Media Center, a dull silver slab resemblig a DVD player with some extra buttons. Its primary function is a replacement for the satellite-TV receiver or cable set-top box that now streams into what is still the 800-pound gorilla of diversions, the television set. But that's only the beginning.
Throw out your Ti-Vo, because the Media Center can perform the functions of a personal video recorder like pausing broadcasts, or one-touch recording of soaporas and all-new "CSI" episodes. Junk your DVD/audio-CD player because there'sone built into the box. Ditch your AirPort, because the Media Center beams the same wi/fi signals to a broad-band Internet connection. And clear up space on your computer hard disk because the mammoth drive inside the Media Center (a minimum 80 gigabytes) will hold all your digital photos and home movies. While you're at it, deep-six all those CD jewel boxes; and after you download the songs into the Moxi, you can use those shiny disks as coasters. And by 2003, Moxi will include the ability to make Internet-based phone calls, so kiss your telephones goodbye, too. To fulfill the dream of always being able to see or hear something good, now, Moxi Digital is creating databases that catalog and cross-reference all recorded music, TV shows and movies-and also list what'savailable at any given moment. These are accessible by menus that not only present desirable choices but transform your Moxi into a mony pit. If you search for Tom Hanks, you'll find next Tuesday's HBO viewing of "Castaway", an offer to buy a DVD of "Philadelphia" (another click plays the sound track) and the news that his new flick is coming next mounth (want to buy a ticket?).
Users will get Moxi through providers of satellite TV (EchoStar will be first to offer it, later this year) and, beginning in 2003, cable television; AOL is Perlman's lead investor (The Washington Post Company, wich owns NEWSWEEK, also has a stake). For those companies, the system provides not just revenue from sales of music and movie tickets but protection of intellectual content, because Moxi is a "media lockbox" that embeds anticopying protections on music and videos that run on the system.
This means that Moxi could be a Trojan horse into the home for media that are controlled not by the user, but the provider; it may even help in realizing the dream of record labels and movie studios (like AOL): a "pay per view" world where every listen of a Lucinda Williams tune or viewing of a "Get Smart" rerun racks up another nickel on the cable bil. Perlman acknowledges that Moxi allows media providers to restrict users but believes the marketplace will compel providers "to provide the right balance-if you cross the line [and frustrate consumers], you're doomed".
Perlman himself is putting on the line his reputation as a techie who knows consumers. His previous effort, WebTV, never took off the way he hoped after Microsoft's $503 million purchase of the company. Now he is Microsoft's competitor inthe battle to digitize, simplify and supercharge home entertainment-and make consumers feel like million-dollar media kings. At the risk of monthly bills that could make them paupers.
Après première étude, voila ce ke j'ai compris:
Un telespectateur passif du rêve digital rencontre le ?moxi?(surment produit vendu) et espère jetter ses gadjets médis et télécommandes.
Vous seriez fou de vendre votre compagnie a Microsoft ! Steeve Pearlmal a laissé passer environ 1 million de $ (? équipant ? son
Lac Tahoe, en Californie, ? reculé ?
avec 1 centre de divertissement domestique auto-dijital ou la TV, la vidéo et la musique (950 cd!!!) et le web sont intégrés et mis en réseau et facillement contrôlés à partir de n'importre quelle pièce.
"C'est effrayant" déclare-t-il.
Maintenant, Perlman espère apporter de telles ??innovations effrayantes??? aux ??? maisons des mogully ,?? privées.
Cette semaine, sa nouvelle compagnie, Moxi Dijital, dévoile son projet de rassembler la vague myriam ?? au divertissement domestique par système controlable par simple télécommande. Son centre est un ??morne??? block d'argent, qui ressemble à un lecteur DVD avec quelques boutons en +. Sa fonction primaire est de remplacer le récepteur télé-sat
ou le démodulateur cable qui sont actuellement ??? répartis?? dans ce qui ??vaut quand même?? 800 pounds de déviations.
Jettez votre tv-vidéo parce ke le Media Center peut executer les fonctions d'un magnétoscope, comme mettrre en pause vos emissions, ou encore, en une touche, enregistrer vos feuilletons télévisés et tous les nouveaux ????CSI?? . Mettez à la poubelle vos lecteurs DVD et CD car il y en a un intégré.
Bazardez aussi votre ???Airport???, le MC traite les memes signaux hi-fi par connection internet.
Faites de la place sur votre diske dur car les commandes gigantesques du MC (min80Gb) vont ???? ..... ???? vos fotos dijitales et vos ..????Film privés???.
Pendant ke vous y etes, ???approfondissez??? 6 ?? ces bijoux de boites de cD????? ; et lorske vous aurrez téléchargé les chansons sur MC, vous pourrez utiliser ces jolis CD brillants comme ?.....? .
Dès 2003, Moxi permettra de telephoner par internet, alors au revoir votre telephone § Pour ???concrétiser?? le rêve de voir ou entendre ,
?quelque chose de bien??? quand vous le souhaitez, Moxi Dijital ???vous tient o courant d programmes que vous pourriez enregistrer,et leur heure???
Tiou, voula lboulo, il en mank un bou, si vous pourriez pme dire ce ke vous en pensez ????
A couch Potato's digital dream
meet the moxi, wich hopes to replace half your media gadgets and control the rest. By Steven Levy
If you sold your company to microsoft, how would you splurge? Steve Perlman dropped about a million bucks outfitting his Lake Tahoe, California, retreat with a self-designed digital home entertainment center, wher TV, video, music (950 CDs!) and the Web are integrated, networked and easily controlled from any room. "It's awesome," he says.
Now, Perlman hopes to bring such awesomeness to the homes of the mogully deprived. This week his new company, Moxi Digital, unveils a grand attempt to bring together the myriad streams in home entertainment into a system controllable by a single remote. Its hub is the Moxi Media Center, a dull silver slab resemblig a DVD player with some extra buttons. Its primary function is a replacement for the satellite-TV receiver or cable set-top box that now streams into what is still the 800-pound gorilla of diversions, the television set. But that's only the beginning.
Throw out your Ti-Vo, because the Media Center can perform the functions of a personal video recorder like pausing broadcasts, or one-touch recording of soaporas and all-new "CSI" episodes. Junk your DVD/audio-CD player because there'sone built into the box. Ditch your AirPort, because the Media Center beams the same wi/fi signals to a broad-band Internet connection. And clear up space on your computer hard disk because the mammoth drive inside the Media Center (a minimum 80 gigabytes) will hold all your digital photos and home movies. While you're at it, deep-six all those CD jewel boxes; and after you download the songs into the Moxi, you can use those shiny disks as coasters. And by 2003, Moxi will include the ability to make Internet-based phone calls, so kiss your telephones goodbye, too. To fulfill the dream of always being able to see or hear something good, now, Moxi Digital is creating databases that catalog and cross-reference all recorded music, TV shows and movies-and also list what'savailable at any given moment. These are accessible by menus that not only present desirable choices but transform your Moxi into a mony pit. If you search for Tom Hanks, you'll find next Tuesday's HBO viewing of "Castaway", an offer to buy a DVD of "Philadelphia" (another click plays the sound track) and the news that his new flick is coming next mounth (want to buy a ticket?).
Users will get Moxi through providers of satellite TV (EchoStar will be first to offer it, later this year) and, beginning in 2003, cable television; AOL is Perlman's lead investor (The Washington Post Company, wich owns NEWSWEEK, also has a stake). For those companies, the system provides not just revenue from sales of music and movie tickets but protection of intellectual content, because Moxi is a "media lockbox" that embeds anticopying protections on music and videos that run on the system.
This means that Moxi could be a Trojan horse into the home for media that are controlled not by the user, but the provider; it may even help in realizing the dream of record labels and movie studios (like AOL): a "pay per view" world where every listen of a Lucinda Williams tune or viewing of a "Get Smart" rerun racks up another nickel on the cable bil. Perlman acknowledges that Moxi allows media providers to restrict users but believes the marketplace will compel providers "to provide the right balance-if you cross the line [and frustrate consumers], you're doomed".
Perlman himself is putting on the line his reputation as a techie who knows consumers. His previous effort, WebTV, never took off the way he hoped after Microsoft's $503 million purchase of the company. Now he is Microsoft's competitor inthe battle to digitize, simplify and supercharge home entertainment-and make consumers feel like million-dollar media kings. At the risk of monthly bills that could make them paupers.
Après première étude, voila ce ke j'ai compris:
Un telespectateur passif du rêve digital rencontre le ?moxi?(surment produit vendu) et espère jetter ses gadjets médis et télécommandes.
Vous seriez fou de vendre votre compagnie a Microsoft ! Steeve Pearlmal a laissé passer environ 1 million de $ (? équipant ? son
Lac Tahoe, en Californie, ? reculé ?
avec 1 centre de divertissement domestique auto-dijital ou la TV, la vidéo et la musique (950 cd!!!) et le web sont intégrés et mis en réseau et facillement contrôlés à partir de n'importre quelle pièce.
"C'est effrayant" déclare-t-il.
Maintenant, Perlman espère apporter de telles ??innovations effrayantes??? aux ??? maisons des mogully ,?? privées.
Cette semaine, sa nouvelle compagnie, Moxi Dijital, dévoile son projet de rassembler la vague myriam ?? au divertissement domestique par système controlable par simple télécommande. Son centre est un ??morne??? block d'argent, qui ressemble à un lecteur DVD avec quelques boutons en +. Sa fonction primaire est de remplacer le récepteur télé-sat
ou le démodulateur cable qui sont actuellement ??? répartis?? dans ce qui ??vaut quand même?? 800 pounds de déviations.
Jettez votre tv-vidéo parce ke le Media Center peut executer les fonctions d'un magnétoscope, comme mettrre en pause vos emissions, ou encore, en une touche, enregistrer vos feuilletons télévisés et tous les nouveaux ????CSI?? . Mettez à la poubelle vos lecteurs DVD et CD car il y en a un intégré.
Bazardez aussi votre ???Airport???, le MC traite les memes signaux hi-fi par connection internet.
Faites de la place sur votre diske dur car les commandes gigantesques du MC (min80Gb) vont ???? ..... ???? vos fotos dijitales et vos ..????Film privés???.
Pendant ke vous y etes, ???approfondissez??? 6 ?? ces bijoux de boites de cD????? ; et lorske vous aurrez téléchargé les chansons sur MC, vous pourrez utiliser ces jolis CD brillants comme ?.....? .
Dès 2003, Moxi permettra de telephoner par internet, alors au revoir votre telephone § Pour ???concrétiser?? le rêve de voir ou entendre ,
?quelque chose de bien??? quand vous le souhaitez, Moxi Dijital ???vous tient o courant d programmes que vous pourriez enregistrer,et leur heure???
Tiou, voula lboulo, il en mank un bou, si vous pourriez pme dire ce ke vous en pensez ????
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Je ne pense pas être spécialement exigeant, je comprends qu'on fasse des fautes d'orthographe et je comprends aussi que ce soit plus rapide à taper, mais là ça me donne vraiment des boutons... 
Est-ce que je suis le seul dans ce cas-là ?? Je fais aussi du chat et ça m'arrive d'écrire des trucs comme "c moi ki pose les kestions", mais bon... pas à outrance non plus. Peut-être que 
pourrait nous faire un nouveau sondage là-dessus... 
