Waiting for the late adopters
Everett Rodgers’s adopter curve. Jon’s adopter curve. Since we’re all real smart we all know all about the early/late adopter curve. We quote it and some of us even base business and marketing plans on ...
JPR’s best of CES
We have a list of favorite shows, the ones we say that if we could only go to or two they would be the ones. Of course, Siggraph is number one. What surprises a lot ...
The Army comes out to play
Lt. Colonel Wardynski, game developer What was the biggest hit at E3? Was it the new Matrox AIB, the unbelievable new games from EA, Nintendo’s price cut, the Sony party, ATI’s R300 in the Activision ...
The Stabilized World – there are aftershocks to come
The tectonic plates of CPU Land and Pixel World are grinding against each other in a battle for dominance. Caught in between CPU World and Pixel Town is the place known as, The Chipset Zone…. ...
E3 comes and goes
There’s not much that’s real in Hollywood, so the signs celebrating the arrival of Matrix on Sunset Boulevard simply repeat the obvious. However, as we made our way into the L.A. Convention Center we found ...
Microsoft in the living room
Microsoft has studied the TV/ PC/Communications convergence space for several (four plus?) years. The company understands the magnitude of the issues. But, at the same time, they’re still trying to improvise their end-to-end solution to ...
Enormous changes at the last minute
Nvidia buys MediaQ and boards the fast train to handheld devices Nvidia is buying MediaQ? Now that’s a good use for all that dough Nvidia has had lying around. MediaQ has a line of controllers ...
Welcome to Siggraph … Maybe
Siggraph returns to the West Coast and cuts costs on everything from food, to panels, to signs Hey! Where are we? In order to recover from the fiasco that was Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, ...
Where would I be, without my TV?
In 1999, when we finished our landmark Digital Entertainment Box (DEB) study, I came to the conclusion that television is the center of the universe. Ever since then, like King Arthur’s knights, I’ve searched for ...
Jon Peddie’s Cebit Awards
Going to Cebit wouldn’t be half the fun if it weren’t for the astonishing and strange things one gets to see there. Space simply does not permit showing all the wacky, wonderful, and weird things ...
Cebit 2003
The working press in the Halles of Cebit. The messages for Cebit this year are pretty much the same. The big issues are Wireless Networking for fun and profit, Recordable DVD for fun and profit, ...
Looking ahead by looking backwards
It seems like a good time to reflect on the year past. If you look at the stock trends for the year and project them forward, the JPR graphics index goes to zero February 7, ...