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Originally Posted by philja
The evolution of reading technology will continue. We've seen broadcast media tech converge with computer tech so you can fetch your movies on a tablet and cast the picture to your large screen tv.
I wish I understood more about video tech and its applications.
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That's totally trivial. The hard bit is the Video playout servers. That sort of technology is 20 years old.
Reading is about reading. If it's multimedia, then you use an app or a web page. It can be on the phone, laptop, tablet, in the so called smart TV or displayed on the "TV" via cable or RF (casting is just one protocol using RF).
I was writing technical documents about VOD (Video On Demand) aka Streaming twenty years ago and building multimedia programs for PCs with only 800 x 600 high colour and even 640 x 480 by 256 colours with adaptive palettes so each photo (only one on screen at a time with the text) looked naturalnearly twenty-five years ago.
PDFs are for proofing for paper printing, but can be useful for fixed layout documents on 10" and bigger screens. No animation at all, by design.
For multimedia, that's text, stills, video, gifs and audio, you need an app. Even HTML5 is poor compared to an app. It's not that hard.