If there’s one industry that didn’t expect to be upended by mobile devices, it’s the entertainment industry. The music, television, and radio empires are domains of the status quo. They’ve established dominance and usage behaviors for the public, and they’re perfectly happy with how things have been.
Mobile devices and their ever-increasing connectivity options and speeds have upended entertainment. Now able to get more information more quickly than ever wherever they want, users are asking the same questions about their entertainment.
So just where do smartphones and tablets fit into the home theater set-up – are they just for serving content, or can you use them to control all of the home theater stack as well? Can we use our smartphones to broadcast music through the entire house, without wires or hassle? And how has mobile changed how we watch TV and listen to traditional radio?
