Even if you compress them by taking out the enormous redundancy that occurs within and between frames and by taking advantage of the characteristics of human vision, video as we know it still uses many more bits than a computer graphics database capable of synthesizing the same images. Televisions have worked fine for years. From the cheapest to the most expensive sets, plug them in -they work. Even with all the new digital graphics production, our TV's can still receive the fancy images just fine without upgrading to a new plugin everytime some new technology is released. Ursula Franklin in the Real World of Technolgy came up with a good definition.
Technology is simply a way of doing things.
Of course we are seeing a convergence of media technologies, but in looking towards the near future, in the next ten years or so, we need to be looking to new models not older ones. Or just a way of delivering one technology through another one. At the same time we're looking for a convergence of media, we should also expect a continued divergence . And let's not forget the developments in biotechnology. Buy Mindjack t-shirts and other apparel.