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Entertainment has exited from traditional places and is now an anywhere activity for people at homes, cars, and flights.
Home entertainment can be considered as a part of a more complex demotic system. Domestics is the combination of technologies for improved living in the areas of safety, comfort and security management. New systems can provide consumers with personalized services tailoring to their well-being, communication and entertainment needs. In an entertainment-equipped home, a high-speed, always-on, Internet access combined with WLAN is quite common. At the same time, home theaters, game consoles and other entertainment equipments are widely adopted. The presence of a broadband network and of different entertainment equipments encourage a drastic revolution in future home entertainment promoting the design of a magic box where new exciting multimedia applications will be all available for instant enjoyment. According to [1], today, the magic box does not exist...
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(2008). In Home, in Car, in Flight Entertainment. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_86
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