120 Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age network). Content adaptation is usually performed on the PC. Other- wise, this setup is similar to the media server option. We are not only talking about traditional computers. For instance, Microsoft and its connected gaming console, Xbox 360 Live, are aiming at a central element of the home entertainment system. For instance, the users can download TV shows and movies and view them on the TV set.45 A device ecosystem can also be built by applying distributed tech- niques, where there are no central servers per se, but all devices are equal members in a peer-to-peer network. In such an ecosystem, some storage redundancy is required in order to keep it operational, even if some devices are disconnected. A recent topic related to device ecosystems is placeshifting. Place- 46 shiftin is a technology that allows streaming video from a home TV set or PVR via a broadband Internet connection. The streamed content can then be viewed at any location where a computer display and a high-speed Internet connection are available. Images and sound from the home video equipment are transcoded and transmitted to the new viewing location over the home Internet connection. 4.9.2 Application Interoperability In addition to the number of content fi les, another challenge is that there are often several applications that need to be used to access and manage the content in different ways. Especially, considering that the sheer number of different content types is rapidly increasing, it is obvious that a myriad of applications are needed to deal with them. All these utilities have different approaches and defaults, which usually requires much effort to keep the record straight, particularly when they are expected to function together as the ingredients of one’s personal history and experiences. Besides providing support for different applications, perhaps an even more infl uential aspect is supporting content preservation through- out its lifecycle. In other words, migrating from a legacy content man- agement system to a new one, while still keeping all content accessible and not loosing any changes made to it, also requires standardized import and export functions. In the long run, smooth and reliable migration is one of the most fundamental aspects of personal content management – it ensures that 45 http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/1106-moviestv.htm 46 Compare to timeshifting, which allows viewing a recorded programming at a later stage.