Las Vegas Sun NewsSmart TVs get smarter, by just a little bit
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9 January 2013
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In the not-so-distant future, couch potatoes will be waving, pointing, swiping and tapping to make their TVs react, kind of like what Tom Cruise did in the 2002 movie "Minority Report." That's the vision of TV manufacturers as they show off "smart TVs." The sets will recognize who's watching and will try to guess what viewers want to see. They'll respond to more natural speech and will connect with your smartphone in a single touch. The idea is to make TV watching easier and more pleasant as viewers are confronted with more and more choices — from the hundreds of ...
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The mainline TV manufacturers creep along year after year -- trying to spend as little they can on R&D. The only thing that scares them is what Apple may do in the future. This prompts them to come up with bizarre ideas -- not well integrated. And stupid. For example, a smartphone will never make a good remote control. It's shaped wrong. A dedicated remote control with REAL buttons will always be superior. Everyone knows this except the likes of Samsung. Silly.