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[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't agree that sony and phillips have been doing solutions like this.

Well, my (older than 10 years) Sony remote is 2-way with gui feedback
on the remote.  It will display current playing station, as well as
pull the settings from the receiver for current Speaker / EQ settings,
so the realtime data on the remote is what the receiver is currently
provisioned for.  Granted it is not hi-res by any means, but the
basics are there.  The latest generation Prontos do full screen gui
with device feedback..  The only thing bad about the sony remote was
at certain points deep into a configuration menu that relied on the
receiver's settings being transmitted to the remote, it could hang if
you left IR range.

> We are talking about moving the entire osd onto a remote tablet. It would
> need to be a compromise in fact depending on whether there are other people
> around to look at what's on and whether choosing what to watch is a social
> interaction or a single persons choice.
>
> I don't think that a phone is the right device either. Something a little
> larger like a nokia n8xx or n900, a dell streak or something bigger like an
> ipad is really going to be needed to make this work.

After having had a gamut of remotes, I can in fact say I will never
own another flat-screen touch remote without hard buttons - just my
$.02

> The user should ideally be able to move playback from the tv to the "tablet
> remote" walk into a different room and move it to the tv in that room in a
> pretty seamless manner.... a bit like linuxmce manages with mythtv and
> bluetooth proximity.
>
> Anyway these are just my opinions and it is obviously a huge amount of
> work...
>
> R
>
> On 10 Nov 2010 04:29, "Greg Oliver" <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at ...
>
> Sony and Phillips have been doing this for quite a while.  Maybe
> others?  Not graphics per se, but 2-way comms..
>
>> 2) A truly dynamic interface - I think MythMote on my iPod changes its
>> available control button...
>
> The only thing I can instantly think of that would probably gain
> instant traction is to make a touch-screen remote have feelable
> buttons.
>
> I have several high end remotes that will almost wash the dishes if I
> tell them to, but honestly I prefer the cheaper reomtes with buttons.
> Having no touch feedback on a touchscreen remote is a huge drawback.
> Granted, I can do much more sophisticated things with them, but for
> usual TV items, I will always grab a remote with buttons over a remote
> with a touchscreen.
>
>> 4) A nice front-end to a web interface that makes scheduling recordings or
>> setting up playlists...
>
> It is already possible.
>
>> 5) Use of the existing technology - Why isn't there a bluetooth proximity
>> detector? Pause the s...
>
> There are a lot of thees already.  Search for voip and bluetooth..
> The same techniques can be applied...
>
>> I haven't paid much attention to Google TV yet. I'm heavily invested in
>> MythTV and Boxee (My Bo...
>
> I think everything you described is possible with today's feature sets.
>
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