<p>I don't agree that sony and phillips have been doing solutions like this.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Anyway these are just my opinions and it is obviously a huge amount of work...</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On 10 Nov 2010 04:29, "Greg Oliver" <<a href="mailto:oliver.greg@gmail.com">oliver.greg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Matt Emmott <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>><br>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at ...</font></p>Sony and Phillips have been doing this for quite a while. Maybe<br>
others? Not graphics per se, but 2-way comms..<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> 2) A truly dynamic interface - I think MythMote on my iPod changes its<br>> available control button...</font></p>The only thing I can instantly think of that would probably gain<br>
instant traction is to make a touch-screen remote have feelable<br>
buttons.<br>
<br>
I have several high end remotes that will almost wash the dishes if I<br>
tell them to, but honestly I prefer the cheaper reomtes with buttons.<br>
Having no touch feedback on a touchscreen remote is a huge drawback.<br>
Granted, I can do much more sophisticated things with them, but for<br>
usual TV items, I will always grab a remote with buttons over a remote<br>
with a touchscreen.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> 4) A nice front-end to a web interface that makes scheduling recordings or<br>> setting up playlists...</font></p>It is already possible.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> 5) Use of the existing technology - Why isn't there a bluetooth proximity<br>> detector? Pause the s...</font></p>There are a lot of thees already. Search for voip and bluetooth..<br>
The same techniques can be applied...<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>> I haven't paid much attention to Google TV yet. I'm heavily invested in<br>> MythTV and Boxee (My Bo...</font></p>I think everything you described is possible with today's feature sets.<br>
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