Remote Control revolution?

Shen Yin's microblog is displayed on the subway station after work. There are two items:

 

# Today's question # Why can't the TV remote control revolution? I often worry about consumer electronics manufacturers who call innovation every day in China. They don't need to worry about it. Remote control is very important, and there has been no major change in the past 20 years. It is not intended for users. If Internet TV is in the future, will the remote control evolve into an itouch, making the Internet more accessible and flexible? What changes do you think can be made? Is it still Apple's revolution?

 

Traditional remote control only adapts to one-way viewing mode, but users will be more active in the future. TV is a super-large ipad capable of connecting networks and 3d, and the remote control becomes a controller. Let's look at the number of articles that it vendors have made in man-machine interaction over the past few years to see how stupid they are. If you want to break the status quo, contact @ Entrepreneur Magazine.

 

I tried to discuss this issue.

 

First, TV manufacturers are not stupid. Why is remote control not revolutionary? Why is there no major change in the past 20 years?

 

The revolution in remote control may increase hardware costs. The traditional TV industry is a low-profit manufacturing industry, with no venture capital. In terms of hardware design, the use of components will compete for money.

 

If you do not know about the TV set, refer to the set-top box. A sd satellite TV set-top box with PVR functions, most of which is a 2 M flash storage space, 8 m ~ 16 M memory, remote control and television similar, about 50 buttons, plus or minus 10. How much revolution can this space make?

 

Complicated? Complex: I always feel overwhelmed when holding a long Remote Control with over 50 buttons. However, the analysis of key functions finds that removing any button will complicate the operation of a function. In this article, I will make a survey: Do you want many buttons on the remote control, and the buttons have a relatively simple function? Or are there few buttons, but each button has many functions?

 

More is the investment in design and R & D. Not to mention Chinese consumer electronics manufacturers, or set-top boxes, DREAMBOX, and South Korea's top-notch manufacturers, as industry leaders, there is no revolutionary remote control. If you are interested, google their images.

 

The two TVs in the mall have almost the same functions, the same size, and two brands of the same grade, one of which is several hundred more expensive than the other, because its UI operations are more flexible and convenient. Which one is better?

 

Unlike mobile phones, MP3, MP4, IPOD, ITOUCH, And I, most of the time I bought a TV is watching TV, and I almost only use the remote control's up/down key to turn on the keyboard and watch back key, I won't take the remote control into detail. How many people will be willing to pay the hundreds more?

 

It's not that they are stupid, don't worry about users.

 

Since there has not been any change over the past 20 years, it may be that there is no need for any change.

 

Yes, there will be a big difference in the future. The Internet, on-demand videos, and data goes up and down, and interactions will increase dramatically. With the remote control, you can swing your control over the screen and look forward to the rapid arrival of the revolution, maybe it's really APPLE's revolution. I 've been wondering what it's like to use apple TV's remote control. Do I use a soft keyboard to input numbers?