It Times review-you lose the TV as a tablet

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Samsung confirmed that it would include LTE chips on television, and that At&t was also deploying LTE broadcast video networks, which meant that future TV users ' interactions and content would be more targeted, more accurate and more socially interactive.

The battle for the living room was more and more raging. In this September, millet, Skyworth, Ali, TCL, Archie Art, Music vision, with the continent electronics ... Whether the traditional manufacturers or Internet enterprises, playing the banner of cooperation or to prepare a canoe or even, all announced to the world, "the REAL Internet TV!" But is the real internet TV coming?

Strictly speaking, the first real blow to the Internet television (or intelligent television) to enter the horn of the enterprise, is Lenovo. At CES in 2012, Lenovo released the world's first TV set running Android 4.0. By a traditional PC maker, it's a question of what Internet TV is trying to answer: whether it's a TV or a big tablet in the future? The problem Lenovo doesn't seem to have answered well from sales.

Interestingly, internet companies in the face of this problem, there are different answers: Le View said to "subvert" the industry, Archie Art smiled, "tens of thousands of sales can subvert more than 40 million market?" We have to cooperate. "But whether" subversive "or" collaborators ", the launch of the Internet TV is still the PC, mobile phone content: video, applications, etc." fill "into the TV, change what? No.

Internet TV is not destined to be a big tablet computer. Touch, for television in the living room, is not a good way of human-computer interaction. Just as Jobs used the iphone's touch screen to change the smartphone industry, television, too, needed a revolutionary change in the way it interacted.

In the Black Mirror, life in the virtual world of Bing face of the TV wall, can be easily manipulated by hand gestures, and change into a variety of virtual scenes, each person in front of the television set in the virtual space-"talent conference" by a virtual character instead, but the action expression entirely from the audience in front of the television, This may be the future of network television application of a scene: television, need must be space and distance, and users on this basis of interaction.

In the current conceivable space, such as Samsung S4 gesture induction, should be the best way to interact with television, do not have to go to the television, but the same can reach the purpose of touch screen. However, the use of gesture-induced intelligent television, most can be completed on, off, zoom, shrink and other simple actions, you want to play the car? Oh, this is too much difficulty. Or, what smart TV needs is not just gesture sensing, but a full range of sensors, where the owner allows the voice, facial expressions, gestures, eyes, and even body temperature to be the object of the induction, and then analyze what the owner needs.

Of course, the remote control is still the best companion for television, and it is the most available article for Internet TV makers before the perfect interactive approach emerges.

Traditional remote controls are mostly connected by infrared and TV, while several new internet TVs are joined by Bluetooth and 2.4G Wireless. This is like the TV and remote control between the channel from the province to upgrade to the highway, such as interactive games, body sense, such as large amount of data transmission can be completed, but also allow the remote function has a larger expansion space.

Another goal should be to make the remote control smaller. Millet TV, Tcl Archie Art Television in the remote control of the article, is to let live and on-demand integration, with a remote control of all the boxes. This is really a "hard demand", but live resources are currently controlled in the hands of local radio and television operators, large and small hundreds of scattered throughout the country, a remote control to do things may be a lock of the negotiations and matching, and similar cooperation, there may be a variety of variables, not all local users can get the same quality experience.

At&t is doing a thing that makes internet TV interactivity have a deeper meaning. Samsung recently confirmed in the United States that it will add 4G chips to the TV, and At&t is deploying the LTE broadcast video network. The so-called LTE broadcast video network means that LTE can turn each of its base stations into a transmitter tower, each base station can use its spectrum to play different content, of course, the same base station coverage users receive the same information. This does not mean that TV can use the mobile network to surf the internet, it is more likely to make the future of television interaction and content playback, more small, more accurate, more social.

In fact, for the Internet TV companies Now, "occupy the Living room" is an excessive ambition. The real Internet TV, need to change not only television itself, but the entire Internet industry, communications industry, radio and television industry, the ecological relationship, as well as the resulting changes in people's lifestyles. The power of one's own is hard to overturn.