In internet television, mobile phones can be a video terminal to see directly, but also can be projected into the television screen or computer screen. Does it make sense to do a mobile TV remote control?
First of all, the remote is a cool thing. Human beings need this thing from the heart. Follow your heart, you should believe that the remote has a future. We have imagined many remote control scenarios in the home, such as remote control window, pull curtains, switch air-conditioning, accidentally, tea table on the full range of remote control. Some people say that these things are not used, as long as the home is intelligent, the room can be based on the situation, to provide automated solutions: a door, the lights opened;
But think about it, this life is also a problem. All automation, intelligence is not necessarily true to your mind, people still want to control. In the home situation, better control or use the remote. Of course the number of remote control can not be too much, or occasionally with air-conditioning remote control when mobile phone to go to work is very troublesome.
Mobile phone to do remote control, the problem is not a good solution?
Many of the devices in the family need remote control, but not many times. The TV's remote control is the most frequently used. No wonder some people say that TV channel competition is remote control war, and people have studied ordinary viewers in the process of changing, 8 seconds to decide to see a program, do not see a channel, 8 seconds of the remote control by the gap became the TV channel operator's heart misfortune.
In the smartphone age, people think of a very simple way to connect with a traditional TV--an infrared launcher via an audio port, and a remote TV with a mobile phone after a simple pair of code. But in daily life, people rarely go to plug in the device. As a result, some people began to do without external devices, the United States Peel the remote devices built in Samsung and HTC mobile phones, but also with the main TV manufacturers, the remote control device is also built into the television. So you buy a TV, you can use the phone to remote control it. You can buy a mobile phone that has a remote design, or a remote TV. It is said that the application of installation in North America has reached 25 million.
Can the TV remote control do that? No, when it comes to business models, some people don't like it. Instead of simply making remote control the remote, they play with the business opportunities behind the remote control. Some people in the remote control, thinking of the cloud of the program library, thinking of their own control of the Electronic Program menu (EPG), and the data and the use of remote control data combined, there may be a big deal, many startups are working on this.
When Jobs studied Apple TV, he made a remote control of the minimalist button. It is also just infrared remote control, but he did a very aesthetic and play a sense, won the market acclaim. It has been imagined that the iphone 7 looks like a TV remote. Can you make a phone with a remote sense? In fact, smartphone manufacturers in the age, professional classification of users should be classified for their use. A friend who makes a home for the elderly is very much hope that the mobile phone can remote control television, but also remote control of his elderly service center. Elderly people watching TV, sudden discomfort, is everywhere to find the phone number or a button for help? These things really have an application scenario.
Human has developed voice control, gesture control, body sense control and other technologies, but the small remote control embodies the human desire, in the hands of a plaything, control of the Great Thousand Society, is not dispensable, but must. In any case, advanced technical solutions should give this plaything more interesting, simpler and smarter play.