[opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400

  • From: "Brian Park" <floman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:22:37 -0500

The upcoming Nintendo DS would make a very nice universal remote for home
theater with the right software module. Voice recognition, secondary touch
screen, wireless. The primary screen could display what you want to see.
Cheaper than Pinto.

Anyone working on this?

http://www.nintendo.com/ds/index.jsp

bp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400


> At 7:51 PM -0400 10/24/04, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> >You certainly could hold an infrared-connected
> >keyboard and mouse on your lap for real web
> >browsing on your HDTV set, but to pretend that
> >this will be how HDTVs and home theater
> >installations will get used *predominantly* is
> >just plain silly.
> >
>
> Yup. it is more likely that you will use a portable digital media
> appliance to deal with this stuff. It could be a laptop computer, or
> a small touch screen pad. But this misses the point.
>
> We are not talking about writing e-mails and doing other personal
> productivity tasks on the big screen. The key will be in configuring
> your TV to be user friendly and personalized. You will create a
> graphical user interface that is optimized for the big screen; one
> that is customized for the resources available to that screen. One
> that is customized for the way you want to watch TV. It is just as
> likely that you will configure this display from a PC as from a
> remote control.
>
> It's really not that difficult to get it right...
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
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