Only 37% of 4S owners said they definitely wanted voice-commands on their television set, while 20% said they did not want them there. Mr. Barrett said he attributes the “limited enthusiasm” for the feature on TVs to concerns it doesn’t work well in noisy areas. “When watching TV there is so much background noise,” he said.

Apple's solution would simplify the user interface by having devices wirelessly transmit a specific interface for that device. The remote would receive this customized button layout, and dynamically present input options to the user without the clutter of a typical button-based universal remote.

The remote would also detect which appliances are within range of the controller. If, for example, a specific appliance could not be detected, the remote would gray that option out so the user would know it is not available.

The proposed invention, made public this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, was first filed in September of 2011. It is credited to Albert Vidal.

With Smart Interaction, Samsung is literally changing how you can interact with the TV. You will be able to 'listen, see and do' what you want, without ever touching a remote control. The TV will be even more intuitive to your needs.

You will be able to interact with your Samsung Smart TVs just like we interact with people, using voice, gestures and face. Take a look.

The face recognition seamlessly logs in each family member to their own Smart Hub profile. You will see your apps. Your family members will see theirs.

That's just a taste of what is possible with our Smart Interaction technology. What's more, we will open our APIs to developers so they can unleash their creativity and build apps that use motion control, voice control and face recognition

Boo-keun Yoon, president of Samsung’s consumer electronics decision kicked off the press conference with some bold pronouncements about where the company’s Smart TVs are headed. He said eventually they’ll be able to “Listen, See, and Do” without any interaction with a remote control.

The company then played a quick demo video that showed off motion control capabilities — bringing Kinect-like controls directly to the TV.

Die bei LG mitgelieferte Fernbedienung nimmt Sprachbefehle entgegen und kann mithilfe einer Speech-to-Text-Funktion diktierte Wörter in Text umwandeln. Sie hat den veröffentlichten Bildern nach zu urteilen eine vollwertige QWERTZ/QWERTY-Tastatur mit Nummernblock. Das Gerät wird vorerst nur in den USA erhältlich sein. Zum Preis gibt es bislang keine Informationen. Auch Samsung plant dieses Jahr, erste Geräte mit Googles TV-Software zu verkaufen, allerdings gibt es hierzu noch keine Informationen. Dass der Hersteller den Fernseher auf der CES vorstellt, ist ebenso unwahrscheinlich.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Monday, Nuance unveiled Dragon TV, a voice and natural language processing software aimed at makers of TVs, set-top boxes, video game consoles and other devices, as well as cable service operators. The software is designed to allow TV viewers to command their televisions using voice, rather than the traditional remote control, initiating programming queries and navigating channels by name, rather than searching for the right number. In addition, the software is designed to let users communicate via SMS and other web-enabled services, through their connected TV sets and TV devices.

Beyond disaggregation, personalization is ultimately the most powerful consumer value of digital media. My mother’s TV experience was to walk over to her TV set and turn a dial to select among three channels to satisfy her individuality. But in the next generation, no two people will receive the same recommendations from the millions of content choices available.

With Dijit, your phone is a universal remote control supporting over 200,000 devices, has content listings for every cable and satellite provider in the US and Canada, gives you search across content from both cable/satellite providers and new streaming content providers like Netflix, and has integrated and simple sharing through Facebook and Twitter.

The tablet’s sizable screen offers a mobile alternative to watching movies and shows on a traditional TV, and touch capabilities make it the ideal remote for controlling connected TVs and stereos around the house. The tablet’s advent has shaped the direction of our industry, and with it “anytime, anywhere” entertainment is now a reality. As a result, how we experience video and music has been change forever.

In terms of hardware, you’ll need Ryz Media’s infra-red emitter, known as the “Q”, which plugs into the headset jack of any iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad device to transform the device into a universal remote. The app is free, but the infra-red emitter costs $9.99 (including shipping).

I don’t think I’d choose to have BlinQ replace my TV Guide all together but it is certainly a technology I’d use in addition to the TV Guide or channel guide. Another drawback is that the BlinQ app shows popularity of TV shows by people who are using the app. I’d rather see popularity of TV shows by people I know and trust (i.e. some of my Facebook friends). And I wonder how hard it would be for a cable company to implement a similar experience in the channel guide; similar to a ‘what’s trending,’ by show, but for TV sets.

Peel makes it easy. Discover and control TV programming right from your iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod Touch®. Lose your remotes, once and for all. Quit scrolling those tiresome grid guides. See what you want, right at your own fingertips: your shows, your controls, your friends. The app is free, and Peel universal control will be in retail stores on March 8th. Find one near you.

YouTube Remote creates a virtual connection between your phone and YouTube Leanback. To ‘pair’ your phone with your Leanback screen, simply sign into YouTube Remote on your Android phone, and to YouTube Leanback on your Google TV or computer with the same YouTube account. Just like that, you've connected your powerful multi-touch Android screen with the biggest screen in your home. Once connected, you can use the rich browse and discovery interface on YouTube Remote to find and queue up videos to watch, and send them all to Leanback with a single tap. With YouTube Remote you can play, pause, skip forward and back and even control the sound volume.

OSCulator is a software that links your controllers to your music and video software. For example, with OSCulator, your Nintendo Wiimote or iPhone can talk to major MIDI sequencers or your favorite console emulator or even the Kyma sound design workstation.
OSCulator supports the OSC protocol which makes it able to be used with a wide variety of software and devices like SuperCollider, Processing, Max/MSP or the Lemur multitouch controller.

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reputation, quality news gathering, trust and credibility maintain the
franchise, something The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times
enjoy on a national level and the Washington Post and others have
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Dmitry Shapiro, founder of Veoh, told Beet.TV that there are 4 million unique users on the fast-growing video sharing site.  And, unlike most video sharing sites, which just stream Flash files, Veoh also provides downloads of high quality files via a pee

It is also about a new form of self-interest for those who say they are in the business of public relations and public information. We’re the public and now we can not only come to you directly, we can penalize you directly when you lie to us.

he challenge for media companies is to find the right balance between participation and control, outsourcing and editorial guidance, openness and order.

The walls between content creation and commerce are also falling away, as we’ve seen with everyth

Fake Sharing Sites: YouTube gives users very cool code to either “embed” content on other sites, or to effectively send links of content to other sites. But never does the system give users an easy way to actually get the content someone else has uplo

At Facebook, MySpace and NBC are users “in control,” or are users being controlled by multi-million dollar corporate brand messages? Far from being in control, YouTubers were required to create content about NBC, for NBC and promoting NBC.

Media companies are mostly vertical. They produce shows (or control the independant companies that do), market them, deliver them, sell ads, everything that touches their pipe, soup to nuts, they do.valuable virtual pipes - virtual media

Consumer experiences are more distributed than ever. Consumers are willing (and able) to engage with your brand much more deeply than before. Consumers will engage in conversations about your brand whether you like it or not.

Web 2.0 works great as an ideology, but maybe not so great as the basis for a media economy. Less control = less profit.Why did Google buy YouTube? Because they have to own it to control it, and they need to control it in order to monetize it.

The key to success in media today and in the future is to recognize that we, the people, formerly known as the audience, are in control. Artists, too, now have more control. Middlemen don’t. Middlemen don’t own content, software, creativity, or art.

openness is required to leverage the network effect of the Web and harness the power of socially-connected users, but control is required to get a share of any money that changes hands.but the truth is that nobody has demonstrated yet how to maximize prof

the community is in control. Das Zeigt das Facebook Beispiel bei dem die User in Massen ein neues Feature ablehnen, das ihrer Meinung nach ihre Privatsphäre beeinträchtitgt und sie zu Gläsern macht.