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| Roedy Green |
 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:47 pm |
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There are 5 ideas I would like to see in a TV/VCR remote. Please pass
them on to anyone who might be able to get them implemented.
1. finder button. If you misplace the remote, you press a button on
the console that makes the remote make a noise and flash as LED to
help you find it. Ideally it should work without line of sight --
fallen under a cushion or in the fridge. What would be the cheapest
technology to implement that?
2. Late at night one by one the channels turn to informercials. It
would nice if you could press a button to take a channel off the
channel surfer cycle until the next 30 minute interval. You could also
use it to help decide on a show, gradually whittling out channels.
Then you could hop between three shows, rapidly finding the others
during commercials, with no difficultly getting back to your original
show.
3. The schedule displays provided by the cable company are extremely
slow. I would like to be able to scan forward and back very rapidly
using the remote. Presumably this would require the cable company
digitally encoding the information.
4. I would like to sort the channels in order by "goodness". That way
I can channel surf primarily in the best channels, only going to the
less promising in a drought.
5. I would like to press a button that would overlay a display that
told me the name of the show, particularly the name of a movie/video I
am watching, and ideally even the name of the person currently on
screen. (This presumably would require encoding information in the
broadcast.)
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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green, http://mindprod.com
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| jasen |
| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:21 am |
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On 2007-01-05, Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
Quote: There are 5 ideas I would like to see in a TV/VCR remote. Please pass
them on to anyone who might be able to get them implemented.
1. finder button. If you misplace the remote, you press a button on
the console that makes the remote make a noise and flash as LED to
help you find it. Ideally it should work without line of sight --
fallen under a cushion or in the fridge. What would be the cheapest
technology to implement that?
sonic. same as those whistle key ring finders.
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Bye.
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| CWatters |
| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:51 am |
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"Roedy Green" <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:7parp21p8kaoqm6j4skn3j70rro5ih1629@4ax.com...
Quote: There are 5 ideas I would like to see in a TV/VCR remote.
Most could not be done in the remote.. see below.
Please pass
Quote: them on to anyone who might be able to get them implemented.
1. finder button. If you misplace the remote, you press a button on
the console that makes the remote make a noise and flash as LED to
help you find it.
That requires a wireless link from the TV/STB to the remote. Not too hard
if you can get manufacturers to agree on a standard - that would be the
tricky part.
Quote: 2. Late at night one by one the channels turn to informercials. It
would nice if you could press a button to take a channel off the
channel surfer cycle until the next 30 minute interval.
That would need to be a function of the EPG in the TV/STB not the remote.
Quote: 3. The schedule displays provided by the cable company are extremely
slow. I would like to be able to scan forward and back very rapidly
using the remote. Presumably this would require the cable company
digitally encoding the information.
That could be fixed by a cache in the TV/STB not the remote.
Quote: 4. I would like to sort the channels in order by "goodness". That way
I can channel surf primarily in the best channels, only going to the
less promising in a drought.
That could be done in the remote but would be easier in the EPG in the
TV/STB.
Quote: 5. I would like to press a button that would overlay a display that
told me the name of the show, particularly the name of a movie/video I
am watching,
That would need to be a function of the EPG in the TV/STB not the remote.
You can get that on Sky in the UK. |
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| Roedy Green |
| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:00 am |
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:51:40 -0000, "CWatters"
<colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :
Quote: 2. Late at night one by one the channels turn to informercials. It
would nice if you could press a button to take a channel off the
channel surfer cycle until the next 30 minute interval.
That would need to be a function of the EPG in the TV/STB not the remote.
Yes, the intelligence would be in the set. You would control it with
the remote. Even channel changing is handled by the set, not the
remote. The only thing the remote every does is emit a coded signal
to tell the TV which button was pressed.
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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green, http://mindprod.com
Priorities: Prevent global climate destabilisation. End both wars. Prepare for oil shortages. |
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| Zak |
| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:39 pm |
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Roedy Green wrote:
Quote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:51:40 -0000, "CWatters"
colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :
2. Late at night one by one the channels turn to informercials. It
would nice if you could press a button to take a channel off the
channel surfer cycle until the next 30 minute interval.
That would need to be a function of the EPG in the TV/STB not the remote.
Yes, the intelligence would be in the set. You would control it with
the remote. Even channel changing is handled by the set, not the
remote. The only thing the remote every does is emit a coded signal
to tell the TV which button was pressed.
It CAN be done in the remote which makes this a great aftermarket
product. Just have the remote send '12' instead of 'up' to the set.
When teh remote knows the channel it can skip it after the user presses
the 'awful programming' button.
It would not be perfect (bit slower) but could work. Handy feature.
Maybe something for the dreambox hackers out there?
Thomas |
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