Comments on: Wave buh-bye to your remote control

By: thattvshow

thattvshow — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:47:40 +0000

I agree.
I’d only switch to it if it were as affordable as remotes, and that’s very unlikely.

By: konn

konn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:45:19 +0000

We will still be controlling our televisions remotely, but with hand gestures. I don’t know.. I think I’d still prefer using a ‘remote’ than waving my hands all over the room - more efficient.

Hand/foot gestures are better suited for gaming purposes, IMO.

By: Brock

Brock — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:50:37 +0000

Hmmm, if you’ve spent any time studying remotes and people you’ll know that there are often multiple people watching TV at once. The remote helps to disambiguate viewers from each other and grant agency to the remote-holder. Once that is gone, you’ll see mayhem in the living room.

Oh, and people are going to freak over a camera watching them in their living room, especially if it is connected to their cable box. People already consider telcos and cable/sat big brother.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:05:09 +0000

I think “Off” would be more appropriate…

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:29:51 +0000

Yeah the middle finger will be used for “mute” at least during talking-heads shows.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:25:01 +0000

Of course I have a “regular” tv, but what sends me scrambling for the right remote is the ability to switch the input device. I can power-up things and switch channels with all of my remotes (I believe), but my regular tv needs me to tell it that I’m switching away from television programming.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:57:17 +0000

I wonder if they’ll program a command for the middle finger.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:13:48 +0000

So when can we expect to see losthand dot com as a CNAME for this site?