When we talk about the “second screen”, typically one would think of using your phone/tablet/laptop while watching a TV. At CES 2024 we are seeing a second screen right next to the first screen: informational screens below your TV. LG […]
I was watching Project Runway on Bravo recently and noticed they were using QR codes. As I discovered in my previous role, awareness of these codes and how to use them rose markedly during the pandemic. They are great for
Yesterday I was watching a show with a friend and I tried to manually track it in Trakt – but it wasn’t there! That is, the show was there but the 2 most recent seasons were missing. I found the
The living room has an interesting topology for multimodal interaction. Years ago, you got up and turned the dial directly on the TV. The advent of the remote control allowed you to do that from your seat. Even up to
Part of the “Who.Where.What?” feature we initially launched at CES 2020 was voice commands for shopping the scene. This video gives a sense of what is possible with these commands. A lot of care was taken in curating a list
Looking around the living room, I can’t help but notice that the TV remote is a bit awkward: they all have different appearances and pretty much never fit in with the room’s decor. Of course, there have been attempts to
One of those super-annoying things about 3D TVs for the home is the eyewear. It’s bad enough that you have to wear anything special at all to get the 3D effect, but the dirty truth is that there is no
Logitech surveyed people to find out where they found their lost remote controls: Wow, somebody has the munchies!
“House of Cards” is unique, as it is the first exclusive TV series to originate on Netflix. Typically, we license TV shows the season after they run on a broadcast network or cable channel and occasionally, we have episodes from
It looks like this TV metadata thing is catching-on. Yay for supplementary information!
