History of TV:
Television one of the great telecommunication medium which has shown its face in 1920 `s as just a device that is used to transmit and receive image, has now modernized itself along with the years and become a part of our life. Believe it or not it has taken a lot of changes in the past half a decade only. You may see that plasma TV made its appearance to public in 1997 and took a big change on 2006 and become a part of our home, later came the LCD TV on 2007 and followed by LED TV’s in 2009 which had its main concentration on the way it looks and a little concentrated over functionality.
But now the time has come for the TV to make up with features, Due to the upcoming of PC`S with similar features peoples started to move towards it. But still TV is being a part of home where PC is not available. It seems many commercial guys have seen it; they have opened their eyes to TV in the name of interactive television which has the capability of incorporating the features of TV with telecommunication (Video Conferencing), Internet and many more.
Concept:
Interactive TV is nothing but a TV which has the ability to interact with the user which may be offline or online (anyway I’m going to discuss about the online way only, but I will give a short introduction). In offline mode the content is downloaded to TV and an interactive mode is made. As we would have seen in DVD’s to save a particular scene and so.
The hot topic for this year is the online interactive TV which has been given by big providers like Apple TV, Hulu, Roku and Orb. Now two big providers are getting into market the great search engine master Google with Google TV and network giant CISCO by the name of UMI. Even though their concentration of areas are different in the end they are going to do the same thing transfer your HD TV to a video conferencing device, a recordable TV, connect it to internet to buy and sell. In short all the functionalities of pc.
CISCO UMI:
"Bringing Family and Friends Together at the Touch of a Button"
With the help of a HD television, broadband connection and a device from CISCO called UMI which is going to make its appearance by the end of this month we can get the UMI up which concentrates on teleconferencing only for now. By using this we can make high definition video calls with the help of TV itself. This UMI device is going to cost around 26,000 INR and the service to make video calls is going to cost 1,100 INR/PM.
For making professional meetings and on telemedicine this may work great but not for normal video calls, I think so with this big rate.
GOOGLE TV:
"There's more on TV than television"
The search engine master has came up with similar tool but capable of doing more than that and for free. (Even though if you are not having internet enabled TV you must get a device).Logitech has came up with a device called REVUE which will help us connect without TV with internet and increase its capabilities to add more accessories and so.
We will use this device REVUE to connect our TV to internet and we will be using a Logitech TV cam (optional) to make video conferencing possible. This REVUE tool is going to cost 13,300 INR and the TV cam is going to cost 3,300 INR. Even though the initial cost is going to be little high just see what you are going to get from this
--The web is now a channel
--Apps for your TV
We can now use apps even in our TV like we use to use in mobile.
--Your phone = remote control
You may use an android or iphone as a remote control to operate the TV. Apps are available for java and Symbian phone to convert it to a remote (must have IR).
--Fling a video to your television
You may share anything which you like in your mobile by just flinging.
--Video on Demand, YouTube for Google TV(HD),Screen Sharing(watch and browse simultaneously),create playlist, separate homepage, record streaming videos over AIR or dish TV, Online music library, online updates for all the above and many more.
