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Changes in what the “TV” is and how it will be used — helpful, informative article by A. Baxi

On 04/23/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, future, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, by Daniel Christian
The evolution of a couch potato: How TV and viewers are changing — from hindustantimes.com by Abhishek Baxi

Section headings:

  • Remote controls are dead
  • Let’s bring social in
  • There’s an app for it
  • Viewer is the king

Excerpt:

The future of TV will be based on experiences to engage, entertain, and activate viewers stemming from creativity, imagination, and innovations in technology. While traditionally, TV has been a medium of consumption, the Web experience via PC, mobile, or stand-alone devices, has also brought in real-time engagement. While many call it the death of traditional TV industry, it might just be the factor which brings growth.
Addendum/also see:
  • Luminous Design – the Future of Smart TV — from  innovationexcellence.com
    What is the future of Smart TV? How to create a luminous design that will enlighten TV experience across devices, and make it really consistently Smart? Who could tell us the way better than Dale Herigstad? Dale is Chief Interaction Officer at Possible, and an internationally recognized designer and thought leader on the future of interactive and “many-screen” rich media interfaces.
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Updating the second screen ecosystem infographic

On 04/16/2012, in Daniel S. Christian, educational games / serious games, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, mirroring and/or multiple devices, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, television, trends, by Daniel Christian

Updating the second screen ecosystem infographic — from digitalvideospace.blogspot.com

From DSC:

  • Watch this space to see how what I call Learning from the Living Room develops! 
  • It will be interesting to watch how educational gaming dovetails into this as well.

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My reflections on “Flick content from your phone to your TV with a single swipe” [Hutchings]

On 03/30/2012, in blended learning, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, emerging technologies, ideas, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

Flick content from your phone to your TV with a single swipe [Video] — from PSFK by Emma Hutchings

Excerpt:

Panasonic have recently added the Media Flick function to the Viera Remote Android app, which allows content to be shared between a smartphone and a TV with just the swipe of a finger.

From DSC:
  • What if students could quickly do this in class — without interrupting the flow of the class —  and transfer a paper they wrote, or a song they composed, or a website they found, etc., up to the main “screen” to “play” it for the rest of the class?
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  • What if faculty could just as quickly send files/items to students’ devices?
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  • And/or, what if such gestures quickly sent such files up to a cloud-based repository for that course, accessible 24x7x365?

 

Right now, Apple and other vendors need to work out the wireless network (and related) issues to make this a more feasible idea for an entire campus to implement this. 

But, it would sure be nice!  🙂

 

 

 

 

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Microsoft puts more TV in the living room via the Xbox

On 03/29/2012, in 21st century, convergence, future, future of higher education, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, Microsoft, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

Computers in the living room: Xbox has never been a game system — from wired.com by Tim Carmody

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Excerpt:

TV is changing. The idea of what  “TV” is,  is changing. As technology marches onwards it will continue to change consumer behavioral patterns. It will continue to change the nature of the living room. To think otherwise is to be left behind.

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The potential of cloud-based education marketplaces [Christian]

On 03/27/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, content development, aggregation, repositories, convergence, corporate / business world, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, emerging technologies, homeschooling/homeschoolers, innovation, internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, marketing/social marketing, mirroring and/or multiple devices, reinvent, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, staying relevant, streams of content, technologies for your home, trends, by Daniel Christian

The potential of cloud-based education marketplaces — from evoLLLution.com (LifeLong Learning) by Daniel Christian; PDF-based version here

Excerpt:

Such organizations are being impacted by a variety of emerging technologies and trends – two of which I want to highlight here are:

  • Online-based marketplaces – as hosted on “the cloud”
  • The convergence of the television, telephone, and the computer

One of the powerful things that the Internet provides is online-based marketplaces. Such exchanges connect buyers with sellers and vice versa. You see this occurring with offerings like Craig’s List, e-Bay, PaperBackSwap.com, and others.

 

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Smart/connected TV-related items

On 03/23/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, personalized/customized learning, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

Smart TV — from mobile88.com by Tan Ming Sin

Excerpt:

A Smart TV is simply a device that aggregates services and displays them on a screen. Satellite channels are an example of one such service. At this point of time, different manufacturers make different Smart TVs with different services.

100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016 — from latimesblogs.latimes.com by Dawn Chmielewski

Excerpt:

Big-screen TVs are displayed by Panasonic at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Internet connectivity is becoming a more important feature of TVs, a new report says.
Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it.

A new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs with Internet content by 2016. These new hybrid devices, capable of displaying interactive content related to TV shows, are a bid to hold the viewer’s attention in a device-cluttered world.

“The TV people figured out nobody’s just watching TV anymore,” said Gerry Kaufhold, NPD In-Stat’s digital entertainment research director. “They’re watching TV with a tablet or a smartphone or a laptop in their hands. They’ve completely lost control.”

New Smart TVs will create new opportunities for interactivity — from catalogs.infocommiq.com

Excerpt:

Beyond voice interaction with smart TVs, what other benefits might this new generation of televisions bring to digital signage interactivity? Perhaps, these TVs will lead to easier syncing with personal smart phones and tablets offering the public interactive takeaways from the sign. Or, they might make it possible to migrate the digital signage experience from outside the home into the living room -sort of an offshoot of the TV Everywhere concept being promoted these days by pay TV operators, such as cable TV companies.

Social TV all about sharing: Viewers using laptops, iPhone to engage online during favorite shows — from KansasCity.com by Johnny Diaz, Sun Sentinel

Excerpt:

What can I do tonight: watch TV or surf Facebook? Increasingly, people are doing both simultaneously. And checking their email. And interacting with actors or news anchors.

Patent details Apple’s ideas for universal TV remote — from PCMag.com by Angela Moscaritolo

Retro Apple TV

Gravity R&D powers personalized TV recommendations for Canadian telco — from techcrunch.com by NatashaStarkell

Americans now watch more online movies than DVDs — from by Julianne Pepitone

The 2012 Apple TV is more than just a speed bump [review] — from cultofmac.com by Alex Kahney

The television set-top box will die in 2012 — from by William Thompson

Smart TV Movie Streaming To Replace Video Disc & Blu-ray — from smarthouse.com.au by David Richards
As Samsung, Panasonic and LG get set to launch a new range of TVs in Australia that will deliver a multitude of new content services that include Foxtel, Blockbuster movies and Telstra Movies, new research suggests that consumers will exceed digital video disc and Blu-ray use by downloading movies direct to their TV.

Shift to digital television seen happening by ‘16 — from the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Paolo G. Montecillo
Industry players await decision on PH standard

Excerpt:

MANILA, Philippines—The shift to digital TV broadcasting technology in the country, which would result in better services for millions of households, can still be completed before the end of the Aquino administration, a top government official said.

Once the standard to be used for digital TV in the country is chosen with finality, the shutting off of inefficient analogue signals could take just three years, Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) Deputy Executive Director Monchito Ibrahim said. This is shorter than the previously projected five years.

One Screen To Rule Them All — from techcrunch.com by Jay Fulcher

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Items re: “Learning from the Living Room”

On 03/09/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future of higher education, game-changing environment, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), Learning from the Living [Class] Room, marketplaces, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, online media, online tutoring, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, student-related, technologies for your home, transmedia, trends, using teams, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Here are some items related to what I call “Learning from the Living Room” — a trend that continues to develop that involves:

  • Using high-end, personalized, multimedia-based, interactive, team-created content — packed with new reporting tools for better diagnostics/learning analytics — available via a cloud-based “education store”/marketplace/exchange
  • Web-accessible content that’s available 24x7x365
  • The power of social networks/learning
  • Riding the wave of the massive convergence of the computer, the telephone, and the television.

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Smarter TV: Living room as digital hub from Samsung and Microsoft to Apple and Google — from wired.com by Tim Carmody
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
  • In the future, the living room will replace the home office as most households’ home for the stationary personal computer. Instead of printers and mice and other corded accessories, networked appliances and post-PC machines share data with one another and with the cloud. Play and productivity both become decentered; gaming and entertainment might be on a tablet or a television, with recipes at the refrigerator, a shopping list for the smartphone, and an instructional video on the television set. All of these experiences will be coherent, continuous and contextual. And like the personal computer at the height of Pax Wintel, the living room will be a platform characterized by triumphant pluralism.“The thing about the living room is that it’s universal; everyone in the household uses it,” Samsung VP Eric Anderson told me at today’s event. “We know that we’re not going to capture every single member of the household. In my family, my wife and my daughter are Apple, me and my sons are Android,” he noted, pointing out that the majority of devices introduced today can interact with either mobile platform.

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The modern mechanics of app stores: today, tomorrow and connected TV — from guardian.co.uk by Dean Johnson

Excerpt:

What’s next for app stores?
It’s time for each platform to up its game – smart TVs are coming. The small and medium screen experience will shortly be translated to the bigger screen as connectivity and discoverability takes on even greater importance.

Google and Apple will further interweave themselves into our daily lives as iOS and Android seamlessly combine our smartphones and tablets with our new smartTVs. Electronic Program Guides (EPGs) and the programmes themselves will suggest related content, from apps to music to film to books. This must all be presented in an approachable, then browsable manner to encourage additional discovery.

The quest for the perfect meta-data will become increasingly important and voice commands will need to deliver the best search results with the minimum of fuss. This time next year, the battle of the app stores will be fought on the move, on the desktop and on the living room wall.

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Samsung Launches Smart TVs With Gestures, Voice Control — from by Douglas Perry

Excerpt:

A Kinect-like feature is made possible via camera and microphone integration that comes standard with the LED ES7500, LED ES8000 and Plasma E8000 models. According to Samsung, consumers can launch apps such as Facebook or YouTube, or search the web via voice commands. Waving the hand will move the cursor and select links. The TVs integrate a Samsung dual-core processor as well as a new Webkit-based web browser to improve overall performance. The high-end 7500 and 8000 TVs ship with a remote with an integrated touchscreen. A wireless keyboard that is compatible with Samsung’s TVs as well as the Galaxy Tab tablet is sold as an option.

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New TV experiences through companion apps — from moxie pulse

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Apple announces a new iPad, an upgraded Apple TV, and new software for the iPad

On 03/07/2012, in Apple, convergence, digital audio, digital photography, digital video, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, by Daniel Christian

Apple announces iPad 3, upgrades to Apple TV, new software – March 7, 2012
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Apple announces iPad 3, upgrades to Apple TV, new software - March 7, 2012

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A potential item for Smart Classrooms: ReflectionApp, AirServerApp, & mirroring devices

On 03/06/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, education technology, emerging technologies, mirroring and/or multiple devices, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, trends, by Daniel Christian
Reflection Mirrors iOS Devices on the Mac –– from  tidbits.com by Jeff Carlson ; my thanks to Mr. Lucas Moore at Calvin College for the heads up on this item
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Reflection on the ReflectionApp and the AirServerApp and Apple TV — from iPad and Technology in Music Education by Paul Shimmons
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A Crystal Lake science class uses iPads instead of notebooks and pencils.
(Peter Parks, Getty-AFP photo / February 22, 2012)

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Some recent items relating to “learning from the living room” & convergence

On 02/23/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital video, India, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, online learning, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, television, trends, by Daniel Christian

Google to Launch TV Service — from Mashable.com by Todd Wasserman

100 million Americans watch online video every day — from sitetrail.com by Anthony West

How to build 50,000 new colleges — from Forbes.com by Michael Horn

Excerpt (with emphasis by DSC):

What this points to is disruption using the technology enabler of online learning. As the article says, “This means that India is not just trying to build thousands of American-style campuses with neat quads. Many of its new schools will be virtual, for-profit, and integrated closely with workplaces. It may, in fact, end up pushing the concept of online education further than any other country. As a result, what India comes up with will not only affect its economic competitiveness in the 21st century. It may become a petri dish for how to build an educational system in the Information Age.”

There is another dynamic pushing India to innovate in and improve online learning in some dramatic ways. According to the article, new schools face shortages of land and instructors. As a result of the first, constructing big campuses to fill the education gap is likely a non-starter. Online learning is critical. As for the second—the system is short roughly 1 million teachers the article says—this means that the country will almost certainly have to push the bounds of today’s online learning systems so that it can scale the impact of great teachers and built robust digital learning systems that embrace adaptive learning and other such advances. Given these pressures, the innovations that emerge from India could be stunning.

 

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Some more items concerning the massive convergence that we’re in the midst of…

On 02/20/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, architecture, convergence, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, television, trends, by Daniel Christian

Congress passes bill opening up TV spectrum to next-gen WiFi networks
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TV Next Conference

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Taylor Morris' Interactive Homes -- Feb 2012

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The future of internet TV [Phillips]

On 02/09/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Europe, future, internet, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, mirroring and/or multiple devices, more voice more choice more control, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, by Daniel Christian

The future of internet TV [Europe]

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From DSC:
Entertainment, some news, and social media at bat — educational apps on deck.

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Get ready for a world of connected devices [MacManus]

On 02/03/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, attention, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, internet, machine-to-machine communications, memory, Near Field Communication (NFC), smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, trends, by Daniel Christian

Get ready for a world of connected devices –– from readwriteweb.com by Richard MacManus

Excerpt:

The next big thing in computing isn’t a new model smartphone or laptop. It’s the Internet empowering everything else around us. Our cars, TVs and many other devices. Which means we all need to think about engaging digital Internet experiences for the car, TV and every device imaginable – because that’s where audiences are heading.

From DSC:
What opportunities — and threats — might be present in this trend as they relate to:

  • Learning and education?
  • Learning spaces and smart classrooms?
  • Attention spans and engagement?
  • Memory?
  • Other?
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Multitouch, connected device; foreshadowing the “chalkboard” for the future smart classroom?

On 02/01/2012, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, future, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, streams of content, by Daniel Christian

Multitouch, connected device; a foreshadowing of the chalkboard for the future smart classroom

 

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Ideum Releases MT65 Presenter Multitouch Wall Display [Ideum; Person]

On 01/24/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, learning spaces, multi-touch, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

Ideum Releases MT65 Presenter Multitouch Wall Display — from Ideum.com by Chad Person

Technical Specifications

 

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From DSC:
What if this were a Connected/Smart TV in a Smart Classroom?

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