by Stephen Cass, Technology Review
While the picture quality and screen size is likely to be the most immediately striking thing about the 55-inch Super OLED TV Samsung unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, some of the less visible technologies in the TV could prove to be more significant in the long term. The Super OLED is, like virtually all new high-televisions, a smart TV, capable of running local applications and accessing the Internet. What’s new is Samsung’s approach to the thorny challenge of the smart TV interface, using motion and voice control. The interface problem arises because TV is what’s been dubbed as a “lean back” experience. But navigating a video streaming service, or sending a tweet, are relatively complex activities typically associated with the “lean forward” experience of computers where at least a keyboard (even if only an on-screen tablet one) is available.
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