 telcodad
join:2011-09-16
Lincroft, NJ
kudos:2 | reply to Russ
Re: [STB] Cisco thinking of getting out of the set-top box busin A recent article on the CED Magazine site on the current (poor) experience of searching for what to watch using today's Guide UIs:
Navigation guides yet to take flight
The process of finding what you want to watch on TV continues to be cumbersome.
By Brian Santo, CED Magazine - November 21, 2012
»www.cedmagazine.com/articles/201···e-flight |
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2 edits | said by telcodad:A recent article on the CED Magazine site on the current (poor) experience of searching for what to watch using today's Guide UIs:
Navigation guides yet to take flight
The process of finding what you want to watch on TV continues to be cumbersome.
By Brian Santo, CED Magazine - November 21, 2012
»www.cedmagazine.com/articles/201···e-flight
Search (and UIs in general) on STBs suck because cable has always been too cheap to pay for development, and they're beholden to a huge legacy base of boxes that can't run anything decent. Plus they have little to no incentive to give you search results for anything other than their own products.
Tivo's current integrated search is decent, especially when accessed with the recently discontinued Slide remote (has a built-in slide out keyboard). It's a little slow and is fully integrated only with a few providers like Netflix, but it's better than anything cable has.
Google TV is a good idea but so far pretty crappy implementations, I think the Vizio box is a lot better than the discontinued Logitech Revues. Problem is that no one wants to pay for yet another box to sit between their STB and TV, and big content is still stupid enough to think they should block the devices.
»www.engadget.com/2012/09/19/vizi···-review/ |
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