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Monday, January 18, 2010

IDEA: "Follow me" TV function

Hi,
   many house holds today have multiple TV/Media sets in the rooms dotted over the house. Unless they are off usually they show whatever the person in the room left running last. Which can be annoying when you are watching a TV program and at the same time are busying yourself around the house.

  It should be a technically a simple solution to feed all the TV from a central media center with modern STB (set top boxes). Alternatively, with multi-room or freeview it should be possible to configure all STB to receive the same channel (perhaps even via internet where applicable).

  The controller walking the rooms will have a remote control that announces the current program choice to the nearest device. The TV will then tune the channel of choice as announced by the remote control. This results in a follow-me effect where the TV choice follows the person into all rooms.

  Additionally, to save energy, the TV/Media sets can be configured to switch off when the remote control signal is out of reach or too low. This could indicate that the person has left the room.

 
Posted by Kyrmit at 3:27 PM
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