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    News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    Fully-integrated TV from Apple arriving late next year?
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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    Surely they won't call it iTV? It's too close to ITV.

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    ITV already exists. Wonder if apple will sue them - after all the i prefix is apples invention isn't it...

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    I think it will just be Apple TV carrying on the currennt brand.

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    Ermm, is Apple planning to make this themselves or - like Google - license to real TV makers? Given their past record I suspect the former, in which case surely they're going to have to REALLY slog to beat the established players - Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, etc. A fancy interface and integration with "compatible products" (presumably theirs only) is all fine and good, but that won't sell if the set is (a) more expensive than the competition and/or (b) the competition has better picture etc.

    Secondly, at the risk of going all Arthur Smith ... what the ****ing hell is wrong with the normal remote control? If it's anything like Kinect then having to sit infuriatingly still isn't going to be the problem, instead it's going to be having to repeat those gestures two or three times to get the darned thing to recognise it. And then there's the voice recognition:
    you: change channel to zero zero three
    it: volume increased
    you: no, change channel to zero zero three
    it: volume increased
    you: no, you piece of c**p ... change - channel - to - zero - zero - three
    it: volume increased
    (and by now the windows are shaking)
    you: VOLUME - DOWN
    it: command not recognised
    you:
    (okay, okay, I'm playing this one up, because I know voice recognition these days is improving by leaps and bounds).

    Not that I'm an expert, but I would have hoped for something like a Apple equivalent of a Tivo box, better still one with a really fancy all-in-one touchscreen remote - so you could have it as the hub of your AV gear.

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    This has fail written all over it.

    +1 for ITV suing them.

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    @crossy: Wonder to the Apple Store and have a play with the voice recognition on i4s aka Siri - I had no problems with setting up alarms adding calendar entries and making appointments/calling people, all without me touching a thing.

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    Re: News - Apple iTV in 2012 with gesture control and voice support?

    Quote Originally Posted by spoon_ View Post
    @crossy: Wonder to the Apple Store and have a play with the voice recognition on i4s aka Siri - I had no problems with setting up alarms adding calendar entries and making appointments/calling people, all without me touching a thing.
    yes, I had a play - seems to justify being the "headline" item for the 4S - quite impressive. Although the Apple sale bod didn't seem to know whether this needed a data connection or not - I was pretty sure that it did.

    On the basis of that I got Vlingo for my Android phone - it's quite good, and probably good enough for the limited amount of use that I'd make of it. Of course Siri is better - mainly because of the far better integration.

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