{"id":7130,"date":"2015-01-20T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:36:15","slug":"stupid-tv-remotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7130","title":{"rendered":"Stupid TV Remotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mediapost.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/dam\/cropped\/2015\/01\/15\/smart-tv-remote-controls-188.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s refreshing when I see an article done elsewhere that echoes my own sentiments. My general response to this topic of awkward &#8220;Smart TV&#8221; remotes is: <em>Duh<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe article doesn&#8217;t really mention any solutions. I can think of a few:<\/p>\n<p>Ditch the standard TV remote and replace it with a keyboard. The typical computer keyboard has only a few more buttons than the standard, obnoxious Smart TV remote.<\/p>\n<p>Go with gestures and voice, which is suggested in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The Nexus Player has a remote with four buttons: Home, Back, Play\/Pause, and Voice. And the voice input feature works nicely for searching and typing. Then again, the Nexus Player remote is one of four remotes I keep by my smart TV. These include the TV&#8217;s own remote, the Cable Company&#8217;s remote, and the BluRay player remote.<\/p>\n<p>Too many remotes. Too many apps. Too much nonsense for a mindless activity like watching TV!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/241813\/not-so-smart-tv-remote-interface-issues-drive-do.html\" target=\"_blank\">MediaPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaPost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}