What are the Smart-TV? Which are the main features and what to offer more than a normal television?

The Smart TV is the kind of TV you define smart because the viewer can interact with the same and receive personalized information.

The smart TV can be controlled by voice or with gestures, has an internal operating system that can be installed application and can do many other things.

Let's see what are the Smart TV on sale in malls and appliance stores. 

The concept of Smart TV was born several years ago, only in recent years, however, have been marketed these new models of TVs.

In general, the Smart TV is nothing more than a regular TV that you can connect to the internet and that works almost like a computer and can have various features.

A Smart TV is in degrees to play movies and streaming video, free or paid from sites such as Youtube or other online movie rental sites like Cubovision and XBox Live.

He can connect a USB stick to play videos and music, or they can play anything you can see on the computer connected to the same network with DLNA streaming.

As with a tablet on a Smart TV you can surf the internet, you can install applications like Youtube, Skype and Facebook or games like Angry Birds.

You can schedule the recording of television programs directly from the television and can be controlled with a smartphone or with hand gestures or even by voice if you integrate media such as Microsoft's Kinect or Wii Remote.

Looking for the Smart TV MediaWorld or online stores like Amazon are several models of smart TVs with internet connectivity.

The Samsung seems to be that the company is focusing more on these types of tv and provides on its site has a page of presentation of the Samsung Smart TV.

Other brands such as Sony and Panasonic sell Smart TV late last year and an advertisement for LG you can see, like, in theory, do these smart TVs.

The main problem of these early models about the installed operating systems, often very limited, buggy and not very flexible.

It will probably be necessary to a version of Android for TV so that we can have the full freedom of use and compatibility with all popular video formats, audio and web.

In addition to this, a computer inside a television becomes, by force of thing, obsolete within no time.

Who, like me, think that a TV in your home should last at least 5 years if not more, you could end up with a smart tv almost unusable after only two years, because the operating system or the firmware is no longer updated by the producer, applications are no longer compatible and can no longer do almost nothing of what was promised.

Unlike a real computer, you can not upgrade the internal components of a TV.

In Italy, then almost all the online content of movies and TV shows visible from a Smart TV are not free then requires internet connectivity, almost certainly, to pay a subscription fee similar to that of Sky.

 

If, therefore, on the one hand we have huge potential, on the other hand the technical limitations rather frustrating would advise against buying these televisions, were it not that the TV will soon be on sale all Smart TV, at least in small doses.

Regardless of whether you want a TV that can surf the internet, the majority of new TVs should have network connectivity, wifi, internal operating system to manage multimedia content and other web functions.

The market situation is similar to that of TV-3D, you'll buy you a new TV is likely to be compatible with the 3D, and it's also Smart-TV.

Should not buy a new Smart TV if you already have a good TV, and if you connect with an Apple TV, an XBox or even an iPad.

In another article we have also seen how to create a home-cinema system to connect the TV to watch movies and videos online.

In addition, as shown, you can easily connect a laptop to the TV and you can create a multimedia station with a few dollars using a Raspberry PI.

If you did not have anything like this and you did not have any desire to get to configure external devices, then a Smart TV might be the right purchase to change your old TV.

25/01/2013

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Source:

Italian version of ReteArchitetti.it

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