Samsung's See'N'Search set-top TV / Internet box demo video
By Richard Lawler 
posted February 16th 2008 8:05AM
posted February 16th 2008 8:05AM
Samsung's See'N'Search set-top box that intelligently and automatically pulls content from the internet to match whatever TV show is on sounded nice enough, but we wanted to see it in action. Apparently the good people at Samsung have also perfected their wish-granting technology to match the unit's metadata scrapers, because here's a demo video. Check it out after the break, and be mindful of your thoughts, wouldn't want to distract Samsung's R&D from preparing that sandwich we just telepathically requested.
sweeeeet.
what would be interesting is i the content providers could start embedding links, as in "the washington post says this..." and below would be a link to their source.
....although that would probably be abused and turned into a bunch of commercials in no time. :\
The only problem with that is that it requires work. TV is hard enough to make, and given how interconnected all the media entities are, they'd probably only push you to their own sites....
I love how these demos always show things that are already over-covered. Does anyone out there have problems finding hillary clinton's web site? or pictures of Zach Braff? This is a solution in search of a problem...
autoplay videos suck
*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
Who embeds video with autoplay?
Richard Lawler, I don't like your LawLLERCOASTER.
Just as annoying as the apple vs microsoft ads.
Wait til the spammers and viral ad artists hook into this product.
"The Moines"? Sigh...
I should expect such mistakes. Heck, there are people that have lived here all their life and still can't pronounce the name of the city they live in correctly. Maybe the TV is just phonic pronunciation. If that's the case, then it's better then I thought.
Anyone else notice it looks like they are running it off of a HR21 Directv HD-DVR?
I wonder if they are planning on adding the technology to current DVR devices...would be interesting. Especially since some DVRs like the HR21 are already internet enabled.