The Sony Mobile Xperia Z smartphone uses Bravia Engine 2.
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Sony, as part of its expansion into the smartphone category, included a “SideView” feature, which enables viewers to mirror handset content onto a Bravia TV set by tapping on the remote control. LG offered similar mirroring options, using “near-field communications”-touching a smartphone (in this case an LG Android-technology device) to a TV set peripheral, which paired the handset with the TV set. Samsung showed ways in which tablets and smartphones-not just Samsung products, but also Apple iPads and iPhones-can mirror content from or to the TV set. These and other “one-screen” interactivity ventures unveiled at CES did not diminish the vitality of cross-platform-or “companion device,” as Cisco might call it-services. Several LG TV models include opening screens that direct viewers to traditional TV channels, “premium” video content sources, such as Netflix, Flixster, Amazon, Crackle or OnLive videogames service, or to a “My Interest” category that offers weather and other websites.
Similarly, LG-which also is expanding its voice and gesture-control options-demonstrated more TV apps, with a significant focus on its third-generation Google TV enhancements. “Smart Hub will change the way you discover content,” promised Tim Baxter, president of the Consumer Electronics Division at Samsung Electronics America Inc. Since all Smart Hub options tie into Samsung’s increasing “recommendation” services, they also may affect the way viewers find and navigate (via voice or gesture control) to specific shows-whether online or from conventional linear sources. The “Apps” option poses both competition and collaboration with traditional TV viewing. The “Social” section enables viewers to plug into the social media chatter that often accompanies viewing of popular TV shows.
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Content is clustered into five app-like sections, which appear as tiles or panels when viewers turn on the Samsung set: “On TV” (showing six thumbnail images that suggest current programs based on viewing patterns), “Video-on- Demand” (including recommended Netflix and Hulu Plus titles), “My Content” (video, music and photos available from any device hooked into a home network), “Social” (feeds from Twitter, Facebook) and “Apps” (weather, stocks and other personal preferences). Meanwhile, Samsung is pushing its “Smart Hub” User Interface, available on almost all future Samsung TV sets. And, not surprisingly, an HSN official told TV Technology that the company will launch this shopping app on other set-makers’ smart TV platforms, although he declined to identify the next companies. Panasonic said the HSN implementation was the first of many such content-driven video apps it plans to introduce during the coming year.
Panasonic President Kazuhiro Tsuga and journalist Lisa Ling demo Panasonic’s Smart Viera homescreen during a 2013 CES keynote.
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