With the increasing purchases of smartphones and tabs, the TV ownership has seen a drop, but still the TV viewership is on the rise. Various surveys number the hours spent in front of TV by an average person around 150 hours per month. Your internet browser also makes a good media platform, as people often watch TV on sites like Hulu and Netflix. Not so the TV industry is embracing the digital infiltration, and the new technologies meant to compete the TVs for the attention of the viewer are actually bringing people more and more close to TVs and HTPCs, but some are taking them away. We would like you to know about the new trends that you need to watch out if you own a TV, HTPC and Home Theater or are planning to buy one.
TVs Embraces the Internet
Thanks to Netflix and Hulu people now do not need TV sets to consume media. This has prompted TV manufacturers to invest in internet-enabled models. As the tradition TVs get challenged by internet video steaming, the manufacturing companies have started to realize consumer behaviors and provide products accordingly. For example, Sony’s Google TV brings Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and Pandora to your living room screens.
Box Office Competes TVs
The rise of the 3D movies has attracted to people to come to cinemas rather than sitting in couches. Now you can get a highly visual experience at a price little more than regular movies. 3D TVs that exist are costly and yet cannot provide the same level of visual experience when compared to 3D cinemas. While 3D technology has been viewed as the new promising frontier for home entertainment systems, yet not many people own a 3D TV, the reason can be glasses factor, many people do not find them convenient and comfortable.
Super Thin TVs
Yes this is the trend that’s really going to revolutionize the home theaters. As the LCDs, OLEDs and LEDs become thinner and thinner, last year Sony and this year LG have unveiled super slim TVs that are actually thinner than a pen. According to LG-Display this is the obvious future of screens. They might be commercially available in the near future and maybe in a few years from now we might be actually able to traverse with our TVs rolled like newspapers.
Bye-Bye to Cords
Who would want the mess of having the wires all around his living room connecting different components of his home theater? Certainly no one, when there are a lot of wireless options available out there in market. The cord-cutting technologies are not new to the TV industry but the way in which they are progressing and becoming common in household is noteworthy. People are now preferring wireless solution. Some people prefer relying on online platforms like Netflix to watch their favorite movies and TV shows on a monthly subscription, rather than having a cable connection or dish antenna. Cable cord might be necessary for if you want a range of entertainment and news channels removing them is an objective decision consumers have to make but if you are still having a home theater with sloppy looking cords around the edges of your walls connecting your sound system and other components etc. it is definitely worth considering if you need to have a cordless home theater. Maybe in future we might have fully cordless and portable HDTV platforms, a trend you need to watch out for.
TVs Embraces the Internet
Thanks to Netflix and Hulu people now do not need TV sets to consume media. This has prompted TV manufacturers to invest in internet-enabled models. As the tradition TVs get challenged by internet video steaming, the manufacturing companies have started to realize consumer behaviors and provide products accordingly. For example, Sony’s Google TV brings Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and Pandora to your living room screens.
Box Office Competes TVs
The rise of the 3D movies has attracted to people to come to cinemas rather than sitting in couches. Now you can get a highly visual experience at a price little more than regular movies. 3D TVs that exist are costly and yet cannot provide the same level of visual experience when compared to 3D cinemas. While 3D technology has been viewed as the new promising frontier for home entertainment systems, yet not many people own a 3D TV, the reason can be glasses factor, many people do not find them convenient and comfortable.
Super Thin TVs
Yes this is the trend that’s really going to revolutionize the home theaters. As the LCDs, OLEDs and LEDs become thinner and thinner, last year Sony and this year LG have unveiled super slim TVs that are actually thinner than a pen. According to LG-Display this is the obvious future of screens. They might be commercially available in the near future and maybe in a few years from now we might be actually able to traverse with our TVs rolled like newspapers.
Bye-Bye to Cords
Who would want the mess of having the wires all around his living room connecting different components of his home theater? Certainly no one, when there are a lot of wireless options available out there in market. The cord-cutting technologies are not new to the TV industry but the way in which they are progressing and becoming common in household is noteworthy. People are now preferring wireless solution. Some people prefer relying on online platforms like Netflix to watch their favorite movies and TV shows on a monthly subscription, rather than having a cable connection or dish antenna. Cable cord might be necessary for if you want a range of entertainment and news channels removing them is an objective decision consumers have to make but if you are still having a home theater with sloppy looking cords around the edges of your walls connecting your sound system and other components etc. it is definitely worth considering if you need to have a cordless home theater. Maybe in future we might have fully cordless and portable HDTV platforms, a trend you need to watch out for.