Samsung’s New See’N'Search Set-Top Box
Remember WebTV? Hey, I subscribed, at one time, and I found it very useful, for what it was. To surf the web, and utilize your email. Well Samsung has a new idea with its SeeNSearch Set Top Box.
According to the website “Just as a consumer would search a channel guide to see what’s on and when, Samsung’s See’N'Search set-top box uses the same information, in addition to the closed caption metadata that is present for most programming, to scour existing Internet content (HTML coding, Web video, etc.) and make recommendations that would appeal to the user. To do this, the system monitors the contents of the program being watched, using lightweight natural language technologies to determine the topics that are being discussed. When the user presses the “More Info” button, the See’N'Search UI appears on-screen with related information or media that the system found on the Internet. The consumer simply selects a piece of content from any particular topic, and See’N'Search takes them directly to that content.”
But it sounds like interactive tv to me. How new is that?
