Kinect will allow users to control video selection and playback with hand motions and voice commands.
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In 2010, Microsoft introduced the Kinect, allowing computer gamers to control video games by moving their bodies.
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From his earliest days with the company, when it was a video-games firm called Control Video Corporation, the former Pizza Hut marketing executive was convinced that there was something magical about the delivery of content online.
Video quality control which gives users control over video quality, allowing them to further control their bandwidth consumption.
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The company highlighted this point repeatedly, announcing partnerships, for instance, with Netflix and HuluPlus that let Xbox Kinect users control those video apps by waiving their hands and talking to the system to select and play movies.
Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.
High Definition movies and stills can be shared with family and friends on an HD television via HDMI output, and control slideshows and video using the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) interface that is a part of most modern remote controls from HDTV manufacturers.
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Once you have clicked on a Play icon on a picture - or on the Player controls - then you can start, pause or restart the video by using the control buttons immediately below the video screen.
"We realized that users want more control over their video experience, " says Matt Spragins, RealNetworks' director of product management for RealPlayer.
To feed their new HD beast, the team revamped its video control room and upgraded to high-def cameras throughout the stadium.
Three finger gestures control music and video playback, and swiping three fingers to the right or left in the browser doubles as your back and forward shortcuts.
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Another was that foreigners couldn't control audio and video entertainment.
This newer patent, however, focuses more on the gestures themselves and other ways they could be used to control onscreen images and video.
In either case, users need only load a simple browser-based applet (typically Flash, Java, or ActiveX) to view live or recorded video, control cameras, or check their settings.
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Cisco does not oppose the merger, but believes the European Commission should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based interoperability, to avoid any one company from being able to seek to control the future of video communications.
And, it should go without saying, that it took a whole lot to get these gaming machines to share a single power supply, video cable and control pad.
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The only draw back is that because of the buffering for the video, it takes 10 to 15 seconds from when you hit the remote control button until you see the result on your video stream.
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The helicopter pilot endeared himself quickly with camping and a mutual zest for video games and remote control cars.
The recording unit features a 2-inch LCD screen to view footage in the field, edit video and make exposure control adjustments.
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Out of the box the Studio comes with a software suite that enables tuning the cam's settings (full manual control is available) plus recording video or capturing snapshots.
Then came audio switches, video projectors and lighting control panels.
Wii U owners use the GamePad controller to look in every direction to control an immersive 360-degree video guided tour as these destinations come to life from the comfort of your living room.
Additionally, Harmonic provides software products that allow customers to control and visually monitor their digital video infrastructure at an aggregate level, as well as solutions for high-quality digital storage of real-time broadcasts for on-demand services.
Measuring approximately 4.5 inches wide by 3 inches tall and weighing just over a pound, it's significantly smaller and lighter than any full-frame DSLR yet sacrifices nothing in terms of image quality, HD video quality or manual control.
Contepomi was denied a try by the video referee for losing control of the ball as he dived over before O'Driscoll put his side on the scoresheet with the simplest of tries after a great break from Stephen Keogh.
However, if the original Wii set a bar for intuitive control of a wide range of video games, TVii takes once TV-shy Nintendo and puts it in the driver's seat when it comes to defining a console's second-screen approach to television viewing and interaction.
The Slingbox PRO is their new flagship model, with additional inputs and outputs so you can control up to four audio or video sources (sadly, if you want to use high-def component inputs you need to drop an extra fifty bucks on a dongle they're calling the HD Connect -- there is no option for HDMI).
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The BT Media Remote features multimedia control which allows users to control the playback of any music or video on the iPhone or iPad.
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They will increasingly control their own scheduling, with personal video recorders and an electronic programme guide, which viewers can instruct to record all the week's comedy, say, or gardening shows.
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