Troubling for the networks, but expected: Those viewers used their remote controls 8% more than they had before the strike, flipping to see what options, including sports, movies and news, existed on other channels.

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TVs of the future will respond to voice commands, allowing viewers to chuck the remote.

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With the touch of a remote, connected tablet or phone, Samsung Smart TV viewers can easily surface content or offers related to the TV shows and commercials they are watching.

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And, year after year, the big networks imposed hefty price increases for ads, even as millions of viewers defected to cable, and early zapping technology--the remote control and the VCR--took hold.

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With gestures enabled, viewers can sit at a distance from their phones and motion in a manner similar to a remote control.

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