So many cool things were pioneered in the 80s! Why can't we make a better one receiving FTA DTV and showing it on an OLED screen?
Probably because no one wants it.
I'd want one, even if it was black and white.
The Seiko TV watch
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#13Johnny Seiko and his Giant Robo
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#14Try this exercise:
Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display.
If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day.
Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials.
Enjoying that? Probably not.
With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a bit here and there. You don't try to view it continuously.
It is interesting to see a very clever product idea that completely ignores human anatomy.
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#15Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
You carry it on your wrist, but that doesn't mean you need to watch it on your wrist.
Even if it is a watch.
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#16Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
The use-case of it could be to primarily listen and just glance occasionally, like an augmented radio. News and sports events could fit the bill for example - listen most of the time and take a look for 30 seconds when something interesting/relevant is mentioned.
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#17Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
You carry it on your wrist, but that doesn't mean you need to watch it on your wrist. Even if it is a watch.
That's a good point. When I used to wear an old Casio digital watch, I would often take it off my wrist if I was going to do any serious timing with the stopwatch.
Of course if you're going to take it off your wrist for any serious viewing, they could have just put a bigger LCD on the tuner device itself, since you have to carry that anyway.
But that wouldn't have the "wow" factor of a TV watch!
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#18Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
There’s no reason the face has to be on the outside of the arm.
I remember when we had the databank watches (in the 80s), we’d wear them on the inside of our wrists since they were easier to use. The arm is in a position not much different from holding a smartphone with one hand.
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#19Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
The use-case of it could be to primarily listen and just glance occasionally, like an augmented radio. News and sports events could fit the bill for example - listen most of the time and take a look for 30 seconds when something interesting/relevant is mentioned.
Ah, now that makes sense! I was picturing actually watching a full TV show, but what you describe is very practical.
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#20So many cool things were pioneered in the 80s! Why can't we make a better one receiving FTA DTV and showing it on an OLED screen?
Because while you won't need an external unit for the tuner anymore, you would still need one for the battery.
This isn't true.
Smartwatches have had full HD h.264 and 720p h.265 hardware decode since at least 2014.
https://www.slideshare.net/jjwu6266/qualcomm-snapdragon-400b...