The Seiko TV watch • Hacker News Board

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by CodeBeater » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:19 AM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #16

Stratoscope wrote: post #14

Try 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.

This is probably the primary use case. Although modified FM radio receivers could easily receive analog TV audio it just would be a harder sell.

Also, sometimes companies do things just to show off their capabilities to the market, especially Japanese companies. Sony were the kings of this tactics back in the day.

As a side note, in the typical western FM band allocation (88 - 108MHz), the analog TV audio carrier for channel 6 would be located just under that (at 87.7MHz), and since most radio receivers could go a little under and over that range, most people could listen to channel 6 audio on the go.

This generated an entire market of "TV" stations who's main purpose was to broadcast audio, in the United States they were nicknamed "Franken-FMs".

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by saxelsen » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:31 AM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #14

Try 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…

When I was at uni, I made an AR app intended for the iPad, that would let the user walk around a specific part of Brighton and see historical facts as overlays on the screen.

One of the early feedback comments was that it was quite exhausting holding out the ipad for more than a minute at the time.

This comment resonates well!

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by iancmceachern » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:44 AM UTC

guidoism wrote: post #52

I remember this fondly from Beyond 2000, the best show of the late 1980s.

Yes! Indeed the best show, and then after 2000 it became beyond tomorrow

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by iancmceachern » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:45 AM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #60

csdvrx wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd want one, even if it was black and white.

Well, no-one else but you does.

I do too

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by jansan » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:45 AM UTC

jacklizhui wrote: post #48

You have to admit Back in 1980s this was not only awesome but a must have gadget. Hard to visualise how awesome this before internet era. Completely futuristic. +10000

Just like in 1999 the Casio PRT-1GPJ, the first GPS watch. Quite useless and totally awesome. I had a friend who almost could not sleep until he finally owned this watch. Then he put it into a drawer and never looked at it again.

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by JetAlone » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:55 AM UTC

Well, hell, if the NHK man is going to squeeze that fee out of me, I might as well have 24/7 access to the station I'm paying for...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK_Party

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 6:01 AM UTC

themodelplumber wrote: post #30

Stratoscope wrote: post #14

Try 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…

IDK, I mean...imagine you have access to a desk which can support a human arm... Or the top of your backpack sitting on your lap as you ride the train or bus. Then imagine, additionally, if your brain didn't seem to mind watching TV at an angle, since it always watches it at an angle, just on a different axis of rotation, anyway. IDK, some things are cool and also _just_ useful enough to be a no-brainer if you have t…

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Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by ElemenoPicuares » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 6:01 AM UTC

themodelplumber wrote: post #30

Stratoscope wrote: post #14

Try 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…

IDK, I mean...imagine you have access to a desk which can support a human arm... Or the top of your backpack sitting on your lap as you ride the train or bus. Then imagine, additionally, if your brain didn't seem to mind watching TV at an angle, since it always watches it at an angle, just on a different axis of rotation, anyway. IDK, some things are cool and also _just_ useful enough to be a no-brainer if you have t…

Agreed that it’s kind of ridiculous to assume you can’t rest your arm… people do with phones all the time. To be fair, old lcd displays did have a razor thin viewing angle.

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by jasomill » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

jansan wrote: post #65

jacklizhui wrote: post #48

You have to admit Back in 1980s this was not only awesome but a must have gadget. Hard to visualise how awesome this before internet era. Completely futuristic. +10000

Just like in 1999 the Casio PRT-1GPJ, the first GPS watch. Quite useless and totally awesome. I had a friend who almost could not sleep until he finally owned this watch. Then he put it into a drawer and never looked at it again.

Totally awesome, but only mostly useless. The week I got mine, I used it to find my car in a large parking lot.

Then I put it in a box and never looked at it again.

Re: The Seiko TV watch

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Post by eternalban » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 6:21 AM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #14

Try 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…

> 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.

It could work for porn.