Motorola TV remote

"It seems they have taken 3 remotes and packed in a single bar.

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देखकर तो ऐसा ही लगता है।

Instead of using 2 remotes, people can use just one. Just that it is slightly longer than ordinary remotes but people will live with it."

These are some chat bubbles from the conversations where few designer friends discussing about Motorola TV remote.

The very 1st impression looking at the image is similar for me as well.

It's difficult to gauge actual experience just by looking at the image but one can guess a few things.

● It seems they have put down maximum amount of interaction on hard key of remote for instant action/control instead of on-screen moving around.

● This approach could be well versed with the audience who is already using multi buttons remote and...not just 1 but 2 because... another one comes along with set top box (STB)... which usually takes over the TV remote.

● or I might just be wrong... the number of buttons and size or the remote can also intimidate the user. 

I have seen such remotes.. D2H set top box comes with such type of remote.. they have tons of buttons on remote... and non of them give you instant response...they have equal amount of on-screen UI to deal with. 

So, a clear purpose should be set for approaching the experience. If you're going heavy on remote interaction then remove as much, as you can... on-screen UI interaction.

● remote works well with TV native functions like on-off, volume control and satellite channel switching. When it comes to current day Apps, remote has limited control. A hard button at remote might be able to trigger the app but navigating and playing the content depends on that particular app's on-screen UI. 

Before you start playing the content all VOD apps require sign-up or log -in, which is not very easy to do via a remote.

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