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Netflix button on a Sharp Aquos TV remote. Many popular TV companies have adopted the Netflix button, including: LG, Samsung, Sony, and Hisense. Some of the TVs have made it to a list that Netflix has dubbed the "Netflix Recommended TVs". These are TVs that have a Netflix button on them which Netflix recommends to their subscribers to get the ...
NetCast, or NetCast Entertainment Access, was announced by LG at CES 2009. [2] [3] At launch, it gave users access to Netflix, YouTube and Yahoo! Widgets. Later, support for Vudu has also been added. [4] In 2010, LG introduced the LG Magic Remote, which is a TV remote designed to be used with their Smart TV system. [5]
In January 2011, Netflix announced agreements with several manufacturers to include branded Netflix buttons on the remote controls of devices compatible with the service, such as Blu-ray players. [66] By May 2011, Netflix had become the largest source of Internet streaming traffic in North America, accounting for 30% of traffic during peak hours.
1950s TV Remote by Motorola SABA corded TV remote. One of the first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950. The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic, [15] [16] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley.
Harmony 670, a universal remote. A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. . Low-end universal remotes can only control a set number of devices determined by their manufacturer, while mid- and high-end universal remotes allow the user to program in new control codes to the re
A remote control for a Philips smart TV with a special button for the Netflix streaming service in the Groninger village of Finsterwolde, Oldambt. Items portrayed in this file depicts
A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...
[9] [2] Media could be queued to play on the device using a "Play to" button shown within the Google Play Music, Google Play Movies & TV, and YouTube apps. Content is streamed directly from the services by the Nexus Q, with the Android device used like a remote control. For music, multiple users could collaboratively queue songs from Google ...