Zoom TV: how to change the way you control your TV forever

    In a previous post, I insidiously misled honest citizens and carried nonscientific nonsense to an important, in my opinion, problem: the traditional method of controlling a TV gives off mothballs and does not correspond at all to the current socio-technological moment. Forcing a user to manually search for the program he needs using a television remote control in our time is the same as preferring manual human labor to robots.

    Again, I truly believe that the modern city man has every right to arrange the space around him in full accordance with the commandments of consumer feng shui: i.e. receive services to the maximum, and put effort to a minimum (ideally - do not put any effort at all). The elimination of mechanical and monotonous actions from our lives is one of the goals of technological progress. And the long-term resistance of TV (more than 50 years) here is something out of the ordinary.

    Joseph Goebbels, a well-known expert and handyman in the field of media interfaces, once said: “A critic must be ready and able at any time and upon demand to take the place of the critic he is criticizing and carry out his work productively and competently; otherwise, criticism turns into a brazen self-sufficient force and becomes a brake on the path of cultural progress. " Well, I decided to follow this advice and present a method for solving a well-known problem.

    Our team has developed ZOOM TV - an application for modern TVs that analyzes the categories of programs that interest the viewer. Having collected the necessary data about the user's preferences, it automatically switches between the most rated programs from the categories that interest him. Thus, the application protects the person from uninteresting transfers and minimizes the number of actions necessary for management.

    The question arises - but how does it work? I'll explain now.

    Imagine that you love comics. The application will carefully monitor what programs you are focusing on, how long you have been watching them, etc. And then it itself will begin to search for the best examples of the genre. Therefore, it will offer you the Nolan trilogy about Batman, and not the infamous "Batman and Robin" by Joel Schumacher; “Green Hornet”, and not, God forgive me, “Green Lantern”; X-Men: First Class, but not X-Men: Wolverine; “Judge Dredd” of 2012, but not “Judge Dredd” of 1996. However, the genre is too simple.

    Here the program noticed your increased attention to Sylvester Stallone. Here, it would seem that its soulless mechanism should, not looking at the quality, interfere in one heap and toss you “Cobra” and “Children of Spies-3”, “The Expendables” and “Remove Carter”, “Rocky” and “Detoxification” at the same time "... (did not watch" Detoxification "? How I envy you!). But no matter how - the application, first of all, will offer you the most rated films with this actor.

    The application quickly learns and adapts to the user's preferences, somewhat expanding the scope of the proposal. For example, if you often watch political news from CNN and the BBC, then after some time, in addition to programs of the corresponding direction, they will start offering the series “House of Cards” with Kevin Spacey and “State of play”.

    But genre preferences should change a little - and this will immediately affect the list of recommendations, because the application is constantly learning.

    Work on the application is still underway, but the first results are seriously encouraging: we reached the final of the BIT contest and, most importantly, almost 15 thousand users installed the application in less than two weeks. And this, I note, without any promotion measures, on a small platform provided to us by Samsung in the “test mode”. So we are on the right track. In the following posts I will talk more about the application. And here I am ready to answer questions in the comments.

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