Smart TVs have a serious communication problem | Ars Technica

“The IPTV control schemes of yore are, to put it lightly, design nightmares. Keyboards that were either fat and ugly or miniaturized for one hand, and mice or touchpads that have to work with poorly scaled displays for viewing, typing, or manipulating text. Those controls may have been better than using a remote’s hard buttons to scroll around an alphabet on a screen and enter text letter by letter, but not by much. In newer remotes, some of the more inscrutable buttons are eliminated and replaced with keyboards. Their settings may be offloaded to an interactive onscreen menu, but that doesn’t make access any quicker or less complex.”