yodaofborg said:
I use a blue tooth remote (well, its actually my mobile phone) for my PC which is connected to my TV, but I think a remote for a *hand held* would be a little bit too much. Sure, this machine will have some power, but it will still be a hand held device.
The remote is not for the hand held. Instead, the remote will only be used when the hand held is hooked to the TV to watch movies. While watching movies may not be for all, there is a market of portable media devices that hook up to the TV. These portable media players come with remotes that people use when they watch their digital movies (i.e. Archos, Cowon, etc.).
Now, then, if this can be done with a bluetooth remote then great (I'll have to do some research on this).
I also know there's interest among both Archos and Nokia tablet users for having a gadget that does all three: 1) Surf the Net 2) Watch movies and 3) Play games.
In fact, the Nokia web tablets also allow you to play movies (via a conversion process that people use) and games too. I have even seen some emulators running on the Nokia web tablets. Unfortunately, it's not designed to play games and therefore it's not really worth it. Among Archos users, they're getting excited that soon Archos will release the Opera Widgets that will allow them to download mini games unto their devices. Again, these devices are not designed for this and the games they will soon download are not all that great.
Another example is Cowon which is soon about to release the Q5 in the USA (along with the A3). This thing can play movies, surf the web, and I have even seen a gamepad hooked to it (via USB) while someone was playing MAME. The major complaint, however, is that it's too expensive (over $500), a little bit too big, and a general dislike that it has Windows CE 5 as its operating system. Indeed, people are praising the hardware but not the software. So close and yet so far. I do believe that it will fail as a product.
Thus, I firmly believe that if the Craiginator can tap into all 3 features, they will have a great product that will appeal to many potential customers (and not just the gaming/emulator scene). In addition, there might be some potential customers that will only like 2 out of the 3 listed features and still purchase the product: Movies and Games, or Internet and Games, or Movies and Internet. And if that's the case, the movies-interest potential customer will definitely want a remote to control their Craiginator when watching a movie from a sofa.
