The movement to put Bluetooth into Televisions is gaining momentum, with Broadcom not only having its Bluetooth chips in select Sharp and Samsung TVs, but now in LG’s as well. TV manufacturers who are forecasted to sell more than 200 million TVs world-wide this year hope to use Bluetooth to up-sell consumers to their more expensive models.
The push to put Bluetooth into TVs is great news for iPhone owners. Not only can they use their iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote control for their TV, they can also stream music from the iPod app to their TVs (or use their bluetooth headsets to listen to their TVs).
As a photographer, I’m salivating: Playback of my images on big screen TVs! Not just the images that I shot with my iPhone, but I could also store higher-resolution images, portfolios and slideshows on my iPhone and play them back on the TV. Or store them on Flickr and grab them from there for TV playback.
We will see how video will work via bluetooth, if at all. The data rates might just be too high and the iPhone’s battery might be drained too fast. But by the time Bluetooth reaches ubiquity in TVs, the iPhone 4G (or even 5G) will be out and so will be the “iPad”. And a newer version of the Bluetooth standard.
We will keep watching this exciting development!
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