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Digital Consumer Devices

Abstract: This chapter describes the types of digital consumer devices that are emerging and how they interact with each other. The home product industry is bustling with new digital consumer devices. They are also called information appliances, Internet appliances, intelligent appliances, or iAppliances. Some of the more common digital consumer devices are audio players, digital cameras and camcorders, digital televisions (TVs), digital videocassette recorders (VCRs) or digital video recorders (DVR) or personal video recorders (PVR), DVD players, eBooks, email terminals, gaming consoles, Internet-enabled picture frames, mobile phones, NetTVs or iTV-enabled devices, robot animals, and screen phones or video phones. All these devices are made intelligent by embedded semiconductors and their connection to the Internet. They are lightweight and reliable, and provide special-purpose access to the Internet. Their advanced computational capabilities add more value and convenience when they are networked. Digital consumer devices cover hardware, software, and services, and are designed specifically to enable the management, exchange, and manipulation of information. They are enabled by technologies such as Internet convergence and integration, wired and wireless communications, software applications, semiconductors technology, personal computing, networking, and consumer electronics.

Systems and methods for navigating internet appliances using a media guidance application

Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating through activity information using a media guidance application are provided. An Internet appliance is integrated with a plurality of content sources accessible to user equipment. A simultaneous display of a first plurality of media asset listings, corresponding to a first plurality of media assets transmitted by each of the plurality of content sources during a first time interval that includes the present time, and information received from the Internet appliance is generated. In response to a user request to navigate to a second time interval that precedes the present time, a simultaneous display of a second plurality of media asset listings, corresponding to a second plurality of media assets that were transmitted by each of the plurality of content sources during the second time interval, and a timeline that includes indicators representing activity detected by the Internet appliance during the second time interval is generated.