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This isn’t Christmas 2012′s hottest sex toy. It’s LG’s revised Magic Remote, the new way to turn the act of changing channels into a never-ending loop of frustration.
The reworked, smaller and slimmer Magic Remote will arrive inside the packaging of LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV range, offering voice, motion, point and wheel controls to help make escaping from programmes in a hurry a little bit more… cumbersome.
LG’s most proud of its Natural Language Recognition software, which offers a Google/Siri method of activating apps and searching for features, with LG suggesting the phrase “Show me Gang-nam Style video” will instantly take you to the relevant app and clip.
But for all its posh features, we’d still expect the volume up/down toggle to be the only features to show any signs of use and wear five years from now. [LG]
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Unnecessarily harsh on a TV remote, perhaps?
Once you wipe the thick layer of scorn that Mr Cutlack has poured all over it, it doesn’t seem like such a terrible idea to have a Wii remote turned mouse as a smart TV remote.
*wipe away
It’s a very useful tool, you can do almost everything from a normal remote with this. The only thing it slows down is typing in a channel number as you have to point at an on-screen numberpad but that’s what the normal remote is for (you get both bundled in the box).
Used one in John Lewis. It was surprisingly good.
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I bought an LG smart TV recently and it came with one of these. It’s a very useful remote. It’s a lot easier scrolling through the list of apps, through web pages, etc using the magic remote than trying to do everything with a normal clunky remote.
It works similarly to a Wiimote but doesn’t need a sensor bar and doesn’t have the cursor wobble the Wiimotes do, therefore it is very accurate and easy to get used to.
Have you tried the app? my only gripe is the lack of ‘guide’ button.
Which app? I’ve tried most of them. Yeah, the lack of the guide button is a pain too.
the ‘LG TV Remote’ app. But you might need a slightly different one depending on the model year.
Is that the phone app? I’ve not bothered with it as it seems to do the same as the Magic Remote that came with the TV.
Most probably