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hey guys its new version here with Matt McCray the CTO visio we're here at CES 2014 you're still making laptops you're still eating desktops yeah you've kind of pared down the model Rangers there what's that what's going on there we noticed ninety percent of our sales for instance just as an example our all-in-one PC ninety percent of our sales was 24 inch so we pared down our 27 we're just concentrating on the 24 so we took our 24 inch and we updated the touchscreen technology so it's much faster we bumped a fourth-generation intel processor we have iris pro graphics all I sevens by the way we bumped at the 802 11 AC so the fastest wireless standard so what we did is we we pared down what people were actually passionate about buying and got rid of the stuff that people weren't buying and you got rid of your 13-inch laptop tonight we got right we got rid we had a 14 so we had a force for 14 inch we got rid of that we have a 15-6 so you suck with the keyboard on a lot of times good time that's gone on you know you don't I never said I liked it I just the first time I ever saw it two years ago I said this is going to be controversial and it's been two years three years yeah what I mean we have a solid so totally open we have about ten fifteen percent of people don't like the keyboard and the rest like it so we've stuck with a keyboard we've updated the trackpad so we're continuously refining but we've had it we've had more people say don't change the keyboard so we've left the keyboard the way it is and most people most people enjoy it so when you launch the pcs right there was going to be the big the next big wave for vizia right you were it was a big launch you were everywhere and I've kind of pulled it back a little bit yeah is there a reason is it just the TV stuff is more important and there's a bigger market there the pc market is kind of falling apart yeah that helps yeah pc market is i would say a best stagnant yeah i think our area where we're going for is a healthy market meaning that kind of high-end people it's not the largest part of the market i think a lot of the market has gone to like five hundred dollars and less we don't have a lot of interest in playing in that you're not gonna make rumba no we have no plans to make a Chromebook so we're still on the premium side and we still view it as a product that complements the rest of our products so again it's another screen that you can watch content on so if you're a netflix subscriber and your way into netflix you can start a stream on your laptop close the screen we you know play it back on your TV and in fact you could actually play it on our smart idea product cuz we have a full android on there and so you can jump between screens and we thought that was very very important so that's still important to us so why do you actually it's weird you have all these platforms and you were telling me that the apps are what connects platforms but you have android on the smart audio products you've got proprietary i'm assuming linux the html5 on the tvs and then you've got windows and your computer's why not just pick one why not have Android run on the TV yeah I don't so here's here's my current view is that there isn't one platform that's perfect for all meaning the there is not an operating system that is the best PC operating system in the world and also the best mobile operating system for a smaller device and there's definitely not an OS on a PC or a mobile device that's the best operating system for a TV so still today on the underlying platforms we're still in a mode of Best of Breed meaning we're picking the best platform for that specific device with the idea though that the platform doesn't really matter what matters is like I said before that somebody can jump between Netflix versions and all of them and have a totally seamless experience or Spotify or Pandora or whatever that's where people are making their connections especially on TV when they're looking for content and so as long as we can make that a completely consistent interface the underlying platform to us at least becomes less important and we would still tip towards using the best platform our operating system on that given device and then concentrating on the user experience above it i don't know in the future you know a single OS may become the best mobile the best TV and the best computing and have one but i don't think we're there you it seems like html5 is going to that sweats go away well you know yeah what I would say it's html5 is kind of layer in between in that you can write an html5 app that runs on Android and it also runs on a web browser Chrome or html5 kit and in fact a lot of the apps and Windows 8 you're actually written in html5 and CSS right so there's already a little bit of this unifying development layer and efflux is Oliver and Netflix is all over that multiple apps and we've had html5 on our TVs for you know over a year now and I'll tell you all the new apps that are being written for a smart TV platform for a Chanel 5 yeah that's I mean that's it's I only asked you to ask you about the one competitor I'm going to ask you at which is LG is going to come out with webos to you and that seems like there it's called webos they're betting big on this HTML future but it seems like they needed to race into you know they're not software developers their version of Android is kind of like whatever do you see that is like the future for all these TV products is web apps kind of being rescaled and reported to the television yeah because there's no there's no unified interface like it's like no you know Netflix looks like those who looks like this Amazon looks like that yeah so what I think what's happening is on the best Internet platforms for TVs there's a unification happening at the app level yeah so for instance we you know there's two versions of Netflix out there there's the kind of very minimalist that ended up on blu-ray players and some of the less capable smart TVs and then there's the full fledge version that we have and it's very much the same as Android or iOS and some of the others so there's a little bit of a bifurcation but I would say there's there's becoming a pretty seamless user experience at the apt level I think html5 is helping with that right so a developer can develop once and with little modification move between them I think LG's choice of webos is interesting I mean I think you know it may be unnecessary I think you know where all the developments being done is above the OS level you know they bought it so they decided to use it haha that's good yeah glad to catch up waiting for us it's unnecessary I think for us it's less about especially on a TV it's less about the OS it's more about the user interface I do think that a fully unified user experience across these platforms is important and it's something we're working on in the labs obviously we had to finish the reference series first I've got a picture quality audit quality yeah we think it or next-gen the entire lab that we work on and our R&D center will be moving towards smart TV platforms of the future and I already have been I think the next step is that unification and I can't tell you exactly what that is but what's interesting I think webos is going to be tough because well s is any of the other platforms so it's interesting as they pick something that has already been taken off mobile phones and taken off everything else so that's going to be more difficult yeah when there's operating systems that are out there that are already kind of pushing across devices and some of them are actually operating systems but some of them may just be a development platform like html5 that ends up everywhere so I think that's the next step is where the interface on your TV is completely the same as the interface on your tablet and I don't when I say the same obviously it's scaled and optimizing there's some elements that are tweaked but there's no reason to learn a completely new interface every single device you pick up yeah I think we're kind of past that and it just requires some extra work to get that done and you know the smart audio devices is our first step at actually doing that right where you can pick up an android phone or an Android tablet and then launch one of our smart devices and you're not going to see a difference that is completely unskilled android kitkat on a quad core processor you know again like I said before an Android users going to walk up and be immediately comfortable to them immediately without having to go through a user you know training session and trying to figure out how to download apps and sign up for a new account all it's done come out of the box and just works that's the first test and we'll see some others and some other is a big challenge of scaling that to 120 inches yeah I mean yeah you're not going to walk up there and start swiping no and I don't think people want to do this either no I so I agree yeah I think the challenge for TV is not just user interface I think the challenge with TV is it's the only device that you sit at a distance yeah right so your interaction with it it's not direct or in a you know keyboard and trackpad or on a touchscreen you are 10 to 15 to 20 feet away and trying to solve for a really simple intuitive user model is what needs to be solved and I agree i think the gesture stuff is a gimmick I think it's great for some games you know if you want to play kinect that's great but as a way to navigate a full operating system I think it just doesn't work yeah otherwise stuff is Cepheus employ stuff if it's not stellar it's frustrating and so again when you come to video we when I said talking before about a curated experience I don't believe voices is good on a TV and I think gestures is a gimmick I don't think it works some of the camera based gesture stuffs even worse and so we don't bother putting it in because nobody uses it and frankly you know you don't want your users to be beta testers so until it's perfect don't put it in so what we did is we spent the last few years going back and trying to build the best picture quality audio file in the world and we're still working on some of those more deeper questions around a complete unified UI and what is the proper interaction mode there's something that you're 10 feet away from and we've got some really good ideas and that's next year and maybe ha all right man what's always resented good thanks