You could argue that having a dumb screen connected to a smart box is a much smarter solution to the question of getting digital content to your TV, but Loewe’s new Follow Me function looks like a pretty solid feature to have in any TV. It lets you stream video content from any Loewe SL series TV to any other Loewe SL series TV so you can pause the TV program and pick up where you left off in another room.
It works thanks to a hard drive within the main TV which acts as a PVR. It then streams either Live TV or archived recordings to your second Loewe using LAN, or Wi-Fi connections.
Given that Loewe TVs range between $4,000 and $9,000, it’s a fairly expensive feature for a fairly expensive designer TV, but given the growing number of connected TVs on the market, features like this are only a firmware update away for many TVs.
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Simon Reidy
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 3:07 PMLoewe TVs used to be king of image quality back in the SD widescreen CRT days (I used to sell them!) but now they are all about cheap glass panels with decent processing, but way overpriced “artsy aesthetics”.
While the seamless streaming from one TV to another is a nice feature, you could set up something similar yourself for a far cheaper price with better quality, larger panels from companies like Panasonic (if you want plasma) or Sony (if you want side lit LED LCD). Then just have a cheap PVR in each room. Problem solved!
TSH
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 3:44 PMLOEWE SD widescreen CRT love! <3'd mine but have always been a Samsung fanboi for monitors and LCDs, hence the upgrade to a Sammy HDTV.
FWIW I reckon (as usual) it's a matter of hassle vs. price. No doubt you could get it set up with other gear, but LOEWE's customers would probably rather spend the bux for the product and installation cost to have something that "just works".