Smart TV and Data Mining

Smart TVs are coming. In this year's CES conference, the largest consumer electronics show each year in Las Vegas, every TV manufacturer is bragging about the "smartness" of their TV. All the TVs are now have Internet connectivity, have camera, display content from your smart phone, and play movies from youTube and Netflix. Even more, smart TVs have connection to Facebook, allow you to make Skype calls, and answers you voice command like Siri does on the iPhone.

The most interesting function for me is their capability of making movie recommendations.

 This means every TV has to remember and capture user’s viewing history, and possibly combine with the server’s knowledge about other viewers’ view data. All the information will be sent and stored in  TV maker's server. They will chunk the data, and build movie recommendation engine exactly like Netflix has done. 

This is a big advance for data mining. This is possible only after TV is connect to the Internet and store data in the cloud. Traditional TV does not have the computing power nor enough memory to do data mining. 

Now we are seeing data mining coming to our home.