蘋果或推iTV只需命令或手勢即可控制

The Apple computer company is devising a new television, nicknamed the iTV, which not only hears your shouts and sees your gestures – but can understand them too.

And according to an American technology analyst, the revolutionary new interactive sets may be available by late next year.

Similar technology can already be employed by the Xbox gaming console, but the new TV controlling facility in development by Apple is believed to have many more uses.

The new television is likely to make it easy to access whole films from the internet and watch them on the big screen, introducing powerful competition to pay TV firms such as BskyB.

Speculation about Apple’s plans for a new TV grew after the death last month of Apple founder Steve Jobs, with him being quoted in a posthumous biography as saying: "I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use."

"It would be seamlessly synched with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."

And in October it emerged that the US patent office had received details of an Apple device for "real-time video process control using gestures".

These gestures could be used, for example, to edit videos or transfer footage from the TV to a telephone. iPhones have recently been given new voice control abilities which could potentially be used on the new television.據英國《每日郵報》11月27日報道，蘋果公司正在研製一種綽號爲iTV的新型電視機，這種電視機不但允許你可以向它叫喊或打手勢——而且還能理解這些行爲的意思。

據一位美國技術分析師分析，這種革命性的新型互動電視有可能在明年年底面世。

微軟遊戲機已經將類似的技術應用於自己的遊戲主機，但是這一由蘋果公司研發的新型電視控制裝置被認爲會擁有更多的用途。

這種新型電視有可能讓用戶更容易地從網絡獲取整部電影資源以及享受大屏幕的觀賞效果。這引起了蘋果公司與BskyB一類的付費電視公司之間的激烈競爭。

當蘋果公司創始人——史蒂文-喬布斯於上月(10月)辭世後，有關該公司推出新型電視的猜測愈演愈烈。在喬布斯離世後出版的自傳中他本人曾提到：“我希望研製出一款操作一體化、很容易使用的電視機。”

“它將實現與你所有的設備及iCloud的無縫同步，它能擁有你所能想象到的最簡化操作界面。我最終做到了。”

而就在十月，美國專利局收到了一份蘋果公司設備的詳細資料，該設備能“通過手勢控制實時資訊”。

舉例來說，這些手勢能編輯視頻文件或將電視鏡頭轉移到電話操作界面。iPhone手機最新的聲控功能很有可能會被應用到這款新型電視機上。