Clever NYT article on the nightmare of modern home theater systems:
N artificial intelligence, they have the Turing Test: Can a computer impersonate a human well enough to fool a researcher? In magic, they have the Book Test: Can a magician mind-read well enough to divine a word chosen at random? And in the home-theater field, they have the Baby Sitter Test: Is your system simple enough that a guest can turn on the TV unaided?
Unfortunately, only my best friend and I know how to operate my home theater system, but I haven’t been willing to invest the time to record all the macros necessary to make it user friendly (no babysitters come over to encourage me).
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