C: No ,
C: but just a rechargeable internal battery would probably I mean it might cost more to at first to develop and to install ,
D: Mm-hmm
C: but for long-term use it'll be so much more convenient and economic than fiddling around trying to replace chunky A_A_ batteries and not having any in your kitchen drawer
D: Mm-hmm .
C: and
B: So
C: you know f
B: do you think we might make that a selling point if it was something that we found we could afford to develop ?
D: Definitely ,
D: 'cause I'm thinking in terms of um uh the loss and breakage of um remotes ,
A: Mm .
D: how much of that is is to do with it not really having a uh a home , a um a nest , a place to live ,
C: Mm .
A: Mm .
C: Sort of have its little dock that you could put it in .
B: D: exactly .
A: Yeah .
D: So if you can dock it , um you know , you could s argue that this is A: And the dock could look very fancy
D: Exactly .
A: and that could be your inspiration of having it looking decent .
C: Still I don't know if it's quite within our price range .
D: Mm .
A: Hmm .
D: 'Cause you are talking about another component , like another piece of hardware .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
D: Mm .
A: Okay .
A: Are we agreed as to what our target group is though ?
A: Pretty much ,
A: so that we'd be looking for the younger end .
D: Well
D: I I brought up some D: exactly ,
D: but I think you raised some good questions
D: about are there enough of these people out there ,
D: or are they making purchasing decisions ?
B: Mm .
D: You know ,
B: Yeah ,
D: these are the A: Mm .
B: I was wondering that ,
B: because I ag I agree that there there're people with uh how can I put it , more money than sense
B: and who are liable to buy something new ,
A: I I s usually put more money than brains .
D: Yeah , exactly .
B: but B: Bu but what I was gonna say was , although they they may be buying um , you know , personal music devices and all that ,
D: Oh oh oh
D: I'll make a note of that , Kate .
D: Good , good comment .
B: are they necessarily buying T_V_ remote controls ?
B: Because they probably live in a household that has a T_V_ if they're at the lower end of the age range ,
D: Yeah .
D: It might be good to know
B: I don't know .
C: Yeah .
D: um uh who , you know , who's actually buying televisions
D: and are we in a uh uh s region where people have more than one television in a home ?
B: Mm . I think we've got a big hill to climb here ,
B: haven't we ?
B: I mean we've gotta persuade people who've got a remote control 'cause it came with the telly that they should buy our product instead .
D: Yeah .
A: Mm .
D: Yeah .
A: Yeah .
A: Or do we s make sure that it goes to the man through the manufacturer ?
A: We sell to the manufacturer as the remote that goes with it .
B: Right , good point . Yeah , yeah okay , yeah .
D: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah . Yeah , good point .
D: Yeah .
C: That's probably more what it is .
A: What would be a more efficient way of doing it ?
D: Yeah ,
D: and and some of our D_V_D_ players incidentally have them ,
D: because we have the relationship with our own department ,
D: but moreover we need to to go for the the manufacturers .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay . Right .
C: We're not gonna get any resolutions by the end of the day ,
C: are we ?
A: Probably not .
D: Mm .
A: Um the other thing that we're supposed to do is make decision on our functions .
A: Our functions , we've so far decided , I think , that power , channel , volume make it attractive .
A: Um it has to have an enter key and of course the number keys .
A: It has to have big user-friendly buttons
A: and sh n definitely we wanna be inspired
A: that the current styles are just plain awful .
C: Yeah .
D: Do we need um let me A: Is that agreeable to everyone ?
D: Br actually , um
B: Mm-hmm .
D: the enter key D: I have a chart here that I didn't include . Um
A: Mm-hmm .
B: Do you want the gizmo ?
D: yeah ,
D: which might A: Throw some light on that .
D: Th
D: yeah ,
D: th those are D: felt like had a lot of charts . A: Um actually we're , you know , we are almost a half hour out of the forty minutes ,
A: so we have to get close to finishing . D: Okay ,
D: I I D: my only comment is I think maybe um we could somehow include an enter key in like a power key if power power was enter and pow that was my only just really in terms of streamlining .
A: Ah .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay .
D: Um A: Enter , power as a s oh um a sum simultaneous key .
D: Exactly .
D: Again , you know ,
A: Is that okay with you ?
D: thinking of menus or C: Sorry ,
C: I was miles away .
A: Would that  B: H how does that work ?
D: Um well
C: I was re I was reading the chart to be honest .
B: How so so how does that work ,
A: uh-huh .
B: how do you avoid switching the thing off when you actually wanna press enter ?
D: if you're pressing enter , the the thing would already be on ,
D: and so maybe um when you press power , initially it turns it on ,
D: press power again and use that as an enter um D: so you press power after you've
A: Then you'd have to have an off te off key .
D: um well
D: I was thinking maybe you to turn it off you'd have to press power twice in succession ,
B: Okay , yep , mm-hmm .
D: and maybe power follows something like a channel up channel down power , and then that would make that choice .
A: Mm .
B: It's not getting a bit complicated ?
B: Could granny do this ,
D: Well B: or are we just not aiming at granny ?
D: Or y
D: yeah .
D: Or something that has a a turning dial , where at the far end is on or off . C: Who's got an iPod then ? D: Yeah ,
B: D: I don't A: Mm . Okay .
D: um I wish .
D: Anyway , uh D: that was the only comment about um some of the the decisions people have made , what's most important .
D: It's definitely channel , volume , power .
A: Mm .
C: Yeah ,
C: things like screen settings and audio settings , I would generally do them on the actual television itself ,
D: Exactly .
C: like here you have a you know , a little flap th with a little control panel on the actual box itself .
D: Exactly .
C: I I wouldn't know how to do it using a remote control ,
D: Yeah .
C: so um I would say that they are definitely less relevant .
D: Okay , well .
A: Okay . So
D: Thanks for looking at that .
A: I guess easy to use is the other thing that we want 'em to be able to do .
D: Mm-hmm .
D: We don't wanna outsmart A: As you said , you know , don't make it too hard for the granny . A: I just joined that set last week .
D: Hmm .
A: Um first grandchild arrived .
D: Congratulations . B: Mm . C: B: Uh .
A: Um so are we agreed then of those things ?
A: And let's go back to agenda
D: D
A: and hook me up .
A: Mm . This oughta be fun .
A: It probably won't go the first time ,
A: it'll probably be like a g mess .
A: Come on .
A: Uh it lost it off here . Uh D: Oh
D: you're fine . It's fine .
A: No ,
A: it was up there ,
A: but I couldn't see it down here .
A: Mm . This time it should be both .
A: There we go .
B: How do you do that ? How do you make it do both ?
A: Um you have to keep doing the financi the the F_N_ and F_ eight to B: Ah okay ,
A: five minutes to finish ,
B: it toggles through ,
A: thank you a lot for telling me .
B: yeah .
B: D: I think you have to cycle through .
A: Um right ,
B: Yeah .
A: we're ready to close .
A: Um will be completed q questionnaire ,
A: um then we'll have some time for individual work to continue our research um
A: and I'll put some minutes of this meeting together .
A: Um your individual assignments are for um Kate to do the components ,
A: for you , Steph , to do the user interface
A: and for you the trend-watching .
A: Um and each of us will get help from our coach .
A: Are we agreed to get ourselves together and then have lunch ?
C: Yes .
B: Sounds good .
A: Okay .
A: Then that's the end of this meeting .
A: And I hope that's good enough for her to tell her that's the end .
A: Okay ?
B: Okay .
C: We didn't come to any sort of decision on the functions though .
A: Well
A: I think I went over the functions
A: and wrote them down
C: Alright ,
A: and marked them .
C: well
C: that's fine then .
A: Um that's what I went over and nobody was objecting to them .
D: Okay .
D: Um and you'd mentioned I
D: I was just gonna say ,
D: could you reiterate the new project requirements ,
D: because it they were A: Okay .
D: it has to be for a T_V_ ,
D: just to keep myself A: Um the teletext is outdated ,
B: So
B: we're still in meeting ,
B: aren't we ? D: Yeah ,
A: the internet is important ,
D: I think I've A: it's only to be for a T_V_
A: and it must include the corporate image , colour and slogan um
D: Okay .
A: which I think is more in the user uh range , with Steph .
C: Mm .
C: Sorry ,
C: what what actually are these C: is that the yellow and black ?
A: It doesn't tell me .
D: Mm .
C: From their C: I'll just use it from their website .
A: Mm-hmm .
A: Okay ?
C: Okay .
B: Okay .
D: Right .
D: Thank you .