Television systems

The VideoWave television was released in 2010.

The "VideoWave" was a television sold by Bose from 2010 until 2015. It consisted of a 46-inch LCD television with an enlarged Bose Wave Radio attached to its rear surface. Also included was a Lifestyle control center that allowed for connection of additional sources, an Apple iPod docking station, as well as A/M and F/M radio. It featured high-frequency aiming of sound (termed "PhaseGuide" by Bose) simulates surround sound and that aiming the six speakers in opposite directions reduces vibration.

Shown to the press on September 28, 2010 it went on sale on October 14, 2010. A microphone was included to help tune the system for the room acoustics (termed "AdaptiQ" by Bose), much like many home theatre receivers. The VideoWave was judged to have good audio quality, video quality and features, but was criticized for costing more than an equivalent traditional setup (i.e. using an AV receiver and surround sound speakers).

The final version of the television, the "Videowave III", was sold from 2013 until 2015.

## Timeline of Soundbar and TV systems

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Systems have been color coded by their receiver models.
Sources: Bose owners guides
## VideoWave

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Bose's first TV is a complete home-theater speaker system in a 46-inch 1080p LCD TV which includes 16 speakers a Bose designed receiver, an iPod dock, and a RF "click pad" universal remote. Bose developed a technology called PhaseGuide that sends high-frequency sound from the set to every corner of the room and simulates surround sound. Behind the screen, Bose included one of their WaveGuides that is more than 6 feet in length and powered by an array of six speakers. They combine to push air through it and face in opposite directions to reduce vibrations. Shown to the press on September 28, 2010 it went on sale on October 14, 2010.

### Click pad

The universal RF remote has only a few buttons on it – Power, Input, Channel, Volume, Mute, and Back. In the center, there's a directional pad, surrounded by a touch pad that takes up about a third of the remote's space. The touch pad is essentially a universal remote, with most controls on the screen. When you connect a device like a TiVo or an iPod to the VideoWave, it embeds the controls into the system itself. When you put your finger on the touchpad, the picture on the screen shrinks, and around it appears a rectangle menu with all the controls for what you're looking at—you'll see different menus for an iPod than for a TiVo, both of which are different than a Blu-ray player. Using the touch pad, which Bose calls the "click pad," you scroll around the screen and click the proper menu button on the pad itself. The positions are absolute, so once you learn where "Guide" is on the screen, just a tap in that spot on the click pad. Navigating the guide works with the directional pad, which handled all the on-screen menus well. The remote is designed to replace all the remotes for your various devices and systems.

### AdaptIQ

The key feature of the system is the ADAPTiQ audio calibration system which allows for the system to adapt to the owner's personal living room environment. The system plays tones through each speaker and listens with a microphone headset worn by the user, and based on what it hears the media center will calibrate and equalize each speaker to compensate for any acoustic abnormalities in the room. In this manner any Lifestyle system will sound as good as the professional demonstration in any size living room.

### VideoStage 5

VideoStage 5 is a technology Bose includes to convert any stereo or mono source into surround sound.

### BoseLink

Boselink allows the system to expand to 14 additional listening areas and can connect to any other Boselink device, there is also a wireless expansion option. Listeners use a local radio frequency remote to communicated back to the main system thus allowing it to control the volume and to select the audio source for that room.

### Unify

This system guides users through installation of any products connect to the system through an on-screen wizard. It uses a reverse lookup to recognize the remote of 3rd party products to program its own universal remote.

## References

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