Information Appliance

Information appliance should be a kind of low cost, simple operation, practical strong, with a PC as the main function of appliance product. Using the computer, telecommunications and electronic technology and traditional electrical appliances (including the white goods: refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens and black appliances: TV, video, audio, VCD, DVD, etc.), the combination of innovative products for the digital and network technology is more widely and deeply family life and design new household appliances, information appliances include PC, STB, HPC, DVD, super VCD, wireless data communication equipment, video game equipment, WEBTV, INTERNE phone, etc, all can exchange information through the network system of electrical appliances product, can call information home appliances. At present, audio, video and communications equipment is the main component of information appliances. On the other hand, the present, on the basis of traditional home appliance to information technology into the traditional home appliance in the center, make its function more powerful, use more simple, convenient and practical for family life create higher quality life environment, such as analog TV development into digital TV, VCD into DVD, refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens will also become digitization, network, intelligent information home appliances.

Judging from the broad classification, information appliance product actually contains a network appliances products, but if in narrow definition to define, we can do a simple classification: information appliance more refers to the small household with embedded processor (individual use) information equipment and its basic characteristics are and network (mainly refers to the Internet) connected and some specific functions, can be the complete set product, also can be an auxiliary parts. And network appliances is refers to an network operation function of household appliances, this kind of home appliance can understand is that we originally common electrical appliances product upgrades.