Information Appliance

Information appliance is a kind of low price, convenient operation, strong practicability, with PC main function of home appliance products. Use of computer, telecommunication and electronic technology and the traditional home appliances ( including white goods: refrigerator, washing machine, microwave ovens and other household appliances : televisions, video recorders and black, audio, VCD, DVD ) combination of innovative products, digital and network technology is more widely used in family life and the design of new household appliances, information household electrical appliances including PC, set-top box, HPC, DVD, super VCD, wireless data communication equipment, video game device, WEBTV, INTERNE telephone and so on, all can pass through the network interaction information home appliance products, can be called an information appliance. At present, audio, video and communications equipment is the main component of information appliance. On the other hand, in the current traditional home appliance on the basis of the information technology, integration of traditional home appliances, making it more powerful, more simple, convenient and practical, for family life to create more high-quality living environment, such as analog TV into the development of digital TV, VCD into DVD, freezer, washing machine, microwave ovens will become digital, networked, intelligent information household appliances.

From a general point of classification, information appliances product actually contains a product of network home appliance, but if from a narrow to define, we can do a simple classification: information appliances more finger with embedded processor small household ( person ) information equipment, it is the basic characteristics and network ( mainly refers to the Internet ). But there are some specific functions, can be a complete sets of products, can also be an auxiliary parts. Network appliance refers to a network operation function of the household appliances, the appliance can understand our original common home appliance product upgrade.