Bluetooth is no natural extension. It has very limited range and is intended for 2-way short-range comm not one-way like remotes. BT has never really worked out past the personal-space area such as cellphones. Few people use it for remote controls because it has such limited range. RF is the natural extension here, not BT.
The only reason Sony used it was because it "came with" a chip they were already using. Why add $5 to every remote when only PS3 users will benefit?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Bluetooth is no natural extension. It has very limited range and is intended for 2-way short-range comm not one-way like remotes. BT has never really worked out past the personal-space area such as cellphones. Few people use it for remote controls because it has such limited range. RF is the natural extension here, not BT.
The only reason Sony used it was because it "came with" a chip they were already using. Why add $5 to every remote when only PS3 users will benefit?