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A brilliant new iPad experience. Apple's universal remote concept hints at future television set. By Neil Hughes Apple has shown interest in building a new, simplified remote control that would automatically control a variety of devices while reducing setup and frustration for the user.
The concept was revealed this week in a new patent application discovered by AppleInsider. Entitled "Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control," it describes a touchscreen-based controller that would reduce the confusing clutter found on current universal remotes. Ziba Jumps Into Race For A Great Web TV Interface, With M-Go. It began with a concept video.
Commissioned by film industry giant Technicolor and created in 2010 by Ziba, it depicted a day in the life of two people, living in a fictional future where the tools to manage our many screens of content made sense. "It was a visioneering piece," says Ryan Coulter, creative director at Ziba. That video became a road map, which guided a partnership between both companies to design a better way for people to keep control of the media landscape. Stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr11/UK_CMR_2011_FINAL.pdf.
Tech. Img.en25.com/Web/KITdigitalInc/%7Bdb3815db-bb81-4eac-8cc1-d3a7cfe2dc8f%7D_KITD_From_IPTV_to_OTT.pdf. Being Daniel Danker. "There’s an expectation and a responsibility to be excellent" says the head of BBC iPlayer In a wide-ranging interview, Daniel Danker, the BBC's General Manager, Programmes and On Demand, tells VOD Professional about how the BBC technology teams operate internally, what their best practices are and how the iPlayer has developed for televisions, tablets, computers and mobiles.
Behind the Scenes. Summary Remember the giant, interactive touch screen that detective John Anderton used to fight pre-crime in the movie, Minority Report?
Remember how crazy and far-fetched that concept seemed at the time? And that was only 2002! Fast forward to present-day, and you will find the new Mill Touch at the center at our Mill New York office. Executed from concept to launch in-house by our NY Digital team, it is a rear projected, 5’x 3’ interactive touch screen panel made entirely of switchable glass. tBone TV coming to connected television. Anthony Rose, who rose to prominence by re-launching the BBC iPlayer and went on to become the chief technology officer of YouView, is now betting on a new startup to bring social recommendation to television.
He has re-emerged as the co-founder and chief technology officer of tBone TV, and he has attracted some of the software team from YouView to work with him. He left YouView, the joint venture between the BBC and other broadcasters and broadband service providers, after just eight months in December 2010. An Accenture consultant replaced him as head of technical delivery, as it became increasingly apparent that the launch of the YouView platform was behind schedule. Meanwhile, a range of network connected televisions are already bringing services such as the BBC iPlayer direct to the main living room screen, with millions expected to be sold in Britain this year. Microsoft Campus Tours - The Microsoft Home.
Yahoo buys social TV startup IntoNow. GOAB iPad App Brings TV Watching Into the Internet Age. It's not just ADD-addled teenagers stabbing at their smartphones while "watching" TV anymore -- it's all of us.
(What does refreshing my Twitter feed do to improve my experience of watching 30 Rock? Don't ask.) Meanwhile, "web TV" experiments like Google TV have gone over like a lead balloon with consumers. Syzygy Lab connects these dots into a concept product that actually makes sense, even if it's horribly named: Their GOAB tablet app will turn your iPad into the interactive smart TV remote of your dreams. The designers' central insight makes total sense: Why disrupt the one thing TV does perfectly well -- showing big pretty pictures -- with a bunch of onscreen interactive doodads? Now that everyone has an all-purpose, interactive screen within arms' reach 24/7, it makes sense to offload everything but the picture onto a handheld device rather than junking up the TV screen with more information. Apps for telly. Last week, the BBC Trust gingerly announced provisional approval of the BBC’s Project Canvas.
The aim of Project Canvas is to define a set of standards for set-top boxes that will allow integration of web and TV. Although, it isn’t clear exactly what the standards will consist of and what Project Canvas’ vision of IPTV really is. Set-top box manufacturers such as Thomson, Humax and Cisco are involved and have committed to share intellectual property relating to Canvas with the rest of their industry. Content providers such as ITV, Channel 4 and 5 are enrolled within the organisational structure of Canvas itself, as are broadband providers such as BT, TalkTalk and Carphone Warehouse.
Google has also voiced clear support during public consultation. Canvas won’t create, aggregate or sell content or act as an ISP. But who really wants Internet-enabled TV? Bear with me for a moment, but for me the Internet is a very personal medium. Fundamentally, TV is more fun together. BBC Internet Blog: Opportunities for BBC News Online in IPTV. Microsoft Surface CES 2011 Demo. Roku Channel Database. Broadcast Yourself.
Guidelines. Our tvs need a fixin' : greg kepler. Future of Screen Technology. Second screen. BBC Internet Blog: Project Canvas Chairman appointed. BBC TV blog: I'm still amazed, horrified, and moved by the pitches in Dragons' Den. Connected TV: The New Battle for Your Living Room [INFOGRAPHIC] After years of false-starts and not-quite-there implementations, it appears that the connected TV revolution is upon us.
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Finally, consumers will have access to affordable technology that will let them access web content and content from their Macs or PCs from the comfort of the couch, without expensive HTPC setups or complicated software. The battle for the living room is finally here. Three of the big contenders in this space are the new Apple TV, the upcoming Boxee Box, and the recently updated Roku XDS. All three units work without a hard drive and stream content in HD from the web to your TV. All three also offer the ability to access non-web content too (via add-ons or over a network). How do these devices stack up when it comes to price, features and supported services? As an aside, one other contender in this space, Google TV, is also coming this fall. BBC Internet Blog: Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand. BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal)
BBC Internet Blog: BBC iPlayer gets even better. Is The Future Of TV In Social Networking? - Parmy Olson - Tea & Tech. Breaking out of the box. The Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast. Twitter and The Apprentice – some quick observations. Posted by Roo - 12/10/10 at 12:10:19 pm I wrote last year about the ‘data flood’ that confronts you if you try to watch what everyone on Twitter is saying about the Apprentice.
Well, it’s back, and more talked about than ever. Aleks Krotoski : [NPOX10] The Cult of Me: a primer for broadcasters. This is the text of my keynote from the NPOX10 Festival, held in September 2010 in Hilversum, Holland Hello and thank you for inviting me to open this exciting two-day event. I am speaking to you as a woman who wears several hats, including the two that I’m going to focus on today: I am a social psychologist with a particular interest in how information, attitudes and behaviours spread around the Web, and I am a broadcaster and journalist with an interest in the intersection between digital – or ‘interactive’ – media and traditional – or ‘passive’ – media. The Virtual Revolution - Home. Tumbled Logic - Widget, it’s got a widget… < The assorted witterings of Mo McRoberts. Widget, it’s got a widget… The third revision of the Apple TV is out (the second revision was a minor bump relatively early-on in its lifespan), Google launched the proper publicity materials for the impending Google TV, the Boxee Box is due to land any day now, Project Canvas has become YouView, and when consumer electronics manufacturers aren’t breathlessly trying to tell you about how 3DTV will save television (not that it’s clear that it actually needs saving), they’re breathlessly trying to tell you how “Connected” devices (what, you thought your TV was plugged into something already?
Shame on you!) TV and My Generation at IN THE MODE. Can Widgets Save the Television Industry? YouView.
(Future Of TV) How To Enhance The Viewing Experience, Rather Than Interrupt It. We’ve been discussing the future of TV here at PSFK – most recently with Avner Ronen of Boxee, whom spoke at the PSFK Conference in New York last month about this precise topic. Bob Greenberg, CEO at R/GA, recently provided some additional perspective in AdWeek. The increasing availability of smart phones and tablets (i.e., the iPad) illustrates the reality that the number of screens on which a consumer can view – or interact with – TV programming is increasing. Greenberg asserts that the amount of content we consume will therefore continue to increase, and that the way we consume it will continue to broaden. Content will consequently have to be produced, distributed and monetized differently than in the past. The future of TV: technologies to watch. The future of TV. Future is TV-shaped, says Intel. By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel.
It said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative. "TV is out of the box and off the wall," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told BBC News. "TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want. " Mr Rattner said: "We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet. "People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven't in the past.
" Speaking at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, he said the success of TV was due to the growing number of ways to consume content. Today that includes everything from the traditional box in the corner of the living room to smartphones, laptops, netbooks, desktops and mobile internet devices. Infinite choice "Don't make my TV act like a PC. IMAX quality.