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Here comes Google TV - Google TV Blog - 0 views

  • new way to think about TV
  • r current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.
  • Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friends—all on the big screen.
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  • HBO will bring access to hundreds of hours of programming to Google TV with HBO GO. Authenticated subscribers w
  • n. Amazon Video On Demand offers access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and Netflix
Alex Street

Digital Consumer » Blog Archive » GoogleTV: "You Get the Idea" - 0 views

  • Cord cutting is fast becoming a reality
  • cord cutters” exceeding 10% of US television households
  • GoogleTV talking points bill the platform as “complementary”
Alex Street

android - How can I distinguish phone from tablet - Stack Overflow - 0 views

  • tablets in terms of screen size
  • detecting the dpi. (My phone dpi is 254, my tablet is 149) b
  • hinking about tablets in terms of whether or not you can place a phone call
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  • Honeycomb tablet version (Android 3.0) ? You can use System.getProperty
  • build your app so it handles different screen sizes, different OS versions, and different features being available or absent
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MediaTel: Newsline: MGEITF 2010: Canvas bows down to Google TV - 0 views

  • product is primarily a navigation device.
  • esearch consistently shows that audiences don't actually want this kind of clutter on their TV screen.
  • people are actually resistant to convergence on this scale
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  • Google's main aim for this initially is to create more search revenue
  • no monetisation of programme searching
  • ternet browser;
  • er different formats for viewers and different ways to monetise content.
  • emand is still less than 8% of total TV viewing
  • 'RIP Scheduled TV?'
  • o from Google's Jill Szuchmacher,
Alex Street

Google TV to launch this year | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • global TV advertising market
  • oogle TV service,
  • turised version of his Apple TV
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  • full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers
  • Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies:
  • HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitec
  • small apps
  • Adobe's Flash
  • t how easy it will be to integrate content
  • QWERTY keyboards" b
  • t a distance, with one hand, in the dark.
Alex Street

US companies prepare for OTT market | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • OTT video is happening now, with over 37 million broadband households in the US downloading online video
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    Penetration, usage and size of market 
Alex Street

Growing interest for OTT and Connected TV | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • 2013, In-Stat predicts that nearly 40% of all digital TV shipments will be web-enabled devices
  • 2009, there were five broadband households worldwide for every web-enabled CE device. By 2013, this ratio will be 2:1.
Alex Street

Apple TV vs. the competition -- how does it stack up? -- Engadget - 0 views

  • media streamer on the market -
  • Sony's Netbox and the Boxee Box o
  • Roku HD-XR, Popbox
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  • LG Blu-ray playe
  • MLB.TV and most recently Hulu Plus
  • becoming more readily available thanks to Netflix's increasing popularity, but also from
  • Two years ago the average Roku customer used our product 11 hours a month, but now it's 43 hours a month
  • direct to customers (on roku.com)
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Designing For TV - Google TV - Google Code - 0 views

  • muted colors
  • fonts and buttons were increased
  • learly highlighted
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  • D-pad up/down/left/right
  • l padding
  • traditional web page harder to read, cluttered, and more difficult to perform basic task
  • When designing a web page for TV, the viewable area should display less information overall
  • all content "above the fold"
  • horizontal real estate
  • navigation is better handled from the side
  • Vertical scrolling, while fundamental on a desktop browser, may not be as appealing on the TV UI
  • better approach is to make use of horizontal layouts and visual transitions
  • Elements on the page should have large selection surfaces for mouse users.
  • Expanding the surface
Alex Street

Google TV's First Apps - 0 views

  • Android 2.1 and will include Chrome 5.0
  • Adobe Flash 10.1
  • pre-load a few high-quality apps
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