Connecting Broadcast TV and the Web using a resolver « NoTube blog
Interesting post on the technology behind connecting Broadcast TV and the Web.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, but I’d wager a large amount of cash that within 12 months we’ll have secondary devices (like, say, the rumoured IOS AppleTV) that will revolutionize the way we surf TV - it’s been a long time coming but connecting internet enabled devices with TV streams will happen, and I think it’ll happen very soon.
Whether it is Apple who are first out of the starting blocks (again I’ll wager it is an IOS AppleTV that really nails this) I forsee a TV that is aware of a ‘smart-remote’.
For Apple this is a cinch, get an Apple TV in the home and your various iPods, iPads and Laptop can all become large, smart, touch screen controllers.
noTube points out the reasons why…
“NoTube is about TV and the Web, and one aspect of this is connecting broadcast TV and the Web. This connection need not (and, we often argue, should not) manifest itself on the TV screen. It’s much more useful in most cases for audiences to have access to the Web on a second screen, such as a laptop, phone or tablet, because this avoids problems of on-screen clutter, co-watcher irritation, and laborious text entry.
For this second screen to be able to do interesting things such as provide more information about the programme, provide interactive applications, or interesting EPG navigation, it needs to be able to receive information about what is happening on the TV device.
For example, if the second screen is running a voting application for ‘Kittens do the cutest things’, where you can vote for your favourite clip, then the second screen needs to know what programme is playing, and which clip is showing.”
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Seriously… you heard it here first. AppleTV plus iPad = TV Surfing heaven.
