TV Apps Copy iPhone Features
By Babar Bhatti | March 9, 2010 | No Comments
The success of iPhone has not only changed the way phone companies and handset makers operate but also impacted other media channels. For instance, companies are now racing to build marketplaces for TV programs that act much like iPhone apps, able to interact with social-networking services, play games, call up movies and other Web content—all using a remote control, rather than a computer equipped with browsers. With PTCL and Wateen in the smart TV game, its only a matter of time before we see more of this.
I previously wrote about some initial steps that Verizon took. with social apps as widgets. Yahoo was also an early contender with a technology for TV applications it calls widgets. The TV applications are designed to exploit new consumer electronics devices with Internet connections that are beginning to appear in homes in significant numbers. More from this article:
Vudu, a startup that offers a streaming movie service; DivX, known for a popular format for storing digital movies; Boxee Inc., which offers software that lets users view Internet content on TVs; Roku, which sells a set-top box for receiving Internet content; and Syabas Technology, which announced a set-top box at CES.
Vizio Inc., a U.S. TV maker that has been pushing Internet-connected sets, was among the first to use the term apps for TV software. Besides using Yahoo’s widgets, the company worked with Adobe Systems Inc. to adapt the popular Flash format to offer a second ways for developers to write TV apps.
The company this week announced Vudu Apps, which it describes as a platform to deliver Internet software to TVs, Blu-ray players and other products.
Vudu says it already has attracted 100 apps, which appear in a menu that users can call up on the TV screen using a remote. They include versions of Web services like the photo-sharing site Flickr, the music-discovery site Pandora, the microblogging site Twitter and a news feed from the Associated Press. Initial TV makers expected to incorporate the technology are units of Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Sanyo Electronic Co., Sharp Corp. and Toshiba Corp.
DivX, meanwhile, says it has lined LG Electronics as an initial user of its new software platform in LG Blu-ray players. The San Diego-based company also says it has attracted content apps from sites that include Twitter, Daily Motion, Rhapsody and CNET, and says its DivX TV platform can help users find and call up movies and photos stored on computers in the home.
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