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Whatever you design, it must either provide your user utility or entertainment. (If it doesn’t do either, then you should not pursue it – or approach new design.)

[Original post] OpenTV according to wikipedia OpenTV’s main business involves the sale of set-top-box operating systems and software, predominantly OpenTV Core, it’s digital TV middleware, which has an API for enabling iTV application development independent of hardware. The API allows generic deployments as physical hardware is treated as independent from broadcast network features. OpenTV’s software [...]

[Original post: http://dgolan.com/blog/archives/769] Current TV, is the cable TV channel and parallel website started by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, that launched August 1st, 2005. It has evolved in part as a response to the lack of independent (translated: extremely liberal) media coverage as well as the widespread interest in user generated news content. CurrentTV [...]

Future TV: a2TV concept presentation

[Original Post: http://itp.nyu.edu/futureoftv/?p=213] LimelightREACH (formerly known as Kiptronic) One thing that’s not as simple to do as it sounds in today’s world is to be able to see the same video on different mobile platforms. The idea of Kiptronic, which is now LimeLight, is to be able to publish one video file and let the [...]

[Original post: http://itp.nyu.edu/futureoftv/?p=132] One of my fondest memories is of my father’s old Sony Watchman. The Watchman was like a walkman, but was a TV tuner rather than a cassette player. The beauty of the Watchman is that you could tune to standard network channels on the go as it ran on batteries and was [...]