Active-TV Ecosystem Developers,
Linked below is a long article on the new Apple TV box. Some of the key comments are: “A better bet, Swann said, is for cable and satellite television providers to upgrade their existing set-top boxes so that they can download material off the Internet, something that they have begun to do, albeit on a limited basis so far.”
Adding internet access to existing platforms is exactly the path being taken by active-TV technology. Like Apple TV, with active-TV technology the user can “wirelessly beam music, photos and videos … to your living room television”.
Another important comment is: “It doesn't work with clips that stream on YouTube”. As introduced, Apple TV is a relatively closed system. In the US, the cable company controls the channel choice. Apple TV expands living room choice to include internet content streamed or download from Apple. However, platforms supporting active-TV technology enable anyone to build a TV-web channel and offer it to the living room TV.
more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/22/BUGE7NLDUN1.DTL
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Apple and Tivo both delayed ?
Active-TV Ecosytem Developers,
Many expected Apple to showoff its living room box this week. Many also expected Tivo to have released its next generation box. And more expected to see ViiV ecosystem client boxes – what happened?
Other than what might happen with Bluray, it is clear that the living room is evolving to use a Hybrid-STB – enabling its interconnect with an Extended-PC. In the US retail market, this means a STB with ATSC, CableCard and IP-TV. I know ATSC and CableCard have many critics, but this is the best that can be done unless a deal is made with an established service provider.
Without access to embedded CA (conditional access protection), an Apple living room box might have a similar specification to the future Tivo Series 3 described below. Did Intel fail to get a ViiV Hybrid-STB running in time for CES? Active-TV colaborators demonstrated a very similar STB with an Extended-Notebook at CES last week. They started the Hybrid-STB approach early. It has taken time to get it all working, so they are very familiar with how hard it is to complete the necessary technical development.
The major differences now lie in how the TV User Interface will be supported. Apple say Front Row, Tivo say microbrowser (with Java projection). Active-TV technology is currently supporting Media Center Edition UI (or other projected PC-runtime UI).
More at http://www.tivolovers.com/252572.html
Many expected Apple to showoff its living room box this week. Many also expected Tivo to have released its next generation box. And more expected to see ViiV ecosystem client boxes – what happened?
Other than what might happen with Bluray, it is clear that the living room is evolving to use a Hybrid-STB – enabling its interconnect with an Extended-PC. In the US retail market, this means a STB with ATSC, CableCard and IP-TV. I know ATSC and CableCard have many critics, but this is the best that can be done unless a deal is made with an established service provider.
Without access to embedded CA (conditional access protection), an Apple living room box might have a similar specification to the future Tivo Series 3 described below. Did Intel fail to get a ViiV Hybrid-STB running in time for CES? Active-TV colaborators demonstrated a very similar STB with an Extended-Notebook at CES last week. They started the Hybrid-STB approach early. It has taken time to get it all working, so they are very familiar with how hard it is to complete the necessary technical development.
The major differences now lie in how the TV User Interface will be supported. Apple say Front Row, Tivo say microbrowser (with Java projection). Active-TV technology is currently supporting Media Center Edition UI (or other projected PC-runtime UI).
More at http://www.tivolovers.com/252572.html
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