Samsung Apps Contest 2010
It seems Samsung has plans to start its own TV Appstore with applications using Flash Lite for Digital Home. Samsung announced new “Internet@TV” service, where user can download the various kind of applications onto Samsung DTV through internet with its own UI and service client.
Currently, Samsung provides the SDK to only register CPs. The current number of CPs is 200 and there are about 80 applications in application store. Those numbers will increase as time goes. It recently announced the SAMSUNG APPS CONTEST 2010, calling developers to use their SDK and create new applications for TV.
Any developer who wants to create applications can
- download the SDK from http://www.pavv.co.kr/contest/,
- make their own application
- test it using an desktop emulator.
Developers can make applications using Web technologies (HTML and JavaScript) and ADOBE FLASH Technology.
Hope this starts a new era of TV Apps using Flash Lite for Digital Home.
TiVo DVR using Flash Lite for Digital Home
Adobe Flash Lite for Digital Home is in news now-a-days. Recently Intel's Sodaville announced that they are going to use Flash. Now its TiVo, which announced its new Set-top box which uses Adobe Flash Platform.
This device has several new menus with a very rich UI:
- TiVo Central
- TiVo Search
- Tivo Browser (Tivo Content Browsing, not a html browser)
- My Shows etc
Apart from this, the Remote is pretty exciting with QWERTY Keyboard and very much like the way needed to navigate different Applications.
Way to go Flash Lite for Digital Home...