10
Mar/10
1

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

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.

2
Mar/10
0

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.

TiVo_Premiere

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...

27
Feb/10
0

Adobe Flash Player 10 be available on Intel Sodaville

intel-logoDuring this week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel has unveiled "Sodaville" a new 45nm system-on-a-chip based on the comapny’s Atom processor that’s designed specifically to bring interactive, Internet-based services and content to televisions, set-top boxes, and peripherals like DVD players and DVRs. The chipset supports both Internet and broadcast applications, and has enough processing horsepower to handle both video and audio processing and 3D graphics in real time.

The CE4100 will be available at speeds of up to 1.2 GHz, and will feature hardware-based decoding capabilities that can handle two 1080p video streams simultaneously, along with high-definition audio and 3D graphics. The system supports hardware-based decoding for MEG4, and integrated NAND flash controller, support for DDR2 and DDR3 memory, support for SATA-300 and USB 2.0, and 512K of L2 cache. The chip will support Flash Player 10, along with standards like OpenFGL ES 2.0 for developing media-intensive 3D applications; Adobe expects Flash 10 to be available for Sodaville devices in mid-2010.

26
Nov/09
0

Get to know FlashLite for Digital Home (FLDH)

As you all know, FlashLite for Digital Home refers to Flash on IPTV's and SetTopBox.

Dale Rankine talks more about what exactly FlashLite for Digital Home is, its Limitations, Best Practices, Capabilities etc. in this video.


This video will help us in understanding what FlashLite for Digital Home is!!!!

Check it out....

25
Sep/09
0

Using CacheAsBitmap effectively for FlashLite for Digital Home

As you might be hearing now a days about FlashLite on Digital Home, its like running Flash content on Set-top boxes. My previous post has a demo of Intel, which was given at its IDF.

In this post, we are going to talk about using cacheAsBitmap feature effectively while creating content for Set-top boxes.

FlashLite for Digital Home basically has a capability of Hardware Rendering, wherein the hardware has can render the Bitmaps avoiding the software(FlashLite) to take this burden. This results in increase in performance while rendering on set-top box.

23
Sep/09
0

Intel-based Set-top box running Flash, HD Video

Intel has demoed its Set-top box with CE 3100 Media Processor, which combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing core all on one chip at IDF. That sep-top box runs Flash UI as it has FlashLite for Digital Home running on top of Linux.

This is the product i am working on :)

Good to see demos of the product for which i am working on...

Check out more details here