Re: UKNM: internet tv?

[Tomski]

At 11:39 15/08/2000 +0100, you wrote:

>OnNet which is ONDigital's soon to launch Internet TV uses a set-top box to

>read and modify the pages instantly which was developed  by netgem- its

>very smart!


i'm sure it's very smart , but I'll bet the real-life results will be

patchy to say the least...

WebTV are market leaders in reformat-www-pages-for-TV-on-the-fly proxies,

but even after 4 years of development they still face a fundamental problem

in that their end users blame *WebTV* when someone's pages don't display

well and / or functionality fails.


> >a little question - just come across an internet tv that enables access

to

> >internet on a tv. it was my understanding that in order to publish a site

> >on tv the site  needs to be redesigned (or at least reconfigured) - how

do

> >these internet television's work?


To get maximum value out of a TV-browsing experience, there is no choice

but to redesign the whole user interface. The requirements of TV are vastly

different from that of a PC, and a page-monging proxy will only take off

the roughest of edges.


That's one reason why content management is so key these days - if you're

not storing and managing your content assets in a truly platform-neutral

manner (format/functionality/editorial all independent) then you'll hit

real problems when you need to scale across WAP/OpenTV/Liberate./MSTV as

well as the web.


- i'll get off my high horse now...




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