RE: UKNM: internet tv?

[Robin Edwards]

The biggest problem is going to be displaying the content on the low res,

low quality CRT tube that is in most tellies. Horizontal lines flicker like

a bugger because the display is interlaced, and pure white is a no-no (which

most web sites seem to use as a background colour), and red bleeds all over

anything it touches, and text needs to be considerably larger in point size,

and certain colour combinations cause visual artefacts, and some regular

repeating patterns will coincide with the interlacing and low resolution to

give lovely moiré effects, and you are unlikely to want to deal with

multiple windows on one screen, and and and...


Perhaps a better option is to buy a PC with a 25 inch SVGA monitor and stick

a TV tuner card in it :o)


Robin


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> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of

>

johnmymail [dot] tm

> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:03 PM

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: internet tv?

>

>

> > 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?

>

> Set top boxes come in two flavours:

>

> MPEG based - where the technology is based on an MPEG video layer with a

> graphics layer overlaid

>

> and

>

> Web browser based - where it's just like a regular web browser except that

> the

> ones I've seen have old technology (HTML, JavaScript like version 3

> browsers, an

> early version of Java, and no plugins like Flash)



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