Yahoo TV Widgets Bring the Web to 2009 Samsung HDTVs
Samsung also announced an interface that brings web content right into the set for it's 2009 HDTVs. What's especially interesting about Samsung is that they are not using a proprietary system. Instead, they are using Yahoo's TV Widgets platform. Yahoo's system has an open API, which means pretty much any developer can create new widgets to bring make different types of content available. During the demo we got from Samsung at CES, we saw the YouTube videos, finance data, weather, and news widgets we've seen on other systems, but we also saw multiple movie rental and video on demand providers, and hookups to Flickr and Twitter. The widget that excited me most was something called Rallypoint, that lets you track fantasy league scores, standings, and player stats for all the players on your fantasy team in real time while you watch games on TV. Here's the complete demo we got.
Harry on June 23, 2009 at 08:18 AM
The openness is bogus. Applied for a developer account twice. No response. The Youtube-widget has disappeared upon the first remote update of the TV's yahoo software.
Its a closed and useless feature at this stage.
Kunmi Banki on July 07, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Samsung directors plus their marketing arm are bastards ... the tv has no yooutube widget . This is blatant thiefs.
coach outlet store on June 30, 2011 at 12:33 AM
now if you go to www.ucentric.com it redirects to a motorola.com page about a cable box that does just what the directv system was supposed to do. what happened there