Numericable has extended the deployment of its Nexx UI design to its operations in Belgium and Luxembourg. Zappware’s Nexx UI design was initially deployed by Numericable in France as part of Numer…
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The Hulu Plus app for Android has a new update, and the most noticeable change is that its player UI to closer match the one on its website and in iOS.
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Vizio\’s Co-Star hub is still one of the cheapest points of entry into the Google TV world, so it\’s comforting to see the set-top box getting an update –
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“”I have a fundamental belief that the 10-feet UI as concept sucks and is broken,” says Jeremy Toeman, Dijit CEO and creator of NextGuide, a modern TV guide app for iPad. “It doesn’t matter what kind of lipstick you put on a pig.”
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“We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts.
The technology isn’t an issue. There’s enough bandwidth on cable (or pretend-fiber) networks, plenty of storage on servers, and all the required computing power in current or future TV boxes, from Apple and its competitors.”
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“The idea that consumers want to access more web and interactive content through a single UI is being proved on the TiVo platform at Virgin Media. Now the company is offering customers a powerful companion app for the Apple iPad, called Virgin Media TV Anywhere, that acts as a rich extension to this television UI and includes streamed video.”
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“An interesting demo application video posted by Derek Wischusen showcasing Feathers, the new Starling based UI framework, running on multiple devices.”
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Robin Good: Google has just released the new YouTube app for iOS. The app is free and it is available worldwide in the app store.
Key features include:
✓ Enjoy YouTube’s vast video catalog, including official music videos
✓ Find videos and channels more easily with voice search and query autocomplete
✓ Subscribe to channels and instantly access your subscriptions with the channel guide UI
✓ Read comments, browse related videos, enable subtitles and more – all while watching
✓ Easy video sharing to Google+, E-mail, Facebook and Twitter
Forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/youtube/mobile-and-devices ;
Download it now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youtube/id544007664 ;
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“Today we’re getting a sense of what the Netflix experience might look like on Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii U console thanks to some prototype images uncovered by Engadget. If you were assuming the interface would simply mimic the standard Netflix layout, think again. Based on these shots, it appears the company will be using the Wii U Gamepad to minimize clutter on your TV by offering queue management and playback options from the controller itself. The primary UI bears some resemblance to the current Xbox 360 iteration of Netflix, displaying similar 3D-like rows of movie and TV show artwork on the home screen.”
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“I saw a story recently on the Fast Company Co.Design blog about this great UI idea by Ishac Bertran for dragging files from your phone to your computer (see video below). Something about the intuitive simplicity of this idea made me think of Jobs’ comment about cracking the UI for controlling a TV.”
via @gip89
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