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[Callum Saunders <dancemeep@xxxxxxxxx>]

*Ok i have completely messed up trying to manage mailing lists in Gmail.
Ive sent this to the wrong place twice, third time's the charm:*

I like the idea of if you're watching something on TV you can, providing
they are using the same account, continue watching what you were watching
on you're tablet, phone or laptop. That would be really handy if you had to
go out or do something.

Joshua Topolsky wrote an editorial on Engadget about similiar behaviour, he
called it the 'continous client', it is really worth a read and is
incredibly relevant -
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/a-modest-proposal-the-continuous-client/
.

The Trillian IM app implemented this and it was great, you could be having
a conversation on a mac and then when you pick up your mobile, further
messages are delivered there instead and you can continue your convo
seemlessly on the go.

This kind of behaviour between TV's, Phones, Tablets, Laptops & Cars would
be amazing, and a fantastic selling point.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Mika Meskanen
<mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Interesting…
>
> I think enabling the phone as smart remote to TV is a baseline
> requirement. That's something to start thinking about already today.
>
> The collaborative, multi-device, shared screen scenario is more ambitious,
> but if we come up with a number of compelling scenarios (Novacut example is
> a good start) we can to build understanding around the subject.
>
> There are some interesting multi-screen entertainment scenarios as well.
> E.g. Live football match on TV, phone as remote, and tablet as secondary
> channel to display scores / live tables. There are many more, I'm sure.
>
>
> Mika
>
>
>
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 08:37, Karloman De Waarachtige wrote:
>
> > I take it we're looking towards an app on ubuntu-phone/tablet to control
> ubuntu-tv. This can be achieved through SSH or even VNC. Anyone following
> me on this one?
> >
> > In the hardware departement; http://www.boxee.tv has one of the best
> remotes I've seen so far. One side has a D-Pad and one button; the other
> side has a hardware keyboard (much preferred over a software one). Might be
> interesting for canonical if they do decide to choose hardware over
> software.
> >
> > Regs,
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Giordano <
> christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In the context of simply controlling the TV, and inspiring project might
> be Google Anymote: http://code.google.com/p/anymote-protocol/
> >
> > The possibility of collaborate on a software with more users in realtime
> and having the TV showing a different view of the process sounded
> complicated but at the end it is what already happens with many
> collaborative tools like Google Docs. So it will be a natural scenario when
> our applications will be more collaborative.
> >
> >
> > Cheers, chr
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:32 AM, david jordan <dmj726@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > With Ubuntu now being targeted toward TVs as well as smartphones and
> tablets, one thing that strikes me is that traditionally TVs have
> traditionally struggled to accept inputs that don't fit into either preset
> functions on the remote/controller or the equivalent of arrow keys +
> Select.  (Think of all the interfaces on set top boxes that require the
> user to enter text via an onscreen keyboard that can only be navigated via
> arrow keys.)
> > While it's probably good to have basic functions accessible via this
> standard remote  system, I think we can leverage Ubuntu on smartphones and
> tablets to provide a much richer input system.  By allowing smartphones and
> tablets to control the television, we could open up Ubuntu TVs for a wide
> range of collaborative activities.
> > So you would have each of your group's tablets connect to the TV, start
> up the application you want to work with, and begin working together.  This
> could work differently depending on the use case.  Either everyone could be
> working/playing together on the big screen, or individuals could work with
> a network enabled application on their own tablet and then share their
> progress directly on the TV with the others as they each made their own
> adjustments.
> > In the case of a video editing project, say Novacut, each user would be
> cutting a given scene, doing color correction, etc on their own Ubuntu
> tablet, with the TV as a shared screen for showing progress, getting
> feedback from the rest of the group, and keeping tabs on the state of the
> edit as a whole.
> > I'm sure there are many other applications that could benefit from
> having a shared screen interfaced with many tiny ones, especially ones
> where people are trying to create and remix as a group as well as
> facilitating social games.
> > David Jordan
> >
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