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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 28. nov. 2011 22:55, skrev Thomas Mashos:
> Please walk me through a typical day in the live of this TV for a 
> family of 4. 

Alright.

6AM. Parents get out of bed, do their morning stuff, makes coffee and 
switches on their TV to watch the morning news. Only the normal remote 
control is needed for this, but anyone can also use their phones without 
any logins. Using just bluetooth. Family calendar displays notifications 
for birthdays and other important things that happens today.

13:00. The youngest child comes home from school, finishes homework and 
goes into the living room to watch some TV, chat with friends and play. 
She logs onto the TV, which provides child-friendly content, her IM 
roster, and other personal stuff. As her friends finishes their homework 
and go online, she gets notifications. She chat's a little bit while 
watching cartoons. When she's typing, her text is displayed at the top 
center of the screen, so that it doesn't get in the way of subtitles. 
You can't dub Inspector Gadget. That would be herecy. The chat backlog 
is displayed as an overlay along the right side of the screen, from the 
bottom and up to a certain height. The oldest backlog entries fade into 
the cartoon. After a certain amount of time, the entire chat begins to 
fade and the cartoon becomes entirely visible until she or her friend 
says something. When the cartoon finishes, she decides to go out to 
climb the trees and hunt for butterflies.

15:00. The teenager comes home. He shoots his shoes at the wall, throws 
his jacket on the floor, and throws himself into the living room couch 
to play Doom 3 on the big screen for a while, using the netbook as 
keyboard and mouse. The game runs full screen on the 50" display, but 
very important things appear as notifications.

17:00. Parents come home and chases the teenager into his room to do his 
homework. Father logs onto the TV, watches some news and catches up with 
emails. Mother goes into the kitchen to prepare dinner. Logs onto her 
20" wall-mounted, touch screen, Ubuntu kitchen TV. In the living room, a 
notification appears on the big screen. The teenager needs a little help 
with the math. Father presses 5 on the remote control to accept the 
screen-share with audio and webcam in the corner.  Turns out math isn't 
fathers strong suit, so he forwards the conference to mother. She gets a 
notification on her kitchen screen and explains it to the both of them, 
whereupon the teenager ends the conference and goes back to his 
homework. The family phone rings, and a notification appears on 
everyone's screens. Mother thinks it's her friend, so she picks up by 
pressing the indicator on her kitchen screen. But it turns out to be a 
telemarketer, and she doesn't have time for that, so she forwards it to 
the living room. Father politely tells the telemarketer to go somewhere 
hot, and wishes him a good trip.

1900: Mother takes her laptop into the living room to finish her work. 
She connects to the TV and switches over to desktop view. She then opens 
her spreadsheets on the big screen and her email on the laptop screen. 
She moves the laptop mouse pointer onto the big screen when she wants to 
work on that, and back to the laptop screen to work on that. It feels 
exactly the same as it does with her docking station in the office, 
except the screen is much bigger... and she has a couch to lean back into.

20:00 - onwards: The TV is used to play music, watch TV with set-top 
functionality, streaming from and recording to their Ubuntu Home Server. 
Casual surfing, a few phone calls, etc.

Christmas eve:

Relatives who live far apart switches on the webcam on their Ubuntu TVs 
and streams their christmas parties to each other. It's almost like 
they're together in the same room. Youngest child has gotten exactly the 
doll she wanted, and she up to the TV to show her grandparents what she 
has. She's so proud.

Just as we will be when this becomes reality. :)

Jo-Erlend Schinstad