Connected Home, Connected Life
(Pages 8-43)
With the proliferation of connected digital devices, the dream of enjoying
one's digital content "anytime and anywhere" is becoming a reality.
Ubiquitous device connectivity, and advances in device performance, are
changing the landscape for content developers both inside the digital
home and outside in our daily activities.
The articles in this section include:
Instant Gratification in a World of Infinite Content: The Future In-home TV Experience?
By Chris Porthouse, Director of Business Development,
ARM and Matthew Newman Senior Product Manager,
Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group
The home video experience is changing rapidly. The shift from
limited, scheduled content broadcast to your TV or cable set-top box (STB) will change
to a world of almost infinite content available on demand, from your cable operator or
from the internet, personalized for your viewing tastes and targeted at multiple devices
around the home.
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Overcoming Ecosystem Challenges for Digital Home Content
By Tim Closs, CTO, Ideaworks Labs
Ubiquitous device connectivity, and advances in device performance, are changing the landscape for
content developers in the digital home. However, there are still some serious challenges to address.
Ideaworks Labs has been working with ARM for many years to address these challenges through
its Airplay Software Development Kit (SDK). This article will address how the Airplay SDK can help
to remove limitations experienced by content developers as they balance between the number of
platforms supported with the resources available.
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Animating the Connected Home and Life
ARM and Opera Software share a similar role in
bringing the connected home concept to life. As
technology providers, both companies develop
complex behind-the-scenes solutions for running
and connecting a whole host of devices, both outside and within
the home, with the ultimate aim of creating seamless interoperability
and connectivity for end users.
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ARM and Qt Development Frameworks “Staying Tuned”
By Dilip Kenchammana, Product Line Manager, Nokia Qt Development Frameworks
Qt is a cross platform C++ application framework
that today is available on several embedded and
mobile platforms as well as devices, which use
Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating environments.
The inherent cross platform nature of the Qt
technology proposition is playing a crucial role now, as home
and mobile electronic devices constantly spawn new form factors.
While the physical ‘shape of the box’ may be changing, people
demand a consistent user experience that they know and recognize
as they spend more time using increasingly sophisticated pieces of
equipment.
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Internet Enabled Devices for Your Home
By Murali Babu Muthukrishnan, Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Product Conceptualization and Design
The Internet is now available to everyone,
enabling a variety of use cases from news
gathering and content sharing to instant
messaging. Such activities are primarily enabled
by PCs and smartphones while at home the
connected TV is starting to take on this role.
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Yahoo! TV Widgets--Experience Gained
By Jim Wallace, Ashley Stevens, Frank Kruszenski, ARM
The Yahoo! TV Widget Engine is one the most demanding
software stacks, embedded in many modern DTVs. With an
open environment and open Software Development Kit
(SDK), the Widgets themselves are increasing in number and
complexity. The Yahoo! TV Widget Engine allows developers
to create visually beautiful user experiences, taking full
advantage of the hardware and software on the latest DTV
systems. The DTV system needs to meet certain minimum
specifications to ensure the most compelling user experience.
These specifications include CPU performance, memory
size/bandwidth and GPU standards compliance.
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A Set-top Box Enabled by Google’s Android OS
By Mrinmoy Purkayastha, Tata Elxsi
Google’s Android Operating System presents a compelling value proposition to the development
of devices that are at the center of the modern digital home. Tata Elxsi engineers are focused on
developing Android-based products that enable consumers to seamlessly share content and make
true convergence a reality.
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Audio for Next-Generation Broadcast Services: The Dolby MS10 Multistream Decoder Solution
Over the last 18 months, various European industry groups such as DVB,
EBU, EICTA, and a number of national HDTV specification forums have
considered the selection of audio coding systems for next-generation
broadcast applications, including HDTV broadcasts, using MPEG-4 video. In general, these
considerations have highlighted two standardized audio coding systems as particularly suited
to next-generation transmissions: Dolby Digital Plus (also known as E-AC-3) and Dolby
Pulse (Dolby’s implementation of aacPlus or HE AAC). The EBU Project Group D/MAE, for
example, concluded that the two coding formats are the best candidates for broadcasting
HDTV audio services via satellite, cable, terrestrial, and IPTV networks.
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The Digital Living Connect Alliance (DLNA) and NetFront Living Connect
By ACCESS Co., LTD, Product Marketing Division Application Section
With the proliferation of connected digital devices, the dream of enjoying one’s digital content
“anytime and anywhere” is becoming a reality thanks to the efforts of the Digital Living Connect
Alliance (DLNA) which has created an interoperability standard to enable connectivity among different
consumer electronics devices. ACCESS CO., LTD., a Japanese software vendor who is a DLNA
promoter member and who is specializing in providing advanced software solutions for mobile and
beyond-PC markets, has developed a comprehensive software solution based on DLNA’s Network
Device Interoperability Guidelines.
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