Lost Remote Does Video Feature On Our Live Guide App
8.28.2012—We’ve been getting some video-love lately, and rightfully so! This time, Boxfish has made its way onto Los Remote’s video news show, The Pulse, which covers all things digital and innovative in the TV space. I’d say we fit the criteria.
6.28.2012—Sometimes, you just need to have fun with work.
The Traditional Remote Shall Rise Again
6.18.2012—VideoNet put out an article explaining why the tablet will not replace the traditional remote control. The features that manufacturers like Ruwido are bringing to the regular remote control, which will make it not so regular (features like voice-recognition and fingerprint scanner to match TV user profiles).
Another point brought up in the article is the importance the traditional remote plays in network branding.
While there are valid points brought up in the article, the traditional remote has more of an uphill battle against the tablet than this story lets on. While the remote is centrally reliant on the TV and what it can offer, a tablet straddles the crossroads of nearly every media outlet. The internet, ebooks, TV, music, gaming, etc. are all at your fingertips, while the traditional remote is at the mercy of how far along the TV to which it’s tethered has advanced.
Likewise, the tablet can work with televisions of different makes and models, the traditional control is stuck with its brand.
Still, remote controls seem to be moving along with the times and this article highlights what they could mean for the future of TV.
The 2nd Screen and the Social Space, Becoming More Integral to TV
6.13.2012—There are some intriguing things going on with the 2nd screen and social TV. Two Lost Remote articles point to how ConnecTV, a social TV app, and Reddit may become integral to connecting viewers with TV content.
While broadcasters are looking to Facebook and Twitter to expand their viewership and online presence, Reddit’s community boards are a more distilled example of how a show/channel is being received by the viewership and what kind of impact it is making online. I think we are starting to see the space for social connectivity regarding TV fanfare spilling over to other platforms. Or maybe it was already there, and the industry is only now taking notice.
That is probably why ConnecTV is emphasizing on being able to be interactive with as many TV channels and affiliates as possible. One major point they bring up in being successful with engaging users via the 2nd screen is, according to the article:
“Local partners don’t want the same thing to happen on the second screen that’s increasingly happening on the first. And there’s a strong argument that viewers don’t want to fumble around with a half-dozen second-screen apps, but engage with one that works across the full palette of TV. ‘We operate the way you watch TV,’ said ConnecTV’s Aaron in an interview with Lost Remote in February. ‘No matter what channel you tune to, you’re going to have an experience.’ “
It’s pretty interesting to see how others are seeing the value in streamlining how users/viewers connect to the TV content they care about.
How Consoles are Merging With Devices and Why We Give a Damn
6.4.2012—Every tech journo and gaming news outlet is utterly consumed with today’s E3 video-game conference in Los Angeles. While there are some exciting things in the pipeline (our resident degenerate is especially geeing out over Grand Theft Auto 5), what has captured our attention here at Boxfish is how companies are moving their respective consoles beyond a gaming platform to a household media center.
Microsoft made the biggest splash today, attempting to “own the living-room” with what Xbox will soon have to offer to users. Introducing its “SmartGlass” technology, tablets and smart-phones will soon be incorporated into all things Xbox, from gaming to program viewing. Likewise, Microsoft is moving to cram as many entertainment/media options into the Xbox as possible. The company’s head of marketing/strategy reportedly summed it up at E3 as he took the stage, “We love entertainment, not just games and movies, but music, television and sports.”
While some are billing Microsoft’s Xbox announcements as raising the bar for media/console integration, Nintendo jumped ahead of their E3 showing tomorrow and hit social media with news of their new Wii U touch-screen gamepad. Mimicking the look of a more traditional game controller than the Wii nun-chuck, the Wii U gamepad will be able to access a web browser and double as a remote control for the TV itself. If this is a sign of things to come, we’re anticipating what Sony will do with the PS3, as well as what Apple and Google have planned for their TV platforms.
With Boxfish’s app on the horizon, the incorporation of the second screen into game consoles will fuse the discovery layer of television with the next generation of consoles and media devices. Being able to search every word spoken on TV in real time, watch the channel that has the content you searched for, play a console game and surf the web all at the tip of your fingers greatly expands the possibilities of what everyone from Boxfish to Nintendo can provide the public.
As an office full of nerds (albeit cool nerds), we are definitely looking forward to adding our bricks to building the future of media.
How Boxfish plans to revolutionize real-time TV search
5.3.2012—Cyrus Farivar wrote a great article for Ars Technica about how Boxfish is revolutionizing searching for TV content. The story was also picked up by Hacker News and put on the front page. We’re making a splash like crazy! Excited to see where this leads.
Condie Breaks Up the Boys Club: Condoleezza Rice Low on Mentions, High in User Poll For VP.
4.23.2012—The Veepstakes begins on the republican ticket as pundits speculate on who GOP election front-runner Mitt Romney will choose to run with him as Vice President. A CNN poll last week put former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the most favorable VP choice, and the only woman in the bunch. Romney’s staunches rival throughout the race, Rick Santorum, came in second. Boxfish compares the TV mentions of the VP hopefuls to their poll figures.
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