Yahoo Japan has clearly taken the wholewidget concept to heart in introducing a new service that helps users get themost out of digital TV broadcasts [Japanese].
The ‘Yahoo! 1seg Widget’ isaimed at computer users who have digital TV tuners in their machines that arecapable of picking up the special mobile-tailored digital broadcasts knownthere as 1-seg.
Effortless search
Firmware on compatibletuners – several are already available – grabs the limited program data that’sbroadcast with the mobile stream and sends it to Yahoo’s search engineautomatically.
From there, it’s a simplematter of feeding back relevant results about the TV show to the widget, which displaysinformation about the cast, the subject of the show and plenty more that can’tbe squeezed into the data channel on the original broadcast.
Networking too
On top of that, YahooMessenger can be fired up to join a special chatroom populated only by otherpeople watching the same TV show.
Lookingahead, Yahoo is likely to expand the functionality to regular digitalbroadcasts on PCs and, possibly on internet-connected TV sets too.
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The ‘Yahoo! 1seg Widget’ isaimed at computer users who have digital TV tuners in their machines that arecapable of picking up the special mobile-tailored digital broadcasts knownthere as 1-seg.
Effortless search
Firmware on compatibletuners – several are already available – grabs the limited program data that’sbroadcast with the mobile stream and sends it to Yahoo’s search engineautomatically.
From there, it’s a simplematter of feeding back relevant results about the TV show to the widget, which displaysinformation about the cast, the subject of the show and plenty more that can’tbe squeezed into the data channel on the original broadcast.
Networking too
On top of that, YahooMessenger can be fired up to join a special chatroom populated only by otherpeople watching the same TV show.
Lookingahead, Yahoo is likely to expand the functionality to regular digitalbroadcasts on PCs and, possibly on internet-connected TV sets too.
More...