Google strikes Freesat deal to launch YouTube on TV.
 

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:07:34 +0000, Dave Farrance
wrote:


An annoying feature on Youtube is that on almost every other application on
my Samsung smart TV and Raspberry Pi, I can use a keyboard and mouse, which
makes life so much easier, however the Youtube app insists that you can only
use the rather tedious scroll and select using the remote control when
searching, which is a right PITA, does anyone here know why this is?

Do you mean a Youtube app built into your TV rather than an app on the Pi?

The "Youtube app" installed on my media centre PC works just fine with
a standard cordless mouse on my coffee table.

It's called Firefox.

Rod.

Google strikes Freesat deal to launch YouTube on TV.
 

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:01:12 +0000, Ian wrote:

In message , Peter Duncanson
writes
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:48:55 -0600, "Steve Thackery"
wrote:

Roderick Stewart wrote:

I
don't see the Freeview red button as anything other than a gimmicky
and needlessly complicated way of watching a different channel.

Yes - completely agree with that. It's an odd definition of
"interactive" to my mind.

Someone seems to have come up with the description "interactive" years
ago, and it has stuck. The red button text service is also described as
interactive. That is perhaps slightly more understandable in that the
viewer is "interacting" with the TV by frequent button-pressing.


Don't forget about the occasional programme where you can join in by
using the red button service.

It's been used mainly on quiz shows (Play Along), but I've noticed that
most of the time it only works for Sky viewers, even on the Beeb.

That needs some means of communication back from the box to the
programme-maker. With a Sky box that would be via the phone line
connected to the box.

I don't know whether there are yet arrangements for that sort of reverse
communication on a Freeview or Freesat box with a broadband connection.


--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Google strikes Freesat deal to launch YouTube on TV.
 

In message , Peter Duncanson
writes
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:01:12 +0000, Ian wrote:

In message , Peter Duncanson
writes
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:48:55 -0600, "Steve Thackery"
wrote:

Roderick Stewart wrote:

I
don't see the Freeview red button as anything other than a gimmicky
and needlessly complicated way of watching a different channel.

Yes - completely agree with that. It's an odd definition of
"interactive" to my mind.

Someone seems to have come up with the description "interactive" years
ago, and it has stuck. The red button text service is also described as
interactive. That is perhaps slightly more understandable in that the
viewer is "interacting" with the TV by frequent button-pressing.


Don't forget about the occasional programme where you can join in by
using the red button service.

It's been used mainly on quiz shows (Play Along), but I've noticed that
most of the time it only works for Sky viewers, even on the Beeb.

That needs some means of communication back from the box to the
programme-maker. With a Sky box that would be via the phone line
connected to the box.

I don't know whether there are yet arrangements for that sort of reverse
communication on a Freeview or Freesat box with a broadband connection.


I've used it before, on a box without a net connection.

The last time was an Antiques Roadshow, where we had to predict the
value of objects.

It also used to be included in "Millionaire", and "Test the Nation".
--
Ian