Ubuntu TV: What to expect

tgoossens · 2012-01-11 13:50:23

Ubuntu Tv: Tv For human beings

Canonical recently announced their own product for the 'smart tv' market

http://www.ubuntu.com/tv

What are your thoughts?

*Will it become a success?
*Do people need this? (Is there even a market?)
*Do you want it?
*Do you think its well made?
* versus google tv?

*....anything you think right now!

Last edited by tgoossens (2012-01-11 13:54:15)

karol · 2012-01-11 14:08:38

I don't need another device, I rarely watch movies / video streams of any kind.

broken pipe · 2012-01-11 15:21:57

hmm ... is it embedded in the tv? probably not!?
i think it won't have any big succes, because my loewe tv and several other televisions i know, which has I/O multimedia support, already can do those things. ubuntu is just trying to catch up.
i can aesily watch videos on youtube, plug in any flash drive etc. the dlna/upnp is widely supported by network tvs and theres no problem to stream any movie over the network using mediatomb.

but i like ubuntu's user interface it seems to be very user friendly and easy to control. i would love to see a good dvbs/dvbt implementation. xbmc doesn't support it and i always failed to activate it in mythtv.

tomk · 2012-01-11 15:25:57

tgoossens wrote:

What are your thoughts?

yawn

eldragon · 2012-01-11 15:47:58

a heavily patched version of mythtv.

tgoossens · 2012-01-11 16:31:31

I'm currently looking into XBMC. And i think it's cool. Practical for getting videos, photos and music on your telly. And there it stops. I wonder what Ubuntu TV has different. (A company behind it, doing marketing ?)

anonymous_user · 2012-01-12 03:31:58

If I understand correctly, Ubuntu TV would just be a UI for Internet TVs? Personally I don't think really see what advantages it holds over Google TV's interface.

.:B:. · 2012-01-12 07:25:11

I think Canonical should spend its money on other things. But hey... If they see this becoming profitable, who am I?

austin.rbn · 2012-01-12 07:45:56

Shuttleworth is really grasping for a way to make Canonical profitable, isn't he? Sadly, I'm not sure what they think they have to offer people outside of the Ubuntu fold, with this.

SS4 · 2012-01-12 12:00:36

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcZqcPOlNM

Cosmin · 2012-01-12 15:48:46

Since Mark Shuttleworth came from the trip to space he started calling us "human beings", which begs the question, who (or rather "what") came back from the space trip? Anyone checked his chest?

blackout23 · 2012-01-13 22:14:40

I'm waiting for a multimedia suite that integrates live TV and your private media collection + Internet OnDemand/Streaming.
With Boxee etc. it's either watching regular TV or switching to your HTPC for watching Internet TV and movies from Mass Storage.

karol · 2012-01-14 06:16:30

This actually makes sense: instead of seeing naked people on your Ubuntu wallpaper, you can see them (or some other human beings) prancing around in a movie. That's progress!

@blackout23
One can jokingly say that Google is / was [1] such a "multimedia suite": all you had to do is search the web or search your mass storage :-)

[1] Google Desktop is dead http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/

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