A TV site is a
website designed for viewing on a
television set.
Unlike mobile and PC access, the use of internet sites through the TV has been small, mostly due to the poor user experience of many "web on TV" deployments, and the "walled garden" or
closed platform business models adopted by many TV network operators.
With the advent of
IPTV and
Broadband enabled TV Devices web site owners have realized, that like Mobile, TV needs to be considered as a different media, and that Mobile, TV and PC based internet access all present different
user interface design challenges in order to make the services usable and acceptable to consumers on the device they are using.
TV Sites can be developed and deployed using a number of different technologies including
Adobe Flash,
WTVML,
Java and
HTML, although the same design principles apply whatever the development technology.
Typically TV Sites are differentiated from other web sites by having a "wtv." rather than a "www."
subdomain
In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is a part of another (main) domain. For example, if a domain offered an online store as part of their website example.com, it might use the subdomain shop.example.com .
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Interfaces
The following styles of interface are often considered:
* The "one foot" user experience - used to describe
mobile apps, which are typically "personal" and used at a short distance from the device
* The "three foot" user experience - used to describe PC applications, which are typically used "personal" and accessed via a PC, with mouse, windows and a high resolution screen
* The "
10-foot user interface
In computing, 10-foot user interface ("10-foot UI"), also known as a 3-meter user interface (especially for international marketing), is a graphical user interface designed for televisions. Compared to desktop computer and smartphone user int ...
" - used to describe TV applications, which are typically used in a "shared" environment, via a TV, with only a TV
remote control as the input mechanism
These interfaces are characterized as follows:
* Mobile: narrow screen 1D scrolling, simplified layout, limited graphics and media types, limited transactional capability, limited keyboard, no pointer (see
Post-WIMP)
* PC: wide screen, scrollable interfaces, complex layouts, complex media types, fully transactional, keyboard, pointer
* TV: wide screen, explicit layout, embedded scrolling, limited media types, video support, fully transactional, limited keyboard, no pointer
References
*Ashley Highfield (Director of New Media Technology at the BBC) mentions these types of interface
herein his CES speech.
*Microsoft's "Online Spotlight" for Media Center PC was an early example of the ability to deploy TV Sites to Broadband TV devices, as reviewe
here*Companies in the UK advertise the building of TV Sites, examples
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Interactive television
Digital television
Streaming television