At the Samsung press conference earlier today at CES 2009, Yahoo’s involvement with Samsung’s new HDTV line was revealed to be an integrated system of Widgets, based on a new Konfabulator engine. They went through it very briefly, but Flickr, news, finance, and other Yahoo services are fully available and integrated into an on-screen display, for use during usual TV watching. They call it Medi@ 2.0, a wholly buzz-oriented name, but you’ll probably just call it “Yahoo TV” or “The Stocks.”
Here’s a video of the interface in action — dramatized, it looks like, but a good indicator of what it should look like on your Samsung, should you choose to accept one. (Update: I talked to Samsung, they say it’s pretty much good to go. It’s still only working on prototype TVs right now, however.)
Sweet, a useless closed platform that makes the press. Haven’t they made a ruckus about this junk at each CES for the last 3-4 years?
Can’t wait until Google shows them how it’s done…yet again.
The description says “open and connected from the start.” Probably an exaggeration.
Vaporware should NOT be allowed at CES.
Oh, don’t, you’ll spoil all the fun!
It is not vapor ware…it is alive and already running widgets from many companies. Remember Konfabulator?
Lem, they indicated ->> “open and connected from the start.”
Let see how it’s going. For me it is interesting to see this
Yea, I know but really doubt it. Heck, I can’t even get the old Yahoo homepage to show up. Instead, I’m stuck with some ugly new thing. Why can’t I go back? Doesn’t seem very “open”.
My and Yahoo’s definitions probably vary a bit!
Dude I totally know what you’re talking about! I hate the new page, my yahoo page kept coming up in the new way, but now its back to the good old standard!!
:) i <3 yahoo, gotta love that yahooooooooooooooo!
http://i.gizmodo.com/5125554/vizio-connected-hdtvs-built+in-80211n-for-amazon-and-netflix-vod?skyline=true&s=i
http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/
Oh Yahoo is making fool?
Yay! More ADD in America! Why hadn’t I thought of that? Adding widgets and, well, why not scrollers, to the TV screen!
What’s with the foreplay? I dont want wires, nor wireless, I want implants
Wow intresting
you’ll probably just call it “Yahoo TV” or “The Stocks.”,matters is not innovation, but useful innovation
samsung,i do not think it is so good.
I have the 52″ 750 which has like 4 internet functions which are barely used and are very limited. It would be nice to have some cool functionality to take advantage of the internet. I would be pissed if they dont give me a way to upgrade my TV’s software somehow though which Im sure will be the case.
yet another BFD
yet another useless hyped thing nobody will use
YAUHNWU
Why are they using the Yahoo WIdget platform? Didn’t anybody at Samsung do a technical evaluation? The Yahoo Widget platform is a technological joke. It’s very memory intensive and it leaks memory like a sieve. We investigated writing some widgets years ago and we found that our memory usage climbed and climbed as the user interacted with our widgets. This is supposed to be a garbage-collected JavaScript environment where memory management is taken care of for you. It should be impossible to leak. But Yahoo Widgets platform does. It seemed to be related to using timers or animation within a widget. And for grins, I fired up my old widgets with the latest download of Yahoo Widgets, wondering if they fixed anything in these past years, and they still leak!
What this is going to mean is that if you keep your TV on for an extended period of time, it’ll most likely get really slow and eventually crash as all the memory gets eaten up.
This has epic fail written all over it.
Good Yahoo! and Samsung
You people at the SAMSUNG are doing a wonderful job, meeting all the expectations and winning all the challenges. BRAVO 2 all of you.