Interactive TV Applications

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A complete interactive TV application to maximize the user experience

Hillcrest Labs' software solution uses standard web technologies to deliver Internet media, interactive gaming and personal media collections to the television in a unique way. The combination of graphical navigation, pointing, and motion control creates a spectacular, immersive, connected TV experience.

Hillcrest currently offers two interactive TV software products:

HomeCast™ is a TV application that aggregates Internet video podcasts and allows users to navigate with a convenient, TV-friendly guide. It is available in Flash (lite and full) or HTML5 versions for television platforms.

Kylo™ is a free web browser for television. Designed to create a TV-friendly pointing experience for browsing the Internet, Kylo offers unparalleled ease in exploring the world of web content on your TV screen. Kylo can be downloaded at www.kylo.tv.

Professional Services:

Hillcrest offers custom design and development services that allow you to take full advantage of our experience in creating applications optimized for the 10-foot TV viewing experience.

Features and Benefits:

Unique user experience for connected TVs

  • Complete system solutions
  • Dramatically increases the efficiency of both the presentation of and interaction with digital media
  • Displays up to twenty times more choices per screen than textual program guides do
  • Takes advantage of the human cognitive ability to process graphical information significantly faster than textual information

Flexible application offerings

  • HomeCast™ and Kylo™ web browser applications
  • Standards-based development in HTML5 and Flash
  • Designed for use with webkit or Opera browser embedded platforms
  • A broad range of TV applications that are customizable for a specific product need
  • Dynamic application and service updates over the life of the product

"Did you know that 82% of Internet consumers watch online video? Sure, but did you know that four in five would prefer to watch online video on their primary TV instead of their PC monitor?" The Diffusion Group

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HomeCast Product Brief v1.0

Kylo Product Brief v1.1

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