BBC Internet Blog - Richard Felton https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/ Staff from the BBC's online and technology teams talk about BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC's digital and mobile services. The blog is reactively moderated. Posts are normally closed for comment after three months. Your host is Eliza Kessler. en Copyright 2012 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:03 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Flickr On TV bbci_labs_blog_logo.jpgIn the near future we are going to see more TVs and set-top boxes which incorporate Ethernet ports. Freesat devices already have this feature and the BBC is working with the industry to standardise how MHEG applications could utilise such a connection on compatible Freeview boxes.

To investigate the possibilities of hybrid (IP and broadcast) set-top boxes, I created an application which allows the viewer to browse Flickr feeds on their television.

Read more and comment at the BBCi Labs Blog.

Richard Felton is a research engineer at BBC Research and Innovation.

]]> Richard Felton Richard Felton https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/flickr_on_tv.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/flickr_on_tv.html Connected TV Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:03 +0000