Yes. but wifi not bluetooth. Bluetooth has range resrictions and is a major battery hog, whereas most people will have wifi on in their homes anyway. It also means that all ubuntu devices in a home can be connected all the time as long as they are on the wifi.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < [email protected]> wrote: > Den 28. nov. 2011 22:55, skrev Thomas Mashos: > > Please walk me through a typical day in the live of this TV for a family >> of 4. >> > > Alright. > > 6AM. Parents get out of bed, do their morning stuff, makes coffee and > switches on their TV to watch the morning news. Only the normal remote > control is needed for this, but anyone can also use their phones without > any logins. Using just bluetooth. Family calendar displays notifications > for birthdays and other important things that happens today. > > 13:00. The youngest child comes home from school, finishes homework and > goes into the living room to watch some TV, chat with friends and play. She > logs onto the TV, which provides child-friendly content, her IM roster, and > other personal stuff. As her friends finishes their homework and go online, > she gets notifications. She chat's a little bit while watching cartoons. > When she's typing, her text is displayed at the top center of the screen, > so that it doesn't get in the way of subtitles. You can't dub Inspector > Gadget. That would be herecy. The chat backlog is displayed as an overlay > along the right side of the screen, from the bottom and up to a certain > height. The oldest backlog entries fade into the cartoon. After a certain > amount of time, the entire chat begins to fade and the cartoon becomes > entirely visible until she or her friend says something. When the cartoon > finishes, she decides to go out to climb the trees and hunt for butterflies. > > 15:00. The teenager comes home. He shoots his shoes at the wall, throws > his jacket on the floor, and throws himself into the living room couch to > play Doom 3 on the big screen for a while, using the netbook as keyboard > and mouse. The game runs full screen on the 50" display, but very important > things appear as notifications. > > 17:00. Parents come home and chases the teenager into his room to do his > homework. Father logs onto the TV, watches some news and catches up with > emails. Mother goes into the kitchen to prepare dinner. Logs onto her 20" > wall-mounted, touch screen, Ubuntu kitchen TV. In the living room, a > notification appears on the big screen. The teenager needs a little help > with the math. Father presses 5 on the remote control to accept the > screen-share with audio and webcam in the corner. Turns out math isn't > fathers strong suit, so he forwards the conference to mother. She gets a > notification on her kitchen screen and explains it to the both of them, > whereupon the teenager ends the conference and goes back to his homework. > The family phone rings, and a notification appears on everyone's screens. > Mother thinks it's her friend, so she picks up by pressing the indicator on > her kitchen screen. But it turns out to be a telemarketer, and she doesn't > have time for that, so she forwards it to the living room. Father politely > tells the telemarketer to go somewhere hot, and wishes him a good trip. > > 1900: Mother takes her laptop into the living room to finish her work. She > connects to the TV and switches over to desktop view. She then opens her > spreadsheets on the big screen and her email on the laptop screen. She > moves the laptop mouse pointer onto the big screen when she wants to work > on that, and back to the laptop screen to work on that. It feels exactly > the same as it does with her docking station in the office, except the > screen is much bigger... and she has a couch to lean back into. > > 20:00 - onwards: The TV is used to play music, watch TV with set-top > functionality, streaming from and recording to their Ubuntu Home Server. > Casual surfing, a few phone calls, etc. > > Christmas eve: > > Relatives who live far apart switches on the webcam on their Ubuntu TVs > and streams their christmas parties to each other. It's almost like they're > together in the same room. Youngest child has gotten exactly the doll she > wanted, and she up to the TV to show her grandparents what she has. She's > so proud. > > Just as we will be when this becomes reality. :) > > Jo-Erlend Schinstad > > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**tv<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tv> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**tv<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tv> > More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >
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