Introducing More Than 30 New Yahoo! Connected TV Apps
Today, we are excited to welcome to the family more than 30 new TV apps available across the Yahoo! Connected TV platform, bringing our total to more than 120 available TV apps.
Our TV app experience currently powers the TVs of more than 8 million households on leading brand sets including VIZIO, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and LG. As you know, Connected TV apps run the gamut from fun to functional, including social networking, streaming music, casual games, personalized financial quotes, locally relevant news, weather and sports, and more than 75,000 movies and TV shows on demand.
App developers can create free or paid TV apps for the Connected TV platform. The Yahoo! Connected TV Store, featuring a gallery of for-fee TV apps, is expected to launch in the near future. Yahoo! is also preparing a pilot program for broadcast interactivity, which will sync TV apps with live broadcast content, as announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.
New TV apps recently made available on the Yahoo! Connected TV platform include:
Sports:
- NHL GameCenter™ – The free NHL GameCenter™ app makes a great companion to watching live NHL hockey on television. People can keep track of live playoff scores, stats, news, and highlights from around the league without leaving the game they are watching. Full-length archived and classic games dating back to the 1960s can also be accessed by linking an NHL Vault™ or NHL GameCenter LIVE™ subscription.
Video:
- Vimeo – Host your videos in high quality on Vimeo.com and watch them with the Vimeo TV app, along with thousands of other inspiring works from talented creators.
- BIGSTAR Movies On-Demand – People can stream from a selection of thousands of feature-length independent movies and foreign films, all for less than 17 cents a day through a monthly membership.
Shopping:
- Home Shopping Network – HSN Shop by Remote interactive shopping gives you the ability to purchase items using just a remote control. It’s easy, secure, and the fastest way to buy HSN products.
Entertainment:
- SGNL by Sony – SGNL by Sony provides a close-up look at Sony’s gadgets, games, music, and movies.
Photo Sharing:
- Joomeo – View Web-based photo and video albums in a Joomeo space on the TV.
Advertising:
- Ford – Ford Edge, 2012 Ford Focus, and Lincoln MKX – these Ford TV apps display information and videos about the hottest new cars from Ford. As a broadcast interactivity pilot program partner, Ford plans to integrate these TV apps with live TV commercials later this year.
Television Stations:
- TVO Kids and TVO Internet TV – Quality educational video content for kids and grown-ups from TVO, Ontario’s public educational media organization.
- Trinity Broadcast Network – Watch full-length feature films, specials, and TV programs from the world’s largest religious network and America’s most-watched faith channel.
- Local TV stations (20) providing on-demand local weather, news, and sports from the following markets and more:
o Atlanta – WGCL (CBS)
o Detroit – WXYZ (ABC)
o Houston – KHOU (IND)
o Kansas City – KSHB (NBC)
o Las Vegas – KVVU (FOX)
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I want a “Crackle” widget for my Vizio…!!!!!!!
Would love to see the Watch Espn app come to Yahoo Connected TVs.
enjoying the Yahoo widgets; please make Yahoo! email available thanks!
CFNEWS13,Baynews9 and being able to watch a Newscast from a Station. More Games please and a better way to get to Widget Dock and also sort by area meaning like News it would show all the News Channels I have installed and nothing else only if I choose show all.
I would like to see comcast/xfinity added to the widgets app
I second that comment with C Edwards, add Yahoo email to an app, like to add I was expecting this type of App but was sorely disappointed when I did not find one on my Vizio TV
Why was the “TV Guide” widget deleted by Vizio or yahoo? On my Vizio TV, it was recently turned off and then later was automatically deleted. Please explain. Will there be another tv guide widget to take its place? thank you.
I would like to see the ATT Uverse App and HBO to Go App added.
How can I delete or refresh widget on my Vizio tv. I have the Amazon instant video widget that seems stuck. I would like to remove it and reinstall it.
I too was disapointed to find that I could not access my Yahoo mail through the Yahoo Widget GAllery on my Vizio TV.
I’m running a media server at home. Any chance that someone will develop an app that’ll let me connect to it and share my and my son’s tvs? Someone somewhere has got to be working on something like this. Please?
I have had this TV for 3 years now, and I am amazed that there are not more apps available. I purchased this TV for ALOT of money because SAMSUNG has an amazing picutre….. however, sad to say it appears to be behind the times and limits my abilities. My next TV will be Vizio, sooooo much more reasonably priced and smart enough to provide access to basic apps like netflix and hulu. One would think with this kind of price tag, Samsung would focus on customers’ needs and update the libraries of the consumers that have made the purchase. Great picture, but I might as well hang it in my closet behind the coats – or go invest even more money on their competition so that I can actually watch more than the news.
How about an Internet Browser App??? I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure the Google base widgets have this. Is there some fundamental aspect that will not let this happen? I’m not super computer savvy but almost every phone out there has an internet browser so you can’t tell me it doesn’t fit in a ginormous TV or the technology isnt there (although the technology may not be in my model). Anyway, it does have some nice widgets that I use a lot, Netflix, Pandora, but when I bought this “Internet TV” I assumed it had the “Internet” like an iPhone does.
These Vizio apps are too proprietary and restrictive!!!
Great TV (Vizio M420sv led) However I thought i BOUGHT an INTERNET TV If you think you are going on the internet, THINK AGAIN! This reminds me of having AOL and not seeing the rest of the internet back in the day
Here is just a sample of Obvious Places YOU CANT GO with these SO CALLED APPS
Free HULU (you CAN go to paid HULU PLUS though)
Comcast / Xfinity
You Tube
Any interactive sites (Like NY Times)
Any site you can think of that is free
Dont buy these these with the expectation that you will have full access to the net,, the products just “name drops” internet sites,, the feature is generally worthless unless you want to pay for all these site
bueno
Attention Yahoo !!!
Rumor is Google TV is ready for CES this month and Visio may be jumping ship!
Get this thing working and give us more than a PUNY 30 options (I dont think Montana local news is a viable widget for the vast majority of the continetal US!) . or once again your company will be caught asleep at the switch as it has as the rest of the newt has passed you by
Either get us a basic interface (dont now how> try the internet channel on a Wii System, I may not be able to open every video but i can surf and then others will follow.
Make it thru the basic Yahoo portal so we have to use your search engine to get out there.
Do I have to write the widget for you … If I do, ill just take the set back and wait til Google TV
PS Where is regular HULU We aint paying!
Hey coul u a hulu plus please
Amazon Video is available through connected tv. I have yet to be able to find the app. As an Amazon Prime member, this could be huge for me. Any help?
i did everything right , but i cant watch videos on justin tv, why? please help me
get a roku box has all the apps u need
Why Vimeo is not available in Italy ?
@ABU: Developers and publishers decide what countries they launch their apps in. Sometimes an app does not get released to a country due to content rights.
I would like just one widjet that works as it is suppose to. They work haphazard are not at all. I see a class action lawsuit in the making. Facebook has never ever streamed video although it has an icon to do so. Smart TV (NOT). do not waste your money on one of these tv,s. They got me good.