And the Emmy Goes To… The Yahoo! Connected TV team!
Yahoo! Connected TV team recognized for engineering excellence.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, yes The Academy, is honoring the Yahoo! Connected TV team with the 2011 Primetime Emmy Engineering Plaque for engineering excellence. While this award event won’t be televised, we’re darn proud of our team just the same. The competition for engineering awards in the TV ecosystem is fierce as it runs the gamut from video editing to the architecture of connected devices.
The Academy is recognizing Yahoo! Connected TV for its leadership in establishing and growing the broader Internet-connected TV marketplace. The announcement of Yahoo! Connected TV at CES in 2009 was the starting point for modern Internet connectivity in the living room, ushering in an explosion of consumer personalization and choice and enhancing the TV viewing experience.
The Yahoo Connected TV team continues to innovate in 2011 with Broadcast Interactivity, Device Communication and the TV App Store. Broadcast Interactivity delivers Internet Content based on the TV show or Advertisement you are watching. Device Communication adds interactivity with smart phones and tablets by supporting gestures for navigation and video playback to the TV. The Yahoo Connected TV Store has more than 180 easy-to-use TV apps, running the gamut from video on demand, including more than 75,000 movies and TV shows on-demand, to news, finance, sports, games, social networking, music, photo sharing, shopping, and more.
Today Yahoo! Connected TV is the leading platform in terms of smart TV adoption, with more than 8 million devices with the Yahoo! Connected TV platform in homes across 135 countries. Yahoo! Connected TV It is available across leading TV brands worldwide including Samsung, Sony, VIZIO, Toshiba, and HiSense. For more info on Yahoo Connected TV go to connectedtv.yahoo.com.
And we’ve just begun! There’s so much more coming in Yahoo! Connected TV!
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This is wonderful and good of yahoo to share.
There is little to applaud here. Linking these apps to a limited number of television manufacturers is insulting to the majority of your subscribers.
Reducing your investment, however substantially, through these hardware bundles is a narrow and shortsighted marketing strategy.
This is a new (unwelcome) spin on closed architecture development.
There’s an incalculable wealth of over-charged and under-served cable subscribers on this planet (and on yahoo).
Portable TV Apps are the only answer. Your hardware partnerships should be with the PVR/DVR/TiVO manufacturers.
You have what it takes to bring about the demise of old-school coaxial cable hookups.
Cable companies deserve nothing less than complete extinction. The technology is already in place – think of VoIP – when can cable consumers expect relief from this expensive and outdated bondage?
Thanks for listening
D. Findlay Stewart
There is no doubt that Yahoo blew the doors open on this space and set a high bar that arguable none have achieved to date. Their comprehensive solution took many of the aspects of television apps platforms into account in early versions and the technology has continued to evolve. For CE companies that do not have the resources to manage the multiple large teams required to support a TV apps platform Yahoo was the clear choice. Without Yahoo this entire TV apps industry would still be 100% vapor and coming “201?”.
D. – Good thoughts, but seek and you will find that some of your arguments would not be supported by the facts. Also, the last time I checked, it costs money to produce and distribute the content that TV consumers consume on their TVs. VOIP is just bits, and the content is free…