Dear Friends,
I am (with some other friends and colleagues) in the research for a home (Living room) TV based video telephony product (With some value additions). We are planning for the Indian market , and it will be a gadget made by Indians for Indians- not something that gets customized out of the blue for Indian tastes.Usability and localization are the primary design criteria - so that even my mom should be able to use this without any "learning curve". TV is so ubiquitous, so that is our platform. The idea is to bring the real juice of internet to the main stream and this has come out of our own experiences and requirements. All of us have worked abroad for a while at some point of time and has experienced the value (and the pain) of connecting back home through the available internet based telephony services.
Our team brings with us pretty rich experience in the multimedia consumer electronics domain , right from hardware development , system software ,middleware ,application development ,UX and marketing in the broadband space.
We have been researching on the opensource TV box media players for a while now,
XBMC(XBMC), Boxee(Boxee) and MythTV(Mythtv.org) to mention a few.
Certain plugins for mythtv are really good.Esp the mythphone , but i think the deveopment of that is stalled for a long time. And it has been removed from the myth distribution altogether due to inactivity.
/tags/release-0-21/mythplugins/mythphone/README ? MythTV
Also i see the old Skype guys are also in to the same thing now. Check Inkspin1 - Free video calls in your living room TV > Inkspin1 . I think there is some good market for such a product.
We are looking at a lot of features to provide and possibly move with some User Oriented Innovation , so right now we are conducting a market study.
I have created a survey here
Living room video telephony device
It would be extremely good if i can get some feedback. So please spend a few minutes to check the questions.
Thanks for your time,
-Deepak Narayan
9048529436
I am (with some other friends and colleagues) in the research for a home (Living room) TV based video telephony product (With some value additions). We are planning for the Indian market , and it will be a gadget made by Indians for Indians- not something that gets customized out of the blue for Indian tastes.Usability and localization are the primary design criteria - so that even my mom should be able to use this without any "learning curve". TV is so ubiquitous, so that is our platform. The idea is to bring the real juice of internet to the main stream and this has come out of our own experiences and requirements. All of us have worked abroad for a while at some point of time and has experienced the value (and the pain) of connecting back home through the available internet based telephony services.
Our team brings with us pretty rich experience in the multimedia consumer electronics domain , right from hardware development , system software ,middleware ,application development ,UX and marketing in the broadband space.
We have been researching on the opensource TV box media players for a while now,
XBMC(XBMC), Boxee(Boxee) and MythTV(Mythtv.org) to mention a few.
Certain plugins for mythtv are really good.Esp the mythphone , but i think the deveopment of that is stalled for a long time. And it has been removed from the myth distribution altogether due to inactivity.
/tags/release-0-21/mythplugins/mythphone/README ? MythTV
Also i see the old Skype guys are also in to the same thing now. Check Inkspin1 - Free video calls in your living room TV > Inkspin1 . I think there is some good market for such a product.
We are looking at a lot of features to provide and possibly move with some User Oriented Innovation , so right now we are conducting a market study.
I have created a survey here
Living room video telephony device
It would be extremely good if i can get some feedback. So please spend a few minutes to check the questions.
Thanks for your time,
-Deepak Narayan
9048529436