Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Clik pitches smartphones as YouTube-fuelled remote controls

home is one of several attempts to use a second monitor to control the first

millions of people are eager to find a way to watch YouTube videos on their TVs big? Probably not, although this may change as Google encourages more producers and creators in their original service launch video channels.

However, a new application called Clik offers some thoughts on smartphones role (and by extension, tablets) may play in living rooms connected in the near future.

available for iPhone and Android, the application is the work of the same team that built Kik Messenger, a group messaging application that has attracted 6 million registered users.

At launch, Clik has to do with videos from YouTube: browse them on your smartphone and launch a web browser on a bigger screen, read a QR code and then see videos on the big screen, while controlling the small. Several people can do both, too.

The mention of QR codes raises a warning flag:. An additional step that uncomfortable, over time, will surely become redundant because it makes it easier to make a smartphone and a TV connected to play well together

Yet something to the idea of ??a neutral application that requires no special hardware -. Apple TV set-top box in the case of mirroring Apple's AirPlay, for example,

Clik uses an interesting trend, however: a step from the idea of ??the second screen to do something on your smartphone or tablet and watching another on the TV. This is the control on your TV with your mobile device. By clicking on one of the investors, Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson, is striking the drum for the idea.

Meanwhile, the games that developers Firemint iOS was teething in the AirPlay feature and how it could be used to make the iPhone a controller for a game on the big screen - see their Real Racing 2 for the best example of this action on the measure.
music services

Search also in connecting music company Sonos equipment was made with their applications that make the smartphone or tablet control remotely, not only for their devices, but for different diffusion ( Spotify, Rhapsody and the rest) that passes through them. AirPlay Apple is currently the Music application IOS on a remote control for the speakers and compatible devices too.


There is much more of this to come, and chewing problems as a result, especially when it comes to rights holders.


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