Toshiba Remote Controls

Interactive TV News Round-Up (V): Rovi, Toshiba, TiVo, TV Genius

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Rovi and Toshiba have signed a multi-year agreement for use of Rovi's TotalGuide EPG (note: for more on the latter, see the article published on itvt.com, January 11th, 2010) and the company's EPG patent portfolio in Toshiba TV sets, Blu-ray players and recorders, as well as in mobile and tablet devices that Toshiba plans to sell in the US and Europe next spring. "Rovi TotalGuide unifies search, discovery and recommendations to provide consumers with one destination where they can access content seamlessly from the Internet and from broadcast services," Rovi states in its press materials. "In addition, Rovi and Toshiba will be working together to launch new interactive advertising capabilities on Toshiba devices with TotalGuide, helping to expand the value to advertisers, and extend the reach to consumers on the Rovi Advertising Network...In addition to the latest licensing agreement, Rovi is powering a number of other digital entertainment capabilities on Toshiba's connected devices. The company's RoxioNow entertainment platform is behind the recent launch of a new retailer-branded entertainment storefront on the Toshiba VX700 and WX800 3D series LED HDTV's, and DivX Certification helps the optimized playback of video content in the popular format." TiVo has announced the availability of a free TiVo App for iPhone and iPod touch (note: the company already offers an iPad version). "The TiVo App allows users to search, browse, explore and share comments about their favorite programs all without interrupting the programming currently playing on their TiVo box," the company states in its press materials. "Based on TiVo's signature TV experience, the TiVo App also brings intuitive remote control operations to the tips of users' fingers with simple gesture-based controls. Users can quickly uncover program guides and information, view, schedule and manage recordings, get recommendations, or even explore an actor's entire career with a single tap. The high-resolution screen and Retina Display of iPhone and iPod touch make viewing the onscreen navigation simple and easy.

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As for the home user, there's a few options...but obviously things like TeamViewer are out of the question. I think this leaves a couple choices...remote desktop or LogMeIn. Remote desktop is a fine, inexpensive solution that requires only a minor setup...however, when it comes to accessing the computer over the internet, there are complications. Unlike many remote solutions (like LogMeIn), there's a firewall traversal issue to deal with. Since a remote session would come from the outside in, ports must be forwarded in order for the remote desktop to work. If one knows their way around their firewall and knows to pop open TCP 3389 to their PC, life is golden and one can use a variety of RDP apps to access their machine. Depending on the app...some things like sound, file transfers and other things may (or probably won't) work. Given the complications with firewalls, I'd recommend LogMeIn for the home user since it eliminates the firewall issue. It's an all in one solution, it's relatively polished and it requires only a couple application installs. I even use it and I like it because it uses a wicked strong encryption and did I mention, it's FREE, although the Android app (Ignition) does cost money. Ignition does have an issue with file transfers right now, but that will eventually be solved. For the business, I think this entirely depends on the remote solution in place right now. If it's RDP, that's the way to go. If it's TeamViewer, then that's the way to go. If you're heavily invested into Citrix, stick with it. If it's (God forbid), LogMeIn...then go there. There's a whole slew of solutions out there, most of which aren't even mobile yet. Personally, I think RDP is the best, most refined and least capital-intensive remote access solution for the LAN environment. Again, outside the firewall, it can be complicated...but a business can hire a guy like me to come poke NAT's and PAT's through their corporate firewall all day long. To me, though, most corporate support will be done on the LAN/WAN and so firewall traversal isn't usually a big issue. If it is, set up an RDP server, hit it from the outside and bam, you're everywhere in your network via RDP, TeamViewer or whatever solution. For a widespread deployment though (like end-user support), TeamViewer or something along those lines will definitely be the way to go because of the enhanced business features. With that said, given the kind of remote support *I* do for work...

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