Just got back from ‘Mashed 2008′ run by the BBC with help from Multimap, Channel4, the Guardian etc. I randomly deceided to write an app for digital tv’s with tcp/ip connections. This was done in MHEG Plus, something the beeb have been working on to speed up MHEG development, essentially it’s a preprocessor. With it I wrote an app which can read details like your email/any notifications from a website (providing they’ve been cleaned up by a PHP script) and displays the messages on your TV.
Here’s screenshots taken from the emulator (not a DTV): Read the rest of this entry »