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Ubuntu TV hands-on at CES 2012

2012-01-09
hi I'm Paul Miller with the verge we're looking at a boon to TV which is running on regular boon tubes running on regular Adam hardware right now it runs on arm as well it's kind of a proof of concept right now but as you can see it's basically a full-on media center they're hoping to integrate it into like TVs that you can actually buy and so you can just you can navigate through movies they're going to have their own movie store you can also view movies that you've recorded from from live TV they'll work with cable card or whatever service your your country is partial to go in here you can rent and buy we'll just play the trailer right now they're just using a boxy remote but they'll obviously have their own standard they use a bluetooth so it should be pretty generic for control you can get into settings here there's a thumbnail preview and also you can go through chapters if you want to skip around and let's get out of there and also while you're while you're watching TV oh no I'm gonna get this I'm gonna get this you can also pull up the browser so you can browse through things while the live TV or movie is still playing in the background they've got a kind of a demo of let's get out of here oh so we've got a demo of their TV guy this isn't live data right now but you know it looks pretty pretty standard and also there's a search interface let's slot it's not like regular unity if I can get it over to it there we go so you can just search uh men there we go really what a lot of searching for a bit
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