TiVo’s Vice President of User Experience Design (Margret Schmidt) recently Tweeted that TiVo would like to hire a Flash expert. According to the job description, TiVo is looking for an individual who has experience with developing large complex embedded Flash applications.
TiVo designs and develops Flash Lite applications. It’s all about balancing user experience, technical capability and time-to-market. Easy? No, but we make it look that way for our customers. If you’ve shipped large and complex Flash applications (preferably on an embedded system), we’d like to talk to you.
Your guess is as good as mine however, this job description has me wondering if TiVo has plans to incorporate Flash into a new UI. What do you think? Does this sound like a plausible idea?
It’s not very plasable…. whether it is plausible is a different story.
Thanks
.
I’d like to see TiVo do something besides Flash. It’s processor intensive and it just going to slow down the UI in my opinion.
They need to do something though….their UI is dated. Take a look at the Media Center in Windows 7 and compare that to TiVo and you’ll see why I make the jump and ditched my TiVos last month.
Yeah, definitely more than prototyping if they’re talking embedded systems. Nice catch!
Hopefully it’s part of an entire UI refresh, like those leaked videos. Replacing the slow-a$$ Java-based HME apps is a no brainer (if the new stuff is speedier), but it’s time to refresh it all – quicker, more lively not less (flat, like the Comcast TiVo GUI).
[...] looking for a seasoned flash developer to help out with “embedded systems.” The UI’s not bad, but it’s showing [...]
[...] looking for a seasoned flash developer to help out with “embedded systems.” The UI’s not bad, but it’s showing [...]
[...] looking for a seasoned flash developer to help out with “embedded systems.” The UI’s not bad, but it’s showing [...]
Maybe this is for a mobile phone app of some sort?
[...] TiVo Blog Related PostsTiVo to Offer Blockbuster OnDemand Blockbuster OnDemand might not be your favorite [...]
This gets me thinking… Hulu is Flash-based. Perhaps a new partnership? Would be nice to get more on-demand programming.
Broadcom added native support for Flash Lite 3 in its newest DVR SoCs. These SoCs are are significantly faster than those found in the TivoHD and Series3. Press release:
http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s357665&industry_id=4
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/features/
The next-generation BCM7410 and BCM7420 SoCs (1500 DMIPS) will also support Flash Lite when they become available.
Within a a few years, embedded systems should have access to most, if not all, features currently supported by the desktop version of Flash.
I know one provider recently began work on a Flash-based UI to replace their current UI. I think it is very likely that others are doing the same. Good to hear that TiVo is joining the party.
There are loads of talented Flash developers seeking work, so R&D wise, it certainly sounds like a cost-effective way to build a new interface. I would not at all be surprised if Flash were to become ‘the standard’ for embedded UIs in the next 12-24 months.
[...] La verdad que la oferta pinta bien [...]
[...] do you think? Is today’s Tweet by Margret Schmidt (VP of User Experience) yet another sign that TiVo is working on a new UI? If I had to guess, I’d say yes…. The TiVo User [...]
Ryan, the Media Center in Windows 7 and on the Xbox is a train wreck. It is fundamentally the same Windows Media centers in prior versions of Windows that has earn it a spot on just about every top 10 worst technologies list published over the last two years. Tivo’s OS is not based on the newest, snappiest technology, but it still stands peerless in the design and functionality category.
Hmmmm…Hulu is flash-based, Hulu plans to charge for content. Could a model be in the works that brings Hulu onto Tivo?