ubuntu tv

Millions and millions of users from across the world are currently using Ubuntu, powerful desktop (and server) that offers a bundle of no-compromise qualities, including solid-as-a-rock security, stability and reliability.

Yet, due to the modern times in which we are living, users, in order to satisfy various workflow types, use, along with the desktop, different interface types and form-factors, approach presently targeted by Ubuntu via its (work in progress) unified platform across multiple form-factors.

The latest months represent a definitely exciting period for Canonical, due to the developers' public announcements, demos and presentations of positively-received technologies, innovative technologies that present themselves as modern ways of consuming computer-related content, computer metaphor perceived as and expressed in numerous and diverse form factors.

Weeks ago, Ubuntu TV announced an exciting new road, namely, a new development phase closely related to Ubuntu for phones, approach aimed (,too) at generating (from inside an Ubuntu phone OS phone) an Ubuntu TV experience via simply docking an Ubuntu for phones phone to a monitor.

Ubuntu TV is an already known and appreciated project, Ubuntu technology announced months ago, while, especially in its beginnings, presenting various directions, looks and functionalities in relation to an upcoming future.

2012 has witnessed public in-depth official presentations of numerous exciting Ubuntu technologies, innovative projects that met community members and mainstream IT media, meeting act that generated numerous and numerous positive feedback.

Months ago, the developers announced Ubuntu TV, innovative interface that plunges the user into a TV-oriented experience, while keeping Unity (its feel) in the same "room".

Basically, Ubuntu TV presents itself as an optimized interface, filled with various content types (images, music tracks, video clips, etc), content that is to be digested via a clear intuitive look (with launcher, search area, indicators, etc).

Usually, shipping and/or publishing innovative technologies, tends to trigger feedback, both positive and negative.

Unity has been subjected to a solid amount of community reactions, both positive and negative, furthermore, attracting a "layer" of creative users "competing" with Ubuntu developers, usually in approaches in relation to optimizations rather than focused on core Unity pieces/behaviors/look, shaping Unity through their creativity in a what-should-be interface, should-be focused on minor yet relevant additions.

Unity introduced, along with solid functionalities, a manner of expressing itself and being expressed/filtered through one's creative state, presenting its components (Dash, launcher, etc) with a built-in enhanced capacity of being explored, tweaked, adjusted to one's needs.

Ubuntu TV, from its very beginning, attracted a solid amount of positive feedback and an overall increased interest across the internets, being, along with its Ubuntu for Android "brother", new and exciting technologies launched by Ubuntu in a serious "demand" of reaching numerous hardware formats (phones, TVs, tablets, etc).

Yesterday, January 13, Mark Shuttleworth was interviewed about Ubuntu's CES hot topic, Ubuntu TV, strengthening the TV's values and directions, as "Ubuntu experience contextualized for TV, with a media-centric and online-services-centric approach", confirming Canonical blog's statement, "it was well received, interesting people coming by and lots of interest in the TV experience".