Comments on: The story behind DIAL: How Netflix and YouTube want to take on AirPlay http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: virtualCable TV http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1316770 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:48:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1316770 WiFi Alliance supports Miracast as the de facto standard and their website has a large number of TVs and devices that support Miracast. Now comes DIAL which is very confusing in this context

]]> By: Zogar The Inedible http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1304419 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:06:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1304419 I just want my portable media player to play through terrifyingly powerful speakers at home or in the truck without having to run patch cables across the room or degrade the quality by resorting to Bluetooth.

]]> By: Tim Meyer http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1303799 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:16:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1303799 I would add devs writing directly to Webkit causing all sorts of heartache to Microsoft IE which ironically follows web standards.

Standards seem to be only good in theory.

]]> By: lucasgonze http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1303295 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:32:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1303295 This is very well factored. They deliver the maximum amount of power with the least possible amount of work.

DLNA has been around for quite a while and is unlikely to break through. It is designed for a specific use case that is very narrow – browsing the local library on a media server computer attached to your TV. There is a new generation of the protocol but it is not widely adopted.

So I think this is a promising piece of work. Congratulations to the developers who made it.

]]> By: Joao Filipe Pinto Lopes http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1303235 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:04:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1303235 Seams great but it fails to address the same problem previous attempts had.
It requires app support. Airplay does not.
Airplay is an OS built in feature. A protocol that is always available in the background.
If there is sound being played doesn’t matter what app is playing it. You can send the sound to any Airplay compatible device. Same goes for video. It simply WORKS.
Airplay has a lot of flaws but no one else has been able to provide a solution that works across any app on a particular OS without needing a lot of tech know-how.

]]> By: cowboyjmb http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1303174 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:07:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1303174 Roku actually has a remote app that works quite well, much better than the actual remote that comes with it. I don’t even use the remote anymore, just my phone.

]]> By: Lisa Scott http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1303062 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:49:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1303062 There’s also a possibility of DIAL coming to Chrome so users can launch apps on their TV from their computer’s browser.

- Lisa
http://www.hiredotnetprogrammers.com

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1302986 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:37:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1302986 Open standards always win, you say? That explains why Microsoft Windows/Office, OS X, iPods, iPads all dominate their market. OH WAIT NO, it’s the opposite.

And when you talk about web, do you remember this proprietary thing called Flash? You know the one that Apple basically freed us from? That must really cause confusion inside to know that it was Apple that got everyone onto HTML5 video.

The thing these open standards so far are missing that AirPlay has is that AirPlay actually works well and does what it says. On the other hand we have DLNA which is like pulling teeth in comparison.

]]> By: PhilH http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1302977 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:35:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1302977 Why in the world do tech blogs keep comparing remote app systems to AirPlay??? This solves a totally different problem. Airplay obviously lets you mirror content from a DEVICE to another. If I already have the ability to watch this content like Netflix or YouTube on the receiving device then why in the world would I want to burn battery on say my phone to mirror to the other device. That’s stupid. If you’re a cord cutter you’re going to be burning battery constantly. Not to mention you’re streaming the content from the internet to your device to then stream back to another device. Again…stupid.

What this aims to solve is giving you a full featured remote (you’re using the app itself to you have all the features) to control a content app on another device. Its not about showing content local to the device. That is really what AirPlay and Miracast excel. They would also be good for trips when you want to maybe watch some video on a hotel or relatives TV. But lets be real about that. The chances that the place you’re going will have an AppleTV or DLNA or Miracast are sort of slim. You MIGHT actually find smartTV’s with apps that you could log into and control from your device. Its not like its tough to get adoption like a hardware standard. If its a framework for instance devs have nothing to do but put it in their apps. Hell I wrote a small video app that would allow me to do some basic control from my phone.

]]> By: tapsboy http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/dial-open-airplay-competitor/#comment-1302956 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:47:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603261#comment-1302956 I see this feature already on Netflix and Youtube apps on my Nexus 10. Probably, because I have a Google TV(Revue) on the network too.

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