Culturebox on Apple TV: the Making Of

We have just published on the AppStore a new version of our Culturebox app that was (briefly) featured in the last Apple Keynote. Although it looks very similar to the previous version we published back in October, and provides access to the same catalog of live and replay videos, it...

TV Connectée – Création d’un framework

Lors du développement sur HbbTV l’un des principaux problèmes que nous rencontrons est les spécificités et bugs liés au device sur lequel se trouve l’utilisateur. Nous en parlions dans l’article sur les limitations, certains bugs sont spécifiques à une marque voir même à une année de télévisions. Par exemple les...

HbbTV : Creating a test broadcast feed

France Televisions has been involved in HbbTV since 2010, and our frontend developers learned its limitations "the hard way" over the past 5 years. In the previous post we discussed the main bugs and limitations we encountered on real TV sets. In this post we will discuss how to create...

HbbTV : Bugs and limitations

France Televisions has been involved in HbbTV since 2010, and our frontend developers learned its limitations "the hard way" over the past 5 years. In the previous post we discussed what tools and good practices HbbTV developers should follow. In this post we list the main bugs and limitations we...

HbbTV : Introduction to HbbTV

France Televisions has been involved in HbbTV since 2010, and our frontend developers learned its limitations "the hard way" over the past 5 years. Today we are proud to share with you an "hitchhikers guide to hbbtv". What is HbbTV? The first HbbTV compatible TV sets appeared in 2011, the...

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to the blog of the France Televisions Connected TV team! On this blog we will try to share our experiences working on Connected TV apps. At France TV we work on many different technologies, such as HbbTV, Smart TV, Android TV, Tizen, Web OS... and we will share with you...