Furthering this conversation, Foxtel's executive director of content, product and delivery innovation Patrick Delany was the keynote speaker at Microsoft's ReMix conference in Melbourne yesterday, discussing the ways this newly formed partnership would help Foxtel overcome one of its major weaknesses to date: the ability for subscribers to effectively search for content and share recommendations.
To demonstrate future possibilities, the ReMix team put together a demonstration using Microsoft Surface, a Windows Phone 7 handset and, a device we had assumed was dead in the water, the HP Slate.
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Foxtel has been available to Telstra customers on phones for sometime, but what you'll see in this gallery is about as far from streaming media as you can get.
So imagine you go to a boxing match that is also being broadcast on Foxtel. Without having to do anything the software detects your location and returns a dialog like this.
So after you click "yes" to the question in the previous slide, Foxtel could send you stats and other info you'd only receive at home in front of the boob tube.
As we mentioned before, Foxtel wants to be a part of the way its users share their favourite shows, to be a part of the conversations we have. In this picture, the coffee cup starts the conversation by linking to a few TV favourites.
An HTC HD2 on the surface brings up a dial pad, but what you can't see is the demonstrator at the event sliding info from the Foxtel logo to the handset.
. You probably can't read it, but under the poster image there are Foxtel links asking if you want to set a recording, download the movie or play it on the phone.
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Back to the future
Sales calls aside, we're taken back to friends talking about their favourite movies, like the Matt Damon film The Informant
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A quick swipe of the finger and the movie moves from one friend's phone to the other's.
