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LG demos Connect SDK works with Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, webOS TV and LG TV.

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LG demos Connect SDK works with to Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, webOS TV and LG TV.

This is a demo of the Media Blaster Demo app that was built using Connect SDK. In the video, a photo, video and YouTube video is sent to multiple TV platforms. This is just a showcase of how easy it is to send media to multiple different Smart TV and set top boxes. Source for this application is coming very soon.

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Your phone or tablet can screen-beam to the LG webOS Smart TV.

Your phone or tablet can screen-beam to the LG webOS Smart TV.

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This is first time LG also showed off some clever connectivity with smartphones and tablets.

How can you that?

Similar to Chromecast, WebOS will let users choose a Netflix or YouTube video from their phones or tablets, and then send the video to the television. 

LG is also working with other developers on more interesting screen-beaming applications. For instance, fitness company Neura created a big-screen version of its ACTV app, and WebOS users can launch it by pressing a button in ACTV’s smartphone app.

Image sharing site Imgur is also adding a button to its app, letting users browse photos on a smartphone and view them on the television. 

Colin Zhao, director of product management at LG’s Silicon Valley Lab said LG is using DIAL–the same prototocol that underpins Chromecast–along with DLNA and other protocols.

Source: WorldWide Tech & Science

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