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Corporate tv software solution

Hi to all!

I am working in a company that has several software solutions for many areas. One these areas concerns to publicity in places that has TV, this is, we have a software solution made in the .NET platform that fills the requisites but unfortunately has some problems in a few aspects and i think its not the best solution for what we want:
the caractherists that the software must have are:
  • the software has to run on televisions, or other visual device.
  • it must suport various types of contents: flash(.swf),presentations(.ppt),webpages,movies(.m peg etc) and other that could be implemented
  • the software must be splitted in 5 areas, each one can present diferent types of contents as i told in the previouse topic.
  • the software must have de capability of transfering the content files from a FTP server trought the internet connection.
  • the software must be able to interact with a mysql database to perform querys or insert values, for example to know the update date of the contents files.
these area a few carachteristics of the sofware that we have now. we would like rebuild all the sofware, thats why i ask for your opinion on what would be the bests platforms/laguages/methods to implement such software.

Any opinion would be appreciated

thanks in advance.
Jan 17 '08 #1
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RedSon
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Hi to all!

I am working in a company that has several software solutions for many areas. One these areas concerns to publicity in places that has TV, this is, we have a software solution made in the .NET platform that fills the requisites but unfortunately has some problems in a few aspects and i think its not the best solution for what we want:
the caractherists that the software must have are:
  • the software has to run on televisions, or other visual device.
  • it must suport various types of contents: flash(.swf),presentations(.ppt),webpages,movies(.m peg etc) and other that could be implemented
  • the software must be splitted in 5 areas, each one can present diferent types of contents as i told in the previouse topic.
  • the software must have de capability of transfering the content files from a FTP server trought the internet connection.
  • the software must be able to interact with a mysql database to perform querys or insert values, for example to know the update date of the contents files.
these area a few carachteristics of the sofware that we have now. we would like rebuild all the sofware, thats why i ask for your opinion on what would be the bests platforms/laguages/methods to implement such software.

Any opinion would be appreciated

thanks in advance.
The biggest problem is going to be your first bullet point. Televisions do not have software that is programmable, they are mostly analog and use A/D converters and the rest is run through hardware and software on ROM. I have never heard of a TV that will allow you to run software, in order to run software you need things like RAM, and a OS kernel, and something like a serial port.

I've never seen a TV like that.
Jan 17 '08 #2
The biggest problem is going to be your first bullet point. Televisions do not have software that is programmable, they are mostly analog and use A/D converters and the rest is run through hardware and software on ROM. I have never heard of a TV that will allow you to run software, in order to run software you need things like RAM, and a OS kernel, and something like a serial port.

I've never seen a TV like that.
sorry i express me very bad :(, i dont want to run software in television, the television its only used as display device, the software will run on a regular pc with a video card that allows this software to catch the signal and then show it trought the display device (tv, lcd screens etc).
Jan 17 '08 #3
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
sorry i express me very bad :(, i dont want to run software in television, the television its only used as display device, the software will run on a regular pc with a video card that allows this software to catch the signal and then show it trought the display device (tv, lcd screens etc).
.NET should be able to do all that except for the flash stuff. In what ways do you find .NET insufficient?
Jan 17 '08 #4
.NET should be able to do all that except for the flash stuff. In what ways do you find .NET insufficient?
you are right in saying that .NET should be able to do all what we want, in fact even the flush stuff does throught an external dll that we have arranjed. what i want to know is there another solution that we can use that could be better to dealing with we want or we should continue with our .NET solution and thanks for your attention.
Jan 18 '08 #5
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
you are right in saying that .NET should be able to do all what we want, in fact even the flush stuff does throught an external dll that we have arranjed. what i want to know is there another solution that we can use that could be better to dealing with we want or we should continue with our .NET solution and thanks for your attention.
I think you should continue with .NET. You can try migrating to C++ .NET but you are already in a high level language, so it might not gain you anything except faster execution time. If you did not used managed code you would need to find all the libraries that you needed and build them into the project which can be much more time consuming. Then instead of working with one unified suite of libraries you are going to be working with several discrete pieces of software.
Jan 18 '08 #6
I think you should continue with .NET. You can try migrating to C++ .NET but you are already in a high level language, so it might not gain you anything except faster execution time. If you did not used managed code you would need to find all the libraries that you needed and build them into the project which can be much more time consuming. Then instead of working with one unified suite of libraries you are going to be working with several discrete pieces of software.
yeah, i agree tanks for your opinion :)
Jan 18 '08 #7

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