Streaming and content sharing on Philips TVs

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2 Streaming and content sharing on Philips TVs To support a wide selection of second-screen usage scenarios, the Philips TVs support various state-ofthe-art streaming applications. Philips MyRemote app featuring Simply Share and Wi-Fi Smart Screen, Wi-Fi Miracast and MultiRoom Viewing allow wireless streaming to and from mobile devices in the house. Content Introduction...2 Streaming via MyRemote app...2 SimplyShare...2 Wi-Fi Smart Screen...2 Wi-Fi Miracast...2 Miracast, SimplyShare and Wi-Fi Smart Screen...3 What is DLNA?...3 USB playback: easy content sharing on Philips TVs...3 MultiRoom Viewing: in-house broadcasting...4 1

3 Introduction Today s consumers have lots of multimedia content stored on their smartphones, tablets, notebooks, desktop computers, and USB storage devices. There is a clear demand for sharing photos, movies, and user-generated videos with others with little hassle, whilst maintaining good picture quality, on the big screen of a TV. On the other hand, smart mobile devices are increasingly popular as second screens, with the TV at the heart of the multimedia home network. Philips TVs support a wide selection of second-screen usage and content streaming scenarios. We want all Philips TV owners to select the ways of interacting with their Philips TV that they feel most comfortable with. That s why the sets feature various streaming and sharing options including Wi-Fi Smart Screen and SimplyShare both included in the Philips MyRemote app, Wi-Fi Miracast, USB Recording, and MultiRoom Viewing. Streaming via MyRemote app Philips MyRemote app i provides two different ways of content sharing and streaming: SimplyShare and Wi-Fi Smart Screen. SimplyShare Owners of smartphones, tablets, notebooks or desktop PCs often have huge digital libraries with photos, videos and movies stored on their devices. SimplyShare makes it possible to watch this content on the largest screen in the house the TV. To use SimplyShare, both the TV and the source device need to be connected to the home network; either via cable or wirelessly via Wi- Fi. Any DLNA certified device in the home network can serve as a source device. The Philips MyRemote app with SimplyShare can be downloaded free of charge. The app is available for ios devices including Apple iphone, ipod and ipad, and also for Android devices. Using SimplyShare is very easy. Users just open the SimplyShare app on their touch device, select the source and the TV they want to display the selected content on and that s that. Wi-Fi Smart Screen With Wi-Fi Smart Screen consumers are no longer tied to their sofas when watching digital broadcast TV, but free to watch it wherever they are at home. With Wi-Fi Smart Screen users can easily pull the programme from the TV onto their tablet or smartphone and enjoy digital broadcast TV anywhere in their home. For Wi-Fi Smart Screen usage, both devices, the TV and the receiving tablet or smartphone, need to be connected to the same wireless home network. All Philips Smart TVs from the PFL6008 series upwards support Wi-Fi Smart Screen. Technologically, Wi-Fi Smart Screen is based on DLNA ii specifications (see info box What is DLNA? on page 3). Wi-Fi Smart Screen is part of the Philips MyRemote app. It is available for devices using ios as their operating system including Apple iphone and Apple ipad. A version supporting Android devices will be released at a later date. Wi-Fi Miracast Wi-Fi Miracast allows easy sharing between devices by wirelessly mirroring a screen onto another one. It works without a network connection. With Miracast users can view a video or a movie stored, for example on a smartphone or a tablet, on the TV s big screen or mirror a presentation from a laptop s screen onto a conference room s large TV 2

4 using relevant Wi-Fi Miracast compatible Intel WiDi capabilities. Miracast is the brand name for a Wi-Fi Alliance certification program that ensures multi-vendor interoperability. Technologically, Miracast uses a high-speed Wi-Fi Direct connection, which is based on the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Display Specification. Wi-Fi Direct enables Wi-Fi devices to connect directly without setting up a network connection. Wi-Fi Miracast exactly replicates the source screen onto the client screen. All Philips Smart TVs in the 2013 range are Wi-Fi Miracast certified and can serve as display device. Smartphones using Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), for example, can serve as source devices. As mentioned earlier, Wi-Fi Miracast is based on Wi-Fi Display specifications. Miracast compatible Intel WiDi notebooks can also mirror their screen to the TV. For an overview of all Wi-Fi certified Miracast devices, please visit the Wi-Fi Alliance website. Miracast, SimplyShare and Wi-Fi Smart Screen What are the distinctions between Wi-Fi Miracast, SimplyShare and Wi-Fi Smart Screen? At first view, the applications seem the same; they are all streaming content from one device to another. But they differ in the streaming directions and how they set up the connection between the devices. Simply speaking, both Wi-Fi Smart Screen and SimplyShare stream data via the home network router to the client. This could potentially compromise the networking experience of other users connected to the home network. For instance, imagine a family where a teenager is playing a PC online game while his/her parents stream a movie with Wi-Fi Smart Screen; both demand a large share of the router s capacity, which could result in judder in either application. With Miracast, you can avoid those conflicts as Miracast is using a direct connection (Wi-Fi direct) between the TV and the mobile device without the router being involved. What is DLNA? Wi-Fi Smart Screen, SimplyShare and MultiRoom Viewing build on DLNA. But what is it? DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance, which is a non-profit organization defining interoperability guidelines to enable devices such as TVs, tablets, smartphones, notebooks and speakers to share digital content. To make it clear: DLNA isn t a transmission technology such as Wi-Fi. DLNA paraphrases a protocol (technically speaking it is Universal Plug and Play, UPnP) that defines how devices from different vendors can interoperate in order to share content. DLNA and UPnP distinguish various device classes: devices that play content are classified as Digital Media Renderer. A Digital Media Server stores content and makes it available for other devices in the network. A Digital Media Controller can find content on Digital Media Servers and play it on a Digital Media Renderer. There are many more classes. USB playback: easy content sharing on Philips TVs We ve already discussed in some depth the advanced features, such as Wi-Fi Miracast, Wi-Fi Smart Screen and SimplyShare, which are supported by Philips Smart TVs. But what about devices such as the small screen TV series PFL2908 and PFL4008, and other Philips 3

5 TV series that do not feature Smart TV? Do owners have to dispense with sharing? No, they don t. They only miss out on advanced sharing and streaming capabilities. Most Philips TVs support, for example, USB playback. With USB playback consumers can plug in a USB memory stick and easily play back content stored on the USB device. The new 2013 range of Philips TVs from the PFL6008 series upwards can serve as a server TV iii. All 2013 Philips Smart TVs iii are able to serve as a client TV in a MultiRoom viewing set up. MultiRoom Viewing: in-house broadcasting MultiRoom Viewing is the next big step in inhouse content streaming. Imagine you are watching a pay-per-view movie on your TV in the living room and you are getting tired. Up to now, you had to remain on your sofa in the living room until the movie ended. With MultiRoom Viewing, you get the opportunity to continue watching the paid content on a second TV in your bedroom. MultiRoom Viewing allows follow me watching of digital TV programs, both free-toair and pay-per-view. Both the server TV and rendering TV need to be connected to the same home network either wirelessly or via cable. i MyRemote App can be downloaded from the itunes App Store or Google Play Store. ii The 2013 range of Philips TVs currently is in the process of DLNA certification. iii Firmware update is needed. It will be available for download free of charge in the second quarter of The content in this document is accurate at the time of publication but may be subject to change without notice. All trademarks mentioned in this news release are the property of their respective owners. About TP Vision TP Vision is a dedicated TV player in the world of visual digital entertainment. TP Vision concentrates on developing, manufacturing and marketing Philips branded TV sets in Europe, Russia, Middle East, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and selected countries in Asia-Pacific. We do this by combining our design expertise and innovative Philips TV heritage with the operational excellence, flexibility and speed of TPV Technology. With these combined strengths, we bring high-quality TV sets to the market: smart and easy to use with sophisticated styling accentuating i.e. new materials and slim design. We believe in creating products that offer a superior TV experience for consumers. With Philips TVs, TP Vision is a global leader in the hospitality market. Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, TP Vision is the exclusive brand licensee of Philips TV for the above listed countries. The TV Company is 70% owned by TPV Technology, headquartered in Taiwan, and 30% by Royal Philips Electronics, headquartered in the Netherlands. TP Vision employs close to 3,300 people in several locations around the globe. 4