Overview

Welcome to ConnectedTV
Compatible Palm Powered Devices
ConnectedTV Pages, Buttons, and Menu
ConnectedTV Homepage

ConnectedTV is the revolutionary new way to pick TV shows and control your TV with a Palm Powered™ device. It turns a PDA into your personal TV guide and remote control.

From the ConnectedTV Shows page you can browse all your channels using the Palm hardware buttons, see details by touching a show Title or Description, and tune any show by touching the red Touch Tuning button.

An angle in a Show Title's upper left corner means the show starts at or near the current Guide Time.  You can see what's on at a later or earlier time by stroking the Guide Time button upward or downward, respectively.  And other handy shortcuts are available at the stroke of a finger.

Your ConnectedTV listings are full of the stations and shows you want, because you decide what stations and show categories are in it, and in what order, at your ConnectedTV account on line. 

This creates a personalized TV listing for you, up to two weeks long, that's updated every night.  When you download these listings from our site and HotSync them into your Palm, you can see what shows are on right now and tune your show in a touch.

ConnectedTV even lets you pick Favorite shows and movies right at your Palm.   They'll appear on your Favorites page whenever they're on.

Setting up ConnectedTV the first time takes a few minutes setting up your account on our web site, and a few minutes training your Palm to behave like your remote controls.

To put your personalized TV listings on ConnectedTV:

• sign up at www.connected.tv/signup to create your account

• pick your TV service (broadcast, cable, or satellite) and TV lineup

• if you like, customize your channel lineup and categories

• download ConnectedTV and your current TV listings

• HotSync them into your Palm

To tune your TV and control Volume, Mute, and other TV and tuner remote control functions with ConnectedTV:

• train ConnectedTV using your remote controls

Once you've set up ConnectedTV and downloaded your personalized TV schedule, this is all the instruction you need to browse and watch any show. Details, shortcuts, and other ConnectedTV features are described after the Setup instructions.

ConnectedMedia cannot guarantee the range performance of your Palm OS device with your particular TV system, room, and device training. The following current and recent PalmOS PDA lines have relatively good performance as remote controls, controlling some devices from 15 feet, and up to 50 feet in some cases:

• The following current and recent PalmOS PDA lines have relatively good performance as remote controls, controlling some devices from 15 feet, and up to 50 feet in some cases:
  • Palm m100, m105, m125, m130 series.
  • Palm m500, m505, m515 series.
  • Palm IIIc and i705.
  • Palm Tungsten T and Tungsten W, and Tungsten C.
  • Palm Zire and Zire 71.
  • Sony Clie^TM T and NR series including T415, T615, NR70.
  • Handspring Visor^TM Prism, Handspring Visor^TM Platinum.
    (You must turn a Visor sideways to use the built-in IR window on its side to control a TV.)
  • Handera 330
• The following ConnectedTV compatible hardware add-ons extend the infrared control range of Palm Powered PDAs:
  • IR blaster from Tech Center Labs (Sony Clie^TM)
  • OmniRemote Springboard Module (for Visor^TM) from Pacific Neo-Tek
  • OmniRemote Module (for Palm devices) from Pacific Neo-Tek
• The following are recommended for guide browsing and short range (less than 6 feet) TV control:
  • Palm VII/VIIx
  • Palm Powered cellular phones such as Treo, Kyocera, or Samsung i300
• ConnectedTV schedules can be stored on expansion memory using:

  • Memory Cards and Readers, including Multimedia and Secure Digital (SD) Cards, Sony Memory Sticks and Springboard Memory Modules.

1 You must turn a Visor sideways to use the built-in IR window on its side to control a TV.

Visit the www.connected.tv site for links to more information on these products, or to purchase them. 

When your Palm Powered device screen responds to a tap, you hear a click and see the button highlighted. The first time you visit a page after launching ConnectedTV, there may be a delay. Be patient after the click and highlight and don't continue pressing buttons. In subsequent visits the page will be drawn instantly, until you exit ConnectedTV.

You can bring up ConnectedTV's pop-up menu by pressing the standard Palm silk-screen App Menu button at the lower left below the screen.

This lets you go to the most common pages by picking from the menu. You can also access pages using the large buttons on the Home page.

Since users like to grab ConnectedTV like a remote control, we've made it hard to accidentally exit ConnectedTV. To exit to the App Launcher you may either:

•   go to the Home page and tap the Quit button;   

or

•    in the App Menu, tap Quit ConnectedTV.

The base page from which you can reach any ConnectedTV page or exit the program is called the Home page.

When using ConnectedTV, you can always reach this page by pressing the House icon silk-screened on your Palm Powered device, which ordinarily would take you to the Palm Application Launcher.

The Home page also shows when your current TV listing file expires; "No guide" if the schedule file is missing; or "User mismatch" if the Palm User Name for the account doesn't match this PDA.  Tap the Status button to see more detail.