Given that the ABC’s mantra is to spread its content far and wide, it’s no surprise that Panasonic today has announced that its Smart Viera online content hub will offer ABC’s iView service.
ABC iView joins Yahoo!7 on Panasonic’s online platform for local content, with Panasonic’s Paul Reid promising more local content partnerships to be announced soon.
Panasonic has also developed an SDK to allow developers to create applications for the Smart Viera platform, from games to weather to Facebook.
Fred
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6:25 PMHaven’t Sony offered Iview and other services for some time?
Ozzy
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 6:38 PMI don’t think so ! If not I would have got a Sony but after comparing the Contrast Ratio 5,000,000 : 1 – no Sony or Samsung comes even close to the Panasonic HD Plasma 1080 TVs !
Funky J
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:08 PMFar and wide…
except to taxpayers who live outside the country.
dlutchy
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 5:16 PMIts about time. I have been waiting with my Panasonic Plasma since the beginning of the year.
Samsung Owner
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:01 PMOh.. boo hoo. Samsung owners have been waiting over six months for our widget since the ABC annouced it. Still no sign.
Ozzy
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 6:35 PMviera_connect works for Panasonic. Samsung oweners keep waiting unfortunately. Soon SBS’s OnDemand will be joining the Viera Connect