Roku Developer Program

[NathanWhitehead]

This weekend I was thinking about books and ebooks and had the idea of putting ebooks on a Roku channel. I did a few experiments with scanned PDF files on the television. I actually kind of liked it! HD televisions are pretty high-resolution these days, so you can actually read text. Then I asked my wife, and she HATED it.

What do you think? Would reading ebooks on the television be hideous or fabulous? What about a combination of text and voice-over reading?

[TheEndless]

There was some discussion of it a couple of years ago, but the thread went south really quickly: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=34213
I think it would lend itself more to digital comics than general e-books (also discussed previously: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=25214), but it seems there's at least some level of interest.

[NathanWhitehead]

Thanks for the links, some interesting discussions. I like the idea of comic books on TV, that could look nice.