What to show on our office bigscreen?

October 1, 2008 4:05 AM

Are there any websites optimised to show a news feed on a TV screen?

I'm wondering what to show on our newly mounted plasma screen in the office. We've got a PC attached to it that's currently showing a blocky feed from the BBC website.

posted by viama to computers & internet (2 comments total)

Zattoo or Joost?
posted by slater at 4:27 AM on October 1, 2008

It's overkill, maybe, but the RSS screensaver built into OSX is very very pretty. Point it at any RSS feed and poof, gorgeous.

I've seen it used in banks and other waiting rooms this way. Only Mac users recognize it, I guess, but I don't find that problematic. If you cared to disguise it more by changing the colors and such, I think there's a code sample on the free developer tools cd.

There might (must?) be a Windows clone of that screensaver by now, I'd think, too... but I don't know that world as well.
posted by rokusan at 8:30 AM on October 1, 2008