Hack Challenge: Simon Maddox – TV Shows

October 5th, 2007

Simon Maddox – our first place winner in the Hack Challenge, and soon to be proud owner of an iPhone, created an amazing way to find television content and then get it streamed to your phone:

My hack:
TV Shows is an easy way to watch TV shows (such as Heroes, Prison Break etc.) on your mobile. Show details are pulled from TV.com and displayed on the mobile. When you choose a show / season / episode, the system will go off to a video sharing website and pull the content to the server. Once the video has been encoded into a mobile streaming format, the user is sent a text message telling them their show is ready to watch. The TV show is then streamed to the handset (3G recommended).

Watch Simon demonstrate his hack to the camp.

Entry Filed under: HackLab