Big Screen Blog

Something I’ve been working away at in the background is the Windowsphone 7 client for byRemote for Windows 7 Media Center.  The client runs as a (native?) Silverlight4 based Windowsphone7 application (so can be launched as a first class citizen from the Windowsphone 7 main menu) – and hopefully it will make it’s way to the windowsphone store at some point.

Similarly to the byRemote Silverlight 4 client for Desktops – all metadata displayed is downloaded as compressed/raw data from the byRemote server on your 7MC machine (so it uses a very tiny amount of bandwidth – and caches stuff as needed) – and then the client app then works it’s magic on the uncompressed metadata once it hits the phone.  (so this is not just a browser app like the existing XHTML/IUI clients currently available in byRemote beta).

NB: As I don’t yet actually have one of these devices yet (not even a prototype… <sigh>) – all work is being done on the emulators/windowsphone 7 dev tools provided by Microsoft. (and I’m not yet clear when the devices will actually be available in Australia – but given the October launch in Europe I’m hoping really soon).  My iPhone 3G 2 yr contract expired this month too – so looking forward to making the switch when it’s out.

Anyhow – here’s a bunch of screenshots of it running (on emulator) – with the panorama/pivot based main menu through to some of the drill down pages.  I’ll do a youtube video of it in action soon (when it’s a little more polished – like having backgrounds etc).  Click the pics to get a larger version..

I will aim to release it to the public closer to when some devices are actually on sale… (and closer to when byRemote reaches final version)..

stay tuned….