TV Browsers

User Agents

[paulm]

Hi

Does anybody have useful links to info about TV Browsers . I would like a list of user-agents, details about market share ( particulary in UK if possible ), that kind of thing. There seems to many of these things out their now for games consoles, set top boxes etc . Would just like to keep up to spedd with developments ...

Thanks

[Brett_Tabke]

It's tough, because most of the better ones are lock-stock IE agents. Many of the set-top boxes in the hotels are those playstation ones, or they run proxies that id as ie.

Other than WebTv, you can't tell who is using what.

[msr986]

webTV is now called msnTV. They have a useful site for web developers:

[developer.msntv.com...]

[amznVibe]

from one of my site logs:

Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0)
Mozilla/4.0 WebTV/2.6 (compatible; MSIE 4.0)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;sonyPlayStation2)
Mozilla/4.0 (PS2; PlayStation BB Navigator 1.0) NetFront/3.0
PlayStation/2.0 [ja] (SCPH-30000; SCEI Inc.)

and I know that SEGA and X-BOX put those words into their agent as well

[paulm]

Ok ... Thanks for the playstation info I've not seen that one before, here are some others in case you need them :-

AOL TV :
Mozilla/3.0 NAVIO (11; 13; Philips; PH200; 1; 2.0C36_AOL.0110OPTIK; R2.0.0110_fc9c2)

Cable TV (Telewest, NTL and others) :
Mozilla/3.0 (Liberate DTV 1.1)

Bush Internet TV/ Set top boxes and others:
Mozilla/3.01(compatible; Netbox/3.5 R92; Linux 2.2)
or
Mozilla/3.04 (compatible; NCBrowser/2.35; ANTFresco/2.17; RISC OS-NC 5.13 Laz1UK1309)

[amznVibe]

for what little use it's good for (less than 1% of visitors are TV based) what we have posted so far is the most complete list of TV based user agents I can find on the web (another webmaster world first?)

In theory you could write an easy javascript to look at external screen width, and if its less than 640 (and not 0 or undefined) its either a TV based browser, or a handheld/palm. Then you could write the user agent to a seperate log.

Now just find a site that in theory should get alot of TV visitors, and convince them to run the script for you.
In 90 days you should have a heck of a list.