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  • Kylo and Loop Advance Viewing Web Video on TV

    The Wall Street Journal More consumers are watching TV shows over the Internet using computers hooked up to their sets. But this can be a hassle. The major Web browsers were made for close-up use, so they have icons, toolbars and menus that can be too small to see from an optimal TV-viewing distance. And they are meant to be used with mouses, or… more »

  • Kylo Is a Big-Screen, TV-Optimized Web Browser

    LIfeHacker.com Kylo is a Mozilla-based web browser optimized for surfing the web on your HDTV from the comfort of your couch. Check out our screenshot tour to see it in all its 10-foot display glory.

    Kylo was designed to complement the nifty gyroscopic mouse—produced by Kylo’s parent company—called The Loop. While The Loop is pretty… more »

  • Hillcrest Labs Introduces Kylo™: The Web Browser for Television

    DEMO Spring 2010 event, Hillcrest Labs launched the Kylo™ browser – a new Web browser for TV. Developed for the millions of households that connect their PCs or Macs to the TV, Kylo lets users visit any site on the Web with a browser that was specifically designed to be viewed from a distance in the family room, living room, or… more »

  • Hillcrest Labs Pairs Kylo “TV Browser” with Motion-Sensing Loop Pointer

    Gizmodo - Remember the Loop? It was an accelerometer-equipped remote for media centers that arrived last June. It worked pretty well. Now the company behind it, Hillcrest Labs, is going to try its hand at a web browser called Kylo—for television!

    The main reason for Kylo’s existence is to work with—and presumably sell—its $100… more »

  • Hillcrest Labs Builds TV-friendly Kylo Browser for its Loop Pointer

    Engadget - In what is becoming a depressingly familiar tale, Hillcrest Labs has just released a free new browser based on Mozilla with a TV-friendly UI designed for control from the couch, but despite these friendly and standards-compliant underpinnings, Hulu has already managed to block the Kylo browser, mere hours out of the gate. Apparently… more »

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