YouTube and Netflix have more information about the DIAL protocol. Through DIAL of his “second screen” applications to another device with a display to detect, such as an hdtv. Then on the paired device an application to be started.
The DIAL protocol can, for example, by a Netflix or YouTube app on a smartphone be used to the corresponding client app on a hdtv with Smart TV to start. So, the user can on their phone or tablet’s video content to select and then almost immediately to the tv to view.
DIAL can be seen as a response to the AirPlay protocol from Apple, but there are a number of differences. Thus, it offers DIAL no mirror mode in which the image on a tablet or smartphone on the tv is displayed. The protocol provides, however, unlike AirPlay, however, the possibility to a user on the Smart TV platform to indicate that the required application is not installed then this to show in the corresponding application store. Also would DIAL to be able to develop web applications to open on the ‘first screen’.
For the use of DIAL be no license fee is requested and the protocol is open, but a first-screen apps have to be registered. Some Google TV devices can already handle with the DIAL protocol, as well as some tv models 2012 Samsung and LG, reports GigaOM. In addition, would Netflix have indicated that in the coming months, more hardware on the market will appear that can handle the protocol, including likely equipment of Sony. In addition, some contentpartijen, such as the BBC, indicated brood in the DIAL, while to Google the protocol in its Chrome browser wants to process.
