DumbDisplays: Most of us got a dumb display at home, a dumb display is just another CRT/old LCD display without any implementation of web connectivity or media center connected to it. Most of the new TV displays got a chip built in mostly known as a SmartTV,. What I describe is jumping to the level of a SmartTV — when you have got only a DumbDisplay.

Big Data is just another buzzword… until.. you actually implement it.. Bigdata is any service that aggregates data (whether it be Video/Audio/Text based etc’), stores and dumps it to any of the different media or platforms. Most of the bigdata on the web offer companies a API to their data,. Making the BigData mine-able — via 3rd party software.

Middle Devices – SmartTV: A middle device that is software enabled, and got inport of a web connection, and outport to the display… The connectivity to BigData engines such as FaceBook Graph Search, or Searching Twitter Database, or GPlus Search etc’ — makes the whole strength of the process described.

Of course buying a SettopBox could be an idea, yet I am suggesting a cheap and immediate alternative. What I’ll describe below is only one suggesting, out of many, of boosting your life and accessability to the web.

Steps to go forward, and leap into the era of availability, and web access;

Steps making your TV Smarter:
1. Connect dumb displays to the web, via a local internet connection.

2. Setting requirements to connect old monitors/displays/tvs to the web;
There are verity of ways to do that;

• Extend existing devices capabilities… for example;
  – use a desktop/laptop computer, that got a port such as rca or hdmi, and defined the target display as just another monitor in your system.
  – use a dongle/mobile device (for example an old ipod, or simmilar type of device) that got the required connectors, and got the required software which will project the web to the screen.
• Define the type of the middle device connection for example wifi or wired.

3. Pick a proper software which will be;
– configurable on the one hand..
– and on the other hand won’t require any immediate interaction while presenting the data..

Checkout stevie.com which enable you to do so cross platform on any device whether it be iOS, Android or windows devices.
Proper applications will enable you to interact with the ‘dumb’ middle device.. via mobile or with a remote services.

Stevie takes the BigData being mined on the miscellaneous databases which are accessible on the web, and just stream the data to your dumgdisplay screen. Which is virtually creating a personalized channel, which can always be reconfigured according your desires.

BigData associated with the any one of the web social Engines, can create a private channel that will present ‘Your Friends Data’. or even more personally ‘Your Family Data’.

When talking about Data and Channels, I mean it can output, (according to the right software, and quries) — A channel containing personalized;

• video clips / Audio tracks.
• pictures slide show.
• Text news feeds.
• Or any mix of any of these data types