Over the Top Video has lots of press and interest among tech enthusiats, but many regular consumers don’t want to jump in and buy a set top box without dipping their toe in the water. Testing out video to your flatscreen from a regular laptop or tower system with a free browser from Hillcrest Labs is a great interim step.

Browsers like Firefox or IE look great from laptop distance, but they are very hard to maneuver on a large screen. Hillcrest Labs has a designed a special accelerometer based controller and a special browser optimized for large screens.

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