The Spark receiver software provides a sophisticated YouTube integration that allows users to easily access and filter YouTube videos. Key features include country selection, date filtering, resolution options, genre browsing, and sorting by popularity metrics. Videos can be searched for, viewed, and effortlessly downloaded and stored locally. The intuitive interface and powerful search functionality make Spark software a leading platform for watching YouTube on a television.

1. FEATURE Spark Receiver Software
The
Wonderful
World of
Spark
Part 1:
YouTube
• Perfect receiver software integration
• Excellent filter function, for example, just HD videos
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• Multiple built-in virtual keyboards
• Sophisticated search function
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• Easy Saving of video clips
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2. FEATURE Spark Receiver Software
This Makes it Fun
in the Internet the limits
between TV reception via
satellite, cable, terrestrial
to Watch YouTube
antenna and also the Inter-
net are becoming less and
less distinct. It‘s no surprise
With Your Receiver
then that many TV viewers
also access YouTube con-
tent since the days of pixi-
Thomas Haring lated low resolution videos
are over - HD is the magical
We‘ve reported a number Spark sets new standards vides numerous elegant ad- word of the future! But who
of times already in TELE-sat- for digital receiver software ditional functions and extra wants to sit in front of a PC
ellite about receivers from in that it‘s not limited to just features. monitor and watch YouTube
different manufacturers the solid, sophisticated basic videos when instead you
that included the innovative structure that operates the It‘s exactly these addition- can watch them in top notch
Spark software from Fulan. device, but rather also pro- al features - those that con- HD quality on that LCD big
1 screen TV you have in your
living room? Fulan had this
in mind too when they in-
tegrated YouTube into their
Spark receiver software.
When you start the You-
Tube app, the user is imme-
diately greeted with the best
recommended videos from
around the world. But, as a
user in Germany, would I be
interested in those videos
that are currently popular in
the USA? Or the other way
around, would someone in
the USA want to know what
the top videos from Korea or
Taiwan are?
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vert a digital receiver into
It‘s exactly for this rea-
a multimedia machine with
son that Fulan integrated
total Internet integration -
three different options into
that are the subject of our
the green function button on
new series of articles that
their remote control: First of
will introduce you to these
all, you can choose a specific
special Spark features indi-
country from a list that in-
vidually in the upcoming is-
cludes Worldwide, Australia,
sues of TELE-satellite.
Brazil, Canada, France, Ger-
We‘re going to start things many, The United Kingdom,
off with an Internet service Holland, Hong Kong Ireland,
that over the past several Italy, Japan, Mexico, New
3
years has boomed and is Zealand, Poland, Russia,
becoming increasingly more South Korea, Spain, Taiwan
and more popular: YouTube. and the USA. The user can
Thanks to larger bandwidths therefore limit the search or
display results from one of
1. The YouTube app can be these countries.
found under the Networking
heading in the Spark software‘s The second option allows
Main Menu
the user to select how old
2. The YouTube app is just one
of the many practical apps the displayed video clips
offered by the Spark software. should be. The results can
3. The YouTube App start page be limited to clips from to-
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day only, from the current mal, Movies Comedy, Movies
week, the current month or Documentation, Movies Ac-
you can choose to show all tion, Movies Classics, Mov-
available videos. With just ies Foreign, Movies Horror,
the push of one button the Movies Drama, Movies Fam-
user can eliminate old clips ily, Movies Shorts, Movies
or those clips that are no SciFi, Movies Thriller as well
longer interesting resulting as Trailers. In this way it‘s
in search results that are not much easier and quicker to
full of unnecessary trash. find the content you‘re look-
ing for!
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If all of these choices are
still not enough, you can
search for new videos ac-
cording on the tastes of oth-
ers. The blue function button
allows you to display video
clips based on the following
criteria: highest rated, top
favorites, top viewed, most
talked about, most linked
and most commented. Of
course, all of these choices
can be used in conjunction
with the search limitations
provided by the green func-
tion button with regard to
country, date and resolution.
6 The third option is espe- We also liked the ability
cially interesting for those to display those videos that
who have an HD compat- are currently being viewed
ible plasma, LCD or LED TV: by others. If you‘re cur-
you can limit the displayed rently watching a recap of
video clips to those that are an NBA basketball game,
in 640x480 or 1280x720 for- you can, with the push of a
mat so that with the push of single button, call up dozens
one button on the remote of additional videos that are
control you can fine tune connected to that game or
the search to ignore non-HD to the NBA in general. This
content. We really liked this actually makes it fun to take
function in our tests; trying advantage of the unbeliev-
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to watch a low resolution able number of YouTube vid-
video on a 50“ LCD TV isn‘t eos that are available.
all that pleasing to the eye.
But what would YouTube
In addition to the ability to be without a sophisticated
take advantage of the three search function? Fulan put
fine tuning search options quite a bit of work in this
just mentioned above, the part of it as well. They inte-
Spark software also supports grated the ability to search
the capability to access vid- the seemingly endless You-
eo clips from specific groups Tube archives based on spe-
including Movies, Cars, Mu- cific keywords. For this you
4. Country selection Spain sic, Animals, Sports, Travel, can use a fully fledged OSD
5. Limiting the displayed videos to those from the USA, Short Movies, Videoblog, keyboard or you can switch
from this week and HD-only Games, Comedy, People, over to a mobile telephone
6. The different groups of clips can be called up using News, Entertainment, Edu- style text entry format. Fu-
the yellow function button
cation, HowTo, Nonprofit, lan even thought of those
7. The user can also orient themselves to the tastes of
other YouTube users Tech, Movies_anime_ani- users that don‘t utilize Latin
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4. 8 9 15 16
10 8. Top viewed, most 13. Search for „Madonna“ 17
discussed or most 14. Mobile telephone text-
commented videos can style keyboard
easily be displayed
15. Even Cyrillic
9. With the push of just characters are no
one button the Spark problem for the Spark
software can show those software
clips that are currently
being viewed by others 16. Search results for
„Madonna“
10. The History function
shows the previously 17. Search results for
accessed clips „Madonna“ limited to
USA and HD content
11. YouTube clips can be
marked for download with 18. The same search for
just a single push of a Korea returns completely
button different results
12. The Spark software 19. The Spark software
downloads YouTube clips can store YouTube videos
from the Internet in the effortlessly onto local
blink of an eye and stores storage devices
them on your preferred 20. Playback of locally
storage device stored YouTube content
11 12 18 19
13 14 20
tion if you wanted to. Fulan trially. If you link the stor-
addressed this problem in age device with a PC, you
their Spark software and can edit the video clips to
has provided the capabil- your heart‘s desire. We ap-
ity to store any of your fa- preciated that the clips are
vorite YouTube videos onto stored in MOV format; you
a local storage device. The can use nearly any playback
download process was actu- software without any further
ally quite fast; we were then conversion.
able to access the video
clips stored on our USB stick The array of practical
outside of the YouTube app functions in the YouTube app
characters; they‘ve provided search function works very on date, country and resolu- If you watch YouTube vid- through the data manager of are further enhanced by the highlight the fact that almost lan‘s software programmers
additional keyboards that efficiently and delivers the tion. What you end up with eos on a PC, you might miss our Spark compatible receiv- History function. It can be no other manufacturer has really went all out in pro-
come integrated with special desired results in the blink of are perfect results that in the ability to store them on er. It handled the YouTube used to recall clips that have integrated YouTube into their viding the user with a well-
characters so that, for exam- an eye. Of course, the green every way represent the de- the PC‘s hard drive so that clips just like any other re- already been viewed with digital receiver software so rounded software package
ple, a Cyrillic keyboard could function button can be used sires and requirements of you could play them back cordings that were received the push of just one button. professionally and in such for YouTube reception in the
be presented on the TV. The to limit these results based the user. without an Internet connec- via satellite, cable or terres- In conclusion we want to a sophisticated manner. Fu- living room.
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