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Reporters' Roundtable: The couch potato, version 2

Not content to feed you just one screen of entertainment, content and app developers are working on apps that make your tablet or smartphone a companion screen to the main event. Join our discussion on the rise of the "second screen."

Rafe Needleman Former Editor at Large

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Rafe Needleman

March 2, 2012 12:48 p.m. PT

Ole Lutjens, chief creative officer and co-founder of MX
Jeremy Toeman, chief product officer, Dijit

Watch this: Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 113: Couch Potato 2.0

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Discussion points
Doesn't anyone just watch TV anymore? Why do we need a "second screen?

What should be on it?

Sports stats?
Director's commentaries?
Program Guides?
A remote control?
Games?
Social networking?

Is social TV a fad?

Discuss Yahoo's acquisition of IntoNow, and competing products.

How important is ACR--automatic content recognition?

Second screen for other media, like games?

Role of TV manufacturers?

Is this just another gimmick, like 3D?

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