Family scripture reading with a smart tv can be fun experience. I feel like it focuses more people in the room and can go really well and encourage family scripture study. Also with young kids, it can be a learn to read exercise if done right.
I've done "tv scriptures" many times across the years with
- a macbook connected to the tv
- a pc connected to the tv
- a RPi connected to the tv
- Android mirroring its screen with a Chromecast to a tv
- and recently with a LGTV, webos browser
Dark themes are great! I think it makes reading easier in the evening on a TV.
Scrolling thru long chapters is difficult with a remote control scroll wheel.
The LG WebOS browser does not look good at all for the scriptures. Most of the CSS is not handled correctly. And when zooming in, everything gets squished down to two words per line with huge margins on either side.
Also after zooming in a fair amount, most the the toolbars should have an option to be hidden, or in the gears for hiding the footnotes, there should be a "TV" mode or presentation mode, or something.
Maybe having a dedicated app for the LGTV ecosystem could work, but as of right now, I feel like my TV shines on most other content, except the scriptures.
I'm considering making a mirror of the scriptures site that strips the CSS that is broken in the WebOS browser and makes it readily presentable, since I can't use Stylebot in the lightweight TV web browsers.
And if you highlight a word to help someone see what verse or word they are on, the highlighting tools pop up and cover half the screen or more.
So in summary, I want:
- Scriptures that can be seen from across the room on large screens
- Easier navigation for long chapters with less scrolling involved
- UI cleanup when the zoom gets high
- Testing for a variety of major TV brands browsers
- A enable/disable for the highlight/note toolbar and some other nav bars
- Maybe a dedicated app for LGTV and other smart tvs that have apps besides their web browser tool
Thanks again.