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The alert engine fires only when a favorite-team or favorite-player game is within 5 points with under 3 minutes left — a high-bar threshold designed to feel earned, not spammy. The notification arrives on Harry's lock screen with enough context (down 3, 2:11 left) to make a one-tap decision.

QR-pair is the single biggest TV auth improvement we can make — typing email + password on an Apple TV remote is the most-cited friction in connected-TV streaming. The fallback code (WBKG-7421) is there for shared / family TVs where the user's phone may not be available. The footer chip is the explicit single-device disclosure — the constraint becomes part of the brand contract.

The phone notification updated when the user opened LP near a paired Apple TV. The pre-checked toggle "Resume Heat vs Bulls" is the trick — one tap on a primary CTA sends an authenticated, personalized, mid-game stream to the TV. Without the pre-check, this is a 3-step flow; with it, it's one step.

Phone shows a sending state; the TV simultaneously transitions from QR pairing to a personalized splash. The greeting on the TV is the same "Welcome back, Harry" beat we use on phone and desktop — consistent across surfaces, reinforcing that this is one product, not five separate apps.

The TV runs the broadcast with light overlays — Reaction Pulse, Win Probability, score pill — sized for 10-foot viewing. The phone becomes the companion strip: now-playing label, mini-scoreboard, mute, ★ Bam stat line, and the all-important "Take back" action that flips the active stream from TV to phone. No competing playback — the constraint is preserved. Phone above the strip is free to browse other content (highlights, news) without interrupting the broadcast.

Heat vs Bulls is playing in the LP tab (middle), but Harry has switched to Gmail (active tab, left of Slack). The desktop player publishes a "tab inactive" state via the Page-Visibility API. From this moment on, the server is filtering broadcast events through trigger rules — only a high-signal moment (favorite-player score, score change ≥6 pts in 3 min, peak Reaction Pulse) will earn a phone push.

The notification is informational and metadata-only. It does not start a phone stream (Standard rule), it just brings Harry back to the desktop tab where the stream is already running. The single-line subtext at the bottom is the future-state hint: if Harry wanted to move the stream to phone, he could — but the default behavior preserves the live session he already has.

When the LP tab regains focus, a banner overlays the live broadcast (which is still playing). It tells Harry exactly what he missed — Bam dunk · Heat 102-99 · Q4 1:54 — and offers an inline 10-second replay served from the missed-moment buffer. The banner auto-dismisses after 8 seconds; if Harry taps Replay, the banner converts into a picture-in-picture clip (next stage).

The 10-second replay clip plays in a corner picture-in-picture; the live broadcast continues full-frame behind it. When the replay ends or Harry dismisses it, he's already back in the live game with nothing skipped. This is the design promise: you can leave, you can come back, you don't lose the game.