Tag Archives: EPG
Carrier IQ and STBs
The furore around Carrier IQ’s diagnostic and usage logging on mobile phones is a salutory lesson for the TV operator industry about logging too much information and not informing the viewer sufficiently. What! I hear you say, usage is tracked on my STB? Of course it is tracked particularly on IPTV and OTT services, as [...]
Forgotten Viewers
With all this talk about 2nd screen and using tablets to access video services, it struck me that in all the headline discussion the biggest viewer population is being ignored for watching content when out and about. This population are all those who have those old and boring laptops and netbooks . It seems as [...]
Anga Cable 2010
I found myself with a spare day in the week due to an interesting approach to public holidays by the Netherlands. With this I decided to take a day trip over to Cologne to take in a show that previously I had always found myself unable to attend – Anga 2010. This show is organised [...]
Electronic Content Guides coming next
The entertainment world has become a complex place compared to 20+ years ago. Back then the UK had 4 channels and the biggest challenge was in ensuring that you had an in house distribution feed for those terrestrial analogue channels, that you had remote control capability and that on at least one TV you had [...]
Attention to detail in EPGs
The world of EPG (Electronic Programme Guides) has moved on since they were originally introduced alongside Digital TV (and earlier if you count Teletext as the earliest example). They have moved from nice to have guides to all the many tens to hundreds of channels and what is on them right now, through to really [...]
IBC2008 3D VOD/EPG
I promised to return and talk about the 3D VOD/EPG demonstrator shown on the Eventis stand. As you can see from the pictures, it offers a very simple effect that is much more effective in person. It does offer a novel way of providing you with information about the movie or giving you a foreground [...]
PVR/DVR – Most important features
I am looking into what are the most important features of PVRs/DVRs. Based on my own experiences, particularly with the recent Freeview Playback upgrade of the Humax 9200 series boxes I can certainly state THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE. 1. When I tell it to record, it must record no matter what. I do not want [...]