August 12, 2009

New build: Recommendations Engine and Web EPG enhancements

We have just deployed a new release of the TV Genius content discovery platform which includes the following:

  • recommendations Engine
    • Support for show rating
    • Can now force a specific number of shows to be recommended
    • Hybrid TV recommendations across shows, user ratings, and most popular
  • web epg Listings enhancements
    • Can now include any HTML for in grid promotion
    • Support for completely customisable days links
  • Other Web EPG enhancements:
    • Favourite channels component now adds new channels at the bottom rather than the top
    • Now include digital EPG channels numbers in accessible component
    • Improved show selection functionality in accessible component
    • New RSS feeds for online video and IPTV
    • Brand new picks component for the Web EPG
  • Mobile and IPTV EPG support for catch up TV
  • Improved in caching and performance optimisation for all Web EPG, mobile epg, and IPTV services
  • Completely reworked interactive documentation for the Web EPG components
  • Reduced the size of tvg_ajax.js file