May 4, 2010

Recommendations enhancements, improved flags, and genre filtering

We have just deployed a new build of the content discovery platform with the following changes:

Enhancements:

  • Improved formatting for show details to display cast members in a list
  • Improved formatting for TV flags, such as Subtitles and HD
  • Now support filtering by genre on “my channels” as well as “all channels”
  • Support for shows to be “also available in HD” on other channels
  • Enhanced recommendations
    • New rule: always recommend the next episode in a series
    • New option to restrict recommendations to a specific time period, for example “recommendations for primetime”
    • Support for displaying prices next to VoD items
    • Support regionalisation in clips component
    • Small screen enhancements
      • Support for show rating
      • Support for cross broadcaster recommendations
      • Support for email reminders from the rated shows component

Bug fixes:

  • Add the ability to highlight the episode title in the search results
  • No longer incorrectly log contact types for single sign on.
  • Accessible component now respects tvgShowLinks
  • Now support tvgShowDetailsDiv from the picks component
  • Now support multiple sources for show tagging in a recommendations engine set