Amazin'TV

DOTSCREEN offers Amazin'TV, a homegrown, full-featured, customizable User Interface, available in HbbTV OpApp. Amazin'TV is an innovative user interface solution that provides all features expected by users in a big screen experience today, and that offers a fluid, intuitive user-centric design, tailored to LIVE TV experiences, and multi-screen, available on all internet-connected devices.

Description

DOTSCREEN's Amazin'TV UI brings innovation and engagement value to LIVE TV users in their watching experience:

- the UI was designed to enhance Live TV experience: on the Amazin'TV UI, users can watch their Live programs, and browse channel and content listings within a fast and fluid navigation. They can instantly record, pause, or rewind their Live TV programs, and jump from Live to Replay within seconds.
- Amazin'TV is also a feature-rich UI that offers all expected TV-watching features, such as a Portal with immediate access to featured content, replay, VOD items, TV guide, a TV Mosaic with an overview of what is playing now, next and previously on all available channels, a Smart EPG giving useful glimpses on all recent, upcoming or past programs in a visual grid, universal Search functions through Voice and keyboard activated searches, easy and smooth navigation from VOD to live content, and classic Network Personal Video Recorder (nPVR), to Timeshift and Startover functions.
- Amazin'TV is fully customizable for customers. The portal categories, program pages and highlights areas are designed to be modular and easily changeable upon customer needs to make it the UI they need throughout time. The product's deep-link-based, native development architecture allows for entire customization, without the constraints of template-based framework nor code changing.
- Amazin'TV was conceived out of in-depth viewer focus group studies. It addresses all common viewer usages (remote control), and it was designed to take legacy viewing patterns into consideration.
- Amazin'TV is capable of integrating to all sorts of customer backends (live streams, analytics, monitoring, advertising data, etc).

Impact

Amazin'TV is an innovation at the heart of any wanted big screen experience today, and at the service of any entertainment fan in the world. It is purely user-centric, completely thought to respond to both current and future needs in the TV experience. Completely customizable for broadcasters and entertainment providers to engage with their fans, adapted to today's trends and fashionable designs, and reliable. The new UI solution was first developed in an Android TV version for Wibox, using HTML 5 for Andorra Telecom, and in the HBBTV OpApp version most recently. The release to Andorra Telecom's market was a deep success in terms of development , product performance, and UX, leading Andorra Telecom themselves to quote it as "supporting the innovative User Experience" they wished to provide to their customers. Since its availability in any environment including recent HbbTV Op-App, Amazin'TV is now compatible to any screen and device and the solution has proven its success amongst the industry with recent nomination in the CSI and the European Readers Streaming Media Awards.