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Remote Record Foxtel From Your Phone |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
Digital Services company, Hyro, has provided the technology for FOXTEL to put its electronic program guide onto mobile phones. The software interface requires that a downloadable
application is installed on the user's 3G phone to allow them to browse and search upcoming FOXTEL programs.
The system will also allow
users to request an SMS reminder to be sent to their phone 15
minutes before their selected show is scheduled, and those users who are also subscribers
to the FOXTEL iQ (FOXTEL's personal digital recorder), can remotely
record programs from their mobile phone to their iQ set-top-box at home.
To use the system you can search, select
and with one-touch recording, record your program at
home using your mobile phone like a remote control. The system can be
personalised by the user, as well. Sports fan can save the sports
channels as their Favourite channels and then subsequently call them up
using a single click. This not only makes it easier and faster, but it
cuts down the amount of data that would download if you were viewing
all channels. It also makesviewing the channels easier with the limited screen size of mobiles phones.
You can view the Mobile Guide schedule in
a traditional grid or in
a single channel view, again optimising the visibility on mobile
handsets. But the innovative system also detects the kind of handset it
is
being displayed on and dynamically creates a view that suits that
handset's screen size and shape in order to help handle the vast amount
of schedule data available from FOXTEL. The application also stores a
user's login details, which means that after the initial setup,
accessing
the FOXTEL Mobile Guide is both quick and easy.
"FOXTEL gave us a brief to make
forgetting your favourite show a bad memory of the VCR era for anyone with a 3G
phone," said Hyro Director Wireless & Broadcast, Chris Flintoft.
"Hyro's staff relish challenges like this and coming up with
innovative ways to solve them. As a result, this mobile TV Guide is a first in Australia and
we are exceptionally proud of what we've created.
"Hyro's staff worked very hard
to make this mobile TV Guide as simple to use as possible," Flintoft
said. "It's designed around intuitive scrolling navigation in
conjunction with features such as one click recording and one-click SMS alerts.
Anyone can use the mobile TV Guide," said Chris Flintoft.
FOXTEL's Executive Director of
Content, Product Development and Delivery, Patrick Delany, said: "Hyro
has been instrumental in developing the interface for the FOXTEL Mobile Guide,
which takes our popular FOXTEL Online Guide that provides a full display of the
breadth of programming on the FOXTEL platform up to seven days in advance, and
makes it available to 3G mobile phone users".
The FOXTEL Mobile Guide was written as a Java Platform
Micro Edition application to allow support of the broadest possible range of
handsets. To date it has been tested with over 25 mobile 3G handsets, with the
intention to expand the range of supported handsets each month.
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