Zodiac Interactive, a developer of software for interactive television, will demonstrate its new Interactive Television 2.0 Movie Guide at this week’s Cable Show ’09.
The Zodiac iTV Movie Guide demonstrates the use of movie data feeds from Macrovision Data Solutions to display detailed movie information that cross-references movies, cast members, genre and other information. Zodiac reported that the guide offers intuitive navigation through movie descriptions, cast and credits and actor information and will even show the user a list of similar movies. All guide content ties back to the “Main Movie” screen, and the “Exit” button always returns the user to a full screen television viewing experience and closes the application.
Zodiac’s Movie Guide runs on top of the company’s PowerUp framework software for tru2way. PowerUp is Zodiac’s tru2way framework, a common platform of open APIs and libraries that allows for a broad range of applications to be developed and work together across multiple tru2way components, including authoring tools, stacks/middleware, set-tops, etc.
The PowerUp framework gives operators easy access to plug-and-play advanced Interactive Television 2.0 services such as advanced guides, EBIF applications and TC widgets, including local restaurant searching, click-to-call, games, photo sharing, local guides and more.
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