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Editor ©RapidTVNews | 08-09-2011
Netgem has made significant upgrades to its connected home solutions offerings with new technology partnerships enabling multi-screen capabilities and semantic video discovery.
With Jinni, a developer of what is called a ‘taste-and-mood’ based discovery engine for TV shows and movies, Netgem will offer end-users a new way of discovering and choosing content to watch on any connected TV screen within the home, in particular its nCloud.
The Jinni, service is powered by what it calls the Entertainment Genome, containing ‘genes’ that are assigned to each title to describe mood, style, plot, setting and more. New titles are automatically indexed via analysis of user reviews and synopses, using a proprietary natural language processing solution.
Embedded with Netgem’s IPTV middleware, the Jinni’s semantic discovery and recommendation solution was especially designed to assist end-users find VOD content. Operators could well benefit from the ability to be able to push relevant programmes to their subscribers.
Jinni also enables meaning based natural language search for an intuitive user experience, something the makers claim is far superior to the traditional genre content selection usually in place in VOD stores.
With connected social TV platform developer Miso, Netgem will be able to offer social TV features through TV sets, as well as via smartphones, tablets and other IP applications. Miso’s platform integrated with Netgem’s middleware will allow viewers to see who, amongst his or her friends, are watching the same show. It also allows them to read comments posted from an iPhone, iPad or from the Web.
Netgem will integrate Miso with its nCloud software multimedia server to give end-users a complete and integrated Social TV experience. This will automatically synchronise the user’s companion devices with the TV show being viewed to provide further options for interactivity.
Commented Yann Courqueux, Chief Marketing Officer of Netgem, added: “We are striving to find innovative new ways to provide consumers with the highest level of user experience. We believe that the combination of the TV with companion devices is set to redefine what can be done with social media.”
