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MaxCE Suite™
Overview

 

Based around the NeMAD multimedia Core, AVPE processing engine and SaVaGe User Interface kit, MaxCE suite™ of Media applications feature sophisticated, highly optimized and feature rich application designs enabling development of many of todays networked(or otherwise) consumer electronic devices. The design principles followed in the MaxCE suite™ ensures applications which are feature rich, extremely robust and user friendly. MaxCE suite™ features applications including:

 

MaxCE PoGu™ - Electronic Program Guide
MaxCE VODya™ - Video On Demand Suite
MaxCE PaPerView™ - Pay Per View Application Suite
MaxCE DiViR™ - Digital Video Recorder Application Suite
MaxCE iMoojik™ - Digital Music Applications Suite
MaxCE JetSet™ - Common CE Settings Configuration Suite
MaxCE 01Protexion™ - Digital Rights Management Infrastructure

MaxCE PoGu™ - electronic Program Guide

The MaxCE PoGu™ is a extremely responsive and feature-rich Electronic Program Guide (EPG) application that manages viewer interaction during channel and program selection. Features include instantaneous response time on channel tune, fast scroll program navigation, UI presentation flexibility (Grid, Zap, Single channel), and support for PPV, Reminders, Filters, Search, Favorites and much more.

The MaxCE PoGu™application architecture provides the optional ability of working directly with graphics hardware contexts on select hardware platforms. This ensures an amazingly responsive application.

 

Features & Benefits

■ Supports Multiple Languages, Newer languages can be added very easily!
■ Based on the SaVaGe™ architecture - resulting in extremely fast graphics processing, rendering and response times. Also eliminates problems with progressive page loading and blanking.
■ Implements caching, indexing and compression of EPG data resulting in responsive guide navigation and instantaneous searches. The EPG maintains and manages data on the STB to thus maximize application performance
■ Supports configuration of favorite programs, reminders, recording schedules guide view filters, parental control settings, sorting and program data search
■ Configuration EPG presentation options: possibilities include listbased single channel program presentation view, to a now and next Zap guide, to a multi-day grid guide
■ Extremely easy to integrate.

 

MaxCE VODya™ - Video On Demand Suite
MaxCE VoDya™ (Video On Demand) application can be seamlessly integrated with third-party VOD streaming servers to provide customer with video content on demand. MaxCE VoDya™ application features provide a consumer business models including subscription and pay-as-you-go. MaxCE VoDya™ also provides enhanced application features including full trick Mode support, Multiple search parameters, parental locks, content control and content screening, scaled and full-screen movie preview.

 

The Modular architecture of MaxCE VoDya™ Video on Demand is demonstrated on the Texas Instruments DaVinci STB / DVEVM reference Architecture - which also operates on the NeMAD playback and stream management engine, and
also features applications like MaxCE Electronic Program guide - MaxCE PoGu™.

Features & Benefits:
■ Supports Multiple Languages, Newer languages can be added very easily!
■ Support for full movie playback trick modes
■ Movie preview (scaled or full screen)
■ Movie purchase via variable business models including subscription, pay-as-you-go, etc.
■ Search and filter movies by configurable parameters i.e rating, title, genre, actor
■ Supports a skinning - allowing to meet HTML UI standard, but without the performance penalties
■ Includes sample application UIs to shortcut the design cycle

 

MaxCE PaPerView™ - Pay Per View Application Suite
MaxCE PaPerView™ is an easy-to-use application for offering pay-per-view services on IPTV Set Top Box hardware. MaxCE PaPerView™ Fully integrated into the Electronic Program Guide, subscribers can search, explore and order pay per view events easily. Built over the NeMAD Application Platform, MaxCE PaPerView™ and can be easily customized to suit your design needs.

Features & Benefits:
■ Supports Multiple Languages, Newer languages can be added very easily!
■ Complete integration with the MaxCE PoGu™ Electronic Program Guide
■ Full transactional support for operators to retain full operational control
■ Pay Per View Channel filters for subscribers to make selection easy support for Pay Per View Packages
■ Search by name and genre including of Pay Per View events

MaxCE DiViR™ - Digital Video Recorder Application Suite
MaxCE DVR allows IPTV subscribers the flexibility to watch TV on their own schedule. MaxCE DiViR™offers advanced recording and scheduling features which are tightly integrated with the MaxCE PoGu™ EPG application.

Features & Benefits:
■ Pause live TV
■ Instant Replays
■ Schedule recurring auto-recordings, Recording schedule conflict resolution.
■ Program management and expiry
■ Tight integration with EPG and parental control

 

MaxCE iMoojik™ - Digital Music Applications suite
MaxCE iMoojik™ allow subscribers to enjoy digital music service within their IPTV offering. With a seamless integration on Streaming media networks such as Shoutcast, Icecast, LastFM users can tune into stations of choice to listen to an huge choice of selections!

Features & Benefits:
■ Incorporates award winning BitStream™ advanced streaming architecture for high quality and jitter free playback
■ Integrated with Shoutcast, IceCast, and lastFM.
■ Music meta-data displayed on screen, including what's playing now, album art, titles, albums and artist info, lyrics
■ Management of favorite stations
■ Search for radio stations by genre,audio quality, bit rate.
■ Filtering of music channels on the MaxCE PoGu™

 

MaxCE JetSet™ - Common CE Settings Configuration suite
MaxCE JetSet™ consists of applications for configuring and/or viewing Set-Top Box and User settings. The types of settings and display parameters that the user can control and/or view will depend on the capabilities of the STB or what the STB Vendor wishes to determine.

Example settings that could be managed/viewable include video, audio and system information, and user settings such as reminders, favorites, parental PINs. MaxCE JetSet™ is pre-built for the Media++ Application Platform. Featuring
the modular architecture, MaxCE JetSet can easily be integrated into custom requirements.

Features & Benefits:
■ Comprehensive set of display settings and controls including video and audio set up, personalization options, and channel banner visual settings
■ 708B-ready to meet US market requirements; completely configurable UI for Closed Captioning configuration
■ User setup logic, including user name and PIN to be used for favorites selection and transaction management
■ Application UIs created with common mark-up and scripting languages are compiled into a small, fast, binary runtime giving you the visual benefit of an HTML UI without any of the performance penalties
■ Includes sample application UIs to shortcut the design cycle

 

MaxCE 01Protexion™ - Content DRM mechanism and Software Infrastructure.

 

MaxCE 01Protexion™ consists of operating system and application infrastructure aimed at protecting data which is licensed over an electronic media such as a digital download. By incorporating 01Protexio™ into consumer electronic devices, content vendors can rest assured that their content is absolutely safe when delivered to 01Protexion™ enabled hardware devices.

 

Features & Benefits:

■ Seamless operation: Does not change the delivered media. DRM mechanism is handled by Operating systems and application components.
■ Provides mechanisms for secure and encrypted content download from a remote server.
■ At the Customer premise equipment, zero-copy mechanisms are implemented which disallow copying of copyrighted data to alternate media.