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lethargic_manThe first project I worked on with my current employer, an electronic programme guide for Freeview Australia, has just gone live:
My boss, Liz, had put together a basic no-frills grid EPG before I started; the rest of the front end (i.e. the computer code that runs on the set-top box as opposed to the processes feeding it data over the airwaves) was all done by me, bar only the one-touch record and parental control facilities, which were outside the remit of the MHEG.
Personally, I think the hard part of the job was Liz's construction of the basic grid EPG and population of it from the broadcast data, as MHEG is not really suited for complex data processing. (Frankly, using MHEG to construct an EPG initially struck me as insane, but we did it anyway!) However she thinks that was easy and the hard part was what I did. Go figure.
My boss, Liz, had put together a basic no-frills grid EPG before I started; the rest of the front end (i.e. the computer code that runs on the set-top box as opposed to the processes feeding it data over the airwaves) was all done by me, bar only the one-touch record and parental control facilities, which were outside the remit of the MHEG.
Personally, I think the hard part of the job was Liz's construction of the basic grid EPG and population of it from the broadcast data, as MHEG is not really suited for complex data processing. (Frankly, using MHEG to construct an EPG initially struck me as insane, but we did it anyway!) However she thinks that was easy and the hard part was what I did. Go figure.
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Date: 2010-07-05 05:20 pm (UTC)How do you feel about Project Canvas?
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Date: 2010-07-05 07:33 pm (UTC)(I haven't given it a lot of thought. Also, it can be difficult to really get what a project is about before it launches, if you're not part of it. I remember repeatedly failing to get what the iMP (Interactive Media Player) was about, and keeping getting it mixed up with other projects. Of course, since it went live, under the revised name of I-Player, I've had no difficulty getting it at all.)