Technicolor introduced MediaNavi, a multi-screen content platform designed to enable more seamless content search and discovery. It is being demoed at its CES booth in Central Hall.
The cross-platform/cross-operating system is aimed at network service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers, who would have the ability to customize MediaNavi for their devices and services. The technology will be available for trial in the spring.
MediaNavi can be personalized, with customers creating a profile in order to assist them in finding content. The system includes the customized My Channel, as well as a live channel guide and personal content library. Technicolor said it intends to offer support for UltraViolet.
MediaNavi is essentially an app that could run on a tablet or other handheld device, and if they choose, users could simultaneously control MediaNavi on the portable device while simultaneously watching content on a TV. The app is also tied to social networks such as Facebook.
Supported content apps and services will be dependent on business models of the network service provider or CE manufacturers that is offering the MediaNavi capabilities to its customers.
MediaNavi was developed under the code name “Spectrum” by a team of roughly 80 Technicolor employees in Burbank.