NAGRA Guides & Applications

The end user experience has become increasingly important to service providers in attracting and retaining customers. Having a simple and easy to use interface is a key differentiator for service providers, enabling consumer to find the content they want to watch when and where they want to watch it.

A service provider needs to provide a consistent experience across devices to simplify activities for consumers and to re-enforce their brand.

NAGRA provides a range of reference guides and applications across different devices to provide service providers with both off-the-shelf and customized user experiences. They are the result on over 5 years research and development into user interface design. NAGRA’s guide solutions provide universal interfaces that integrate traditional broadcast television with all locally stored media, internet media and on demand content. They are tailored for different devices and device capabilities; They can be personalized by end consumers and customized by service providers.

Customizable

NAGRA has a range of reference cross device guides and applications that can be easily customized by service providers to match their requirements.

Scalable

Even on the most restricted hardware platforms NAGRA has strived to provide the richest user interfaces possible. NAGRA continues to evolve the graphics capabilities of the client system software, with the aim to enable user interface developers to create consistent interfaces across a diverse range of set-top boxes and other client devices without being limited to the lowest common denominator.

Pre-Integrated

NAGRA Guides and Applications are available for televisions with the OpenTV middleware and for PC, tablets, smartphones and other devices with the NAGRA Media Player. NAGRA guides and applications are pre-integrated with the NAGRA Federated Headend, including the NAGRA Media Service Delivery Platform (SDP).

Framework Based

The NAGRA Guides and Applications are built on a JavaScript application development framework (SDK), which even further simplifies application development and customization. The framework encapsulates complex business logic and UI objects in reusable libraries. The framework is open to modification by developers to alter its functionality and extend it features.

Award Winning Reference Designs

The NAGRA Guides and Applications are based on multiple award winning reference designs. These reference designs can be deployed “as is” for a fast time to market or can be customized to meet a service provider’s specific requirements.