Do you need to...

• introduce electronic program guide, EPG, on your TV channels?
• upgrade your current EPG system?
  
• increase your brand presence using tailored EPG?

You need to

• have a cost-effective solution for creating and running EPG, Sofia Backstage® EPG.

The Sofia Backstage® EPG is a scalable and fully customizable solution designed to help professional broadcast companies and digital television operators to create and manage the Electronic Program Guide content (DVB-SI EIT). Sofia EPGs can be set resident in MHP set-top boxes as well as broadcast on MHP-enabled networks

Sofia Backstage® EPG Manager includes:

• Extraction of programming information from incoming transport streams
• Managing and inserting a new EIT configuration matching the operators network
• Extracting programming information from online sources
  
• Support for all DVB-SI Event Information Table descriptors
• Possibility to use extended content for delivering extra information beyond DVB-SI
• Fully customizable user interface
• Conditional Access System integration

Sofia Stage® EPG has a wide range of features:

• MHP EPG engines for set-top box and broadcast use
• Full DVB-SI EIT support
• Support for programming information for up to seven days forward
• Advanced search filters
• Favorite channel lists
• Reminders
• Receive and display extra information from the object carousel or via return channel
• Present and launch other MHP applications

The Graphical User Interface can be fully customized to the needs of the EPG provider:

• The style, layout and navigation logic can be freely selected
• Presentation of different EPG views, e.g. mini-EPG, EPG with scaled video, or full-screen EPG
• Insertion of advertising banners

Conditional Access System integration enables more business:

• Offering subscriptions to new channel packages
• Ordering pay-per-view TV programs
• Enabling near-video-on-demand services

Contact us for more information.