TV Sites

  • A TV Site is a website designed for displaying content on a TV instead of a PC. Unlike interactive TV services of the past, TV Sites are quick, easy and relatively low cost to build and maintain, and can be used as interactive content destinations to reach millions of viewers across multiple TV networks.

    Traditionally, the launch of interactive services has been difficult due to the complexity of building specific interactive TV services for each TV network. They were expensive to build using broadcast TV technologies and relied on delivering interactive content across an expensive broadcast channel.

    TV Sites, by contrast, are adaptations of websites, and share the low cost authoring and maintenance costs of web and mobile internet publishing models. They deliver the interactive content to viewers using a low cost broadband connection to the TV device.

    A TV Site is created by repurposing existing web content, assets and infrastructure specifically for the 'big screen' TV experience, eliminating the need for a PC, mouse or keyboard.

    Miniweb's Interactive Service Platform manages the differences between various types of TV device making sure that a TV Site deployed via the Miniweb Platform will work across the widest range of homes.

  • Building a TV Site

    There are a number of ways to build your TV Site depending on the functionality and resource required. Miniweb provides a Developer Training Programme as well as guidance documents and Site templates to help TV Sites to be built ‘in-house’. Alternatively, Miniweb has a number of accredited partners able to build and deploy TV Sites to suit a particular business need.

    Click on the Community tab at the top of the page to gain access to our developer support community with a list of recommended partners and a range of free resources to build and launch your TV Site including:

    • TV Site Development Tools: PC Emulator and Visual Editor
    • Templates and documentation
    • Developer programme and forums
    • Integration APIs: Customer Data Retrieval and Micro-payments
    • TV Site Control: Free TV Site Registration, Online Site Management and Automated testing and deployment
    • Reporting and statistics