Media Gallery TV — View and Shop your Photos on Interactive Digital Television Sabine Thieme Ansgar Scherp Melanie Albrecht, Susanne Boll CeWe Color AG Oldenburg R&D Institute for Department of Computing Science Oldenburg, Germany Computer Science Tools and Systems University of Oldenburg
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[email protected] ABSTRACT MHP-based applications pick up the users where they usu- In this paper, we present the Media Gallery, a MHP-based ally spend a lot of time anyway: in front of the TV. In interactive multimedia application on digital TV. This ap- cooperation with CeWe Color [2], Europe’s largest photo- plication allows customers to view and order their digital finisher, we developed the interactive MHP application Me- photos and to order physical prints and fun products from dia Gallery. The Media Gallery allows the customers to these digital photos directly from TV. The Media Gallery upload and view their digital photos and to order physi- opens a new distribution channel and market opportunity cal prints and fun products, like t-shirts and mugs, directly for the photo finisher and a platform to comfortably view from the TV. With this application, the photo-finisher CeWe and order their digital images directly on their TV. Color achieves a new distribution channel and market oppor- tunity arising from the technology of interactive applications Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.5.1 [Informa- on digital TV. tion Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems; H.5.2 [User Interfaces]: Screen design; H.5.2 [User 2.