A Personal Tv Receiver with Storage and Retrieval Capabilities

The convergence era has begun raising the need for intelligent assistance in the large amount of multimedia content already available in the home environment. In this paper we present a Personal Video Recorder that exploits meta-data obtained from a service provider or locally generated, to provide users with profile-based filtering and innovative user-friendly video browsing modalities. Its user interface concepts enable ways of interacting with recorded video archives that are far beyond the traditional linear and passive way of watching television.