Pilot operation for digital terrestrial television and interactive MHP applacations
Styrian QuickText - Regional information via interactive TV

In cooperation with ORF, TW1 supplied !TV4GRAZ with one hour of panorama images from Styria every morning. A total of 10 locations were chosen for these regional weather panoramas.


Tailored solution for regional content

In order to integrate an interactive element into this special weather show, a quick info service, also called „Styrian QuickText“ (SteirerQuickText) was developed. In this feature, a navigation bar with color-coded categories is opened automatically at the top edge of the screen. The categories are News (red), Traffic & Transport (green), Events (yellow) and Weather (blue). By pressing the corresponding colored button on the remote, the viewer can open the respective headline, which summmarizes the latest report from that category in a one-line title on the screen. Interested viewers can press the OK button to open the full text of the report. This „text basket“ is then superimposed over the screen. When the OK button is pressed again, the text is closed and the viewer can read the next report in that genre, open another category in the top navigation bar, or continue to watch the weather panorama.