Method and system for displaying IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) live channels

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), in particular to a method and system for navigating an electronic program guide (EPG), and provides a method for displaying IPTV live channels. A page display module is used for displaying a channel list; and after a cursor remains on a certain channel for a first period of time, a video playing window of the page display module plays the current program of the channel. The method is characterized in that: when the cursor remains on a certain channel for a second period of time, a data acquisition module acquires the review program information of the channel from the background, and the page display module displays the review program information. On the other hand, the invention provides a system for displaying IPTV live channels. By adopting the live channel displaying method and system, live channels can be played without switching a page and a clickable review program guide is displayed for a user, so that the more human-friendly EPG with more rich contents is provided for the user and better user experience can be achieved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of IPTV (Internet Television), in particular to an electronic program guide navigation method and system thereof. Background technique [0002] The EPG (Electronic Program Guide) in the IPTV field is mostly used for TV Internet browsing; but the performance of the embedded browser limits the display characteristics of the TV, which makes it different from the pages on the computer. Live broadcasting is the same function as cable TV channel broadcasting. Watching back is menu time shifting. Users can select previously played channel content and programs through the EPG menu. [0003] The current IPTV platform and digital TV broadcasting platform mainly adopt the following two schemes when displaying and playing the live broadcast and playback of channels: [0004] One is to provide a live channel list and a review channel list respectively. The user clicks on the channel he wants to watch in the list to enter the chan...

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[0005] The other is to display the channel list and play the selected channel at the same time on one page, but it cannot be displayed and click the playback program of the corresponding channel

[0006] The above two solutions have their own advantages and disadvantages. The first solution is cumbersome to operate and is not user-friendly. It cannot quickly switch between channels, nor can you see the playback program list information while viewing the channel list; the second solution does not Corresponding playback program information entry

Both live broadcast and playback are one of the most important services in IPTV and digital TV. Among the existing IPTV platforms and digital TV platforms, none of them can display the channel page list on one page at the same time. live channel, and at the same time provide users with the entrance to watch the program list of the channel

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