Bright House Networks Launches New On-Screen Guide that Helps Customers Navigate Cable Programming Easier, More Efficiently
array of sophisticated, new, user-friendly features for use by its growing
number of digital cable subscribers throughout central
The new Bright House Networks Digital Navigator(TM) now makes searching
through the company’s hundreds of channels of digital and HD programming
easier, faster and more efficient. The navigator features easy-to-read
screens, a consolidated access menu and a helpful guide to what’s-on-now
programming sorted by categories.
The new navigator makes virtually anything a Bright House Networks
customer wants to find accessible via the digital remote’s “A,” “B” or “C”
buttons. Improved DVR menus in the navigator give customers greater options as
they wish to record and save their favorite programming.
The “A” button gives a viewer a new look at the Access Menu that offers
Movies On Demand, Premiums On Demand, Free On Demand, High Definition TV
channels and customer favorites including news, weather and children
categories. The “B” button allows a viewer to search current and upcoming
programming by category, title and rating. The “C” button is like an Internet
browser’s back button and returns the digital remote to its most recent menus.
“The Digital Navigator also includes improved controls that allow parents
more abilities to block content from their children’s view by content
advisory, such as language and violence,” said Buz Nesbit, president of Bright
House Networks Indiana. “And now, a keyboard search allows viewers to use
their digital remote to type in the name of the show they want to watch and
find it quickly.”
And on-screen Caller ID on TV shows viewers who’s calling their home while
they’re watching TV. All Bright House Networks digital video and home phone
subscribers have Caller ID on TV for free, which also allows them to review
past and missed calls without interruption of their programming.
Aside from the launch of the Digital Navigator, two other new video
features will be coming soon to Bright House Networks digital subscribers.
Quick Clips(TM) is also coming soon on Digital Navigator, available
exclusively to Bright House Networks digital customers. Quick Clips allows
viewers to check out short-form videos related to the channel they’re watching
without having to leave the channel, along with quick access to other related
channels. For example, a viewer watching CNN could check out video clips on
recent news items or tune to CNN HD or CNN On Demand quickly and easily. Quick
Clips will be available for several popular channels on the Bright House
Networks system including The Weather Channel, Comedy Central, MTV, CNN, CNBC,
Showtime and Fox Reality. New networks equipped with Quick Clips are scheduled
to be available throughout 2009.
Also coming soon is Start Over(TM), another new free service available
exclusively from Bright House Networks. Start Over enables digital subscribers
to restart live TV programming from the beginning with the simple touch of a
button on their digital remote. Start Over also allows viewers to pause a show
for up to five minutes, rewind a program while it’s on and restart the same
program multiple times during its broadcast time.
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SOURCE Bright House Networks