Movial Next Generation Set-top Box 3D Demonstration

Movial is a mobile Linux pioneer with extensive experience in user experience design. The company has been realizing state-of-the-art usability on mobile Linux since 2001, and has long-term experience in streamlined development of compelling Linux-based devices, applications and services.

Movial designed and implemented a next generation set-top box 3D demonstration that delivers amazing graphics and a fully connected user experience. The company used the Qt framework to develop the demo’s highly usable 3D user interface that leverages the power of the ARM Mali Graphics processor and ST-Ericsson’s U8500 hardware platform to provide stunning graphics and effects. The Qt WebKit Integration powers Movial IXS Browser that brought rich Internet capabilities and connected use cases to the demonstration.

Movial IXS Browser provides an intuitive and smooth browsing experience and its simple but uncompromising user interface is quick and easy to deploy across various form factors and input methods, making it an ideal choice for set-top box implementations. The browser’s clear and visually appealing user interface is very easy to use with a remote control and suits perfectly for viewing the Internet on a TV screen.

The next generation set-top box 3D demonstration offers highly satisfactory and innovative user experiences by enabling users to browse the Web, use media applications and watch multiple videos from their own personalized video wall. The set-top box demo was showcased first time in CES 2010.

Movial Next Generation Set-top Box demonstration, including Movial IXS browser. Click screenshots to view in full size.

Why Qt?

Qt offered a widely-known cross-platform base to work with
Implementing next generation hardware accelerated 2D/3D user interface benefited from Qt's ability to integrate with raw OpenGL content for best performance and visual impact
Qt's highly customizable widgets, CSS-based theming and QGraphicsView system offered significant benefits to application development whenever fully accelerated 3D content was not needed
Qt's auxiliary cross-platform abstractions of streaming media and Internet- and Web-technologies sped up deployment of content-rich applications

Prominent Qt Features Used

Qt WebKit browser engine for complete and compatible web rendering
Qt UI components for easy UI development
QGLWidget for integrating hardware accelerated 2D/3D graphics to Qt framework

The Qt Advantage

Having a world class browser engine pre-integrated with the Qt framework enables getting standards-compliant Web rendering to Qt applications in a blink of an eye, and lets designers and developers to concentrate on usability issues for creation of intuitive and smooth browsing experiences
Qt reduces the development time with its cross-platform abstractions and helper classes, even for 3D user interfaces

“Qt reduces the development time with its cross-platform abstractions and helper classes which extend well even to the more demanding and exacting world of 3D user interfaces. We are going to continue using and contributing to Qt and improving its suitability and performance as the first-class base for our varied and challenging projects that often break traditional boundaries.”

Tommi Leino, Technology Manager for Movial Creative Technologies

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Why Qt?

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