Features on this website

• Extensive search
  • Title - with loose or exact matching
  • Title also has AJAX auto complete
  • Type - TV or radio
  • IMDB rating
• All search results can be viewed as RSS or JSON feeds
• View what's on TV now
• Have what's on now SPOKEN to you see This script
• View what's on radio now
• View all films this week
• TV listings by day
• Forgot your password? - no problem
• User system
  • Login etc
  • Customise your channel list (which channels and order)
  • Add tags to series
  • View your own tags
  • Rate programs
  • Rate series
  • View all rated programs and series
  • View your schedule (based on ratings)
    • Get it in JSON format - makes integrating with your PVR easy (integrate with Elgato EyeTV using mightyv_eyetv.pl)
    • Get it in RSS format
    • Get it in iCal format
    • Alerts about clashes
    • Ability to toggle which program to watch
    • Have your schedule listed on your own website!
  • Your scheduled programs are hi-lighted in red on listings and day views
  • View recommendations! (based on your schedule, BBC genres and tags)
    • Get it in RSS format
    • Get it in iCal format
  • Friends
    • Add friends
    • View what they are and were watching
  • Add comments to a series page
• Most popular tags added by other users

About this project

This project started because of the BBC Backstage competition. Having released their listing in TV-Anytime format the competition was to see who could come up with innovative and useful features based on the data.

This site is therefore supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk

In order to enhance the usefulness of this project we have also used data from the Bleb for non-BBC channel data, unfortunately this is not as rich in meta data (genre/group/series) as the BBC so you will see a marked difference in the search results because of this.

We have done a lot of data cleaning and organising to make this site as useful as possible for you.

Still got questions about mightyv? We've started an IRC channel: irc.perl.org #mightyv Come have a chat.

Ideas for the future

Which may or may not be implemented

• Record anything more than X of my friends are watching
• What films are on starring actor X
• Email alerts on various things
• If enough programs of a type (say 'sports') are marked as 'I never want to watch' - do not show them - even in the day view
• Add BBC url link
• Series discussion forums/mailing lists
• User system improvements
• I must have this, but don't base my recommendations on it!

Who

This site was developed by Leon Brocard and Leo Lapworth, designed by Steve Morgan.

How

This site was developed using perl and specifically

We also used a couple of CPAN modules:

Catalyst                               
Catalyst::View::TT			
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI 
Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm           
Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator        
Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype            
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::FastMmap    
Catalyst::Plugin::Static               
Catalyst::Plugin::SubRequest           
Class::DBI                             
DBD::mysql                             
DBI                                    
Data::ICal::DateTime                   
DateTime                               
DateTime::Duration                     
DateTime::Format::ISO8601              
DateTime::Format::MySQL                
DateTime::Span                         
DateTime::SpanSet                      
Digest::MD5                            
Email::Valid                           
Encode                                 
HTML::Prototype                        
HTML::TagCloud                         
Image::Imlib2                          
JSON                                   
List::MoreUtils                        
LWP::Simple                            
Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate          
Mac::EyeTV                             
Net::DNS                               
SQL::Abstract                          
Search::ContextGraph                   
Template                               
Template::Plugin::Cycle                
Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst         
Text::ASCIITable                       
Text::Tags::Parser                     
XML::RSS