Progress bars show newly starting shows and your already selected show progress
Double tap the screen any time to kill advert, red return button means you are watching the SECOND fallback channen, blue account means logged in
Manually Force Logo Selection
Suggests what's on now
Smart infobar shows next programme data. Smart broadcast logo mask viewing window (top left) shows excellent grab of logo in bottom right corner
TV MODE - Smart Channels Menu puts recents and favorites up top in light blue. Selecting for X shows what's on next. You can cycle through ABCX by pressing left of the green-dash island items which occur every 7 items in the list
After every successful adbreak blocked the infobar shows how long it lasted.
The vertical Smart Timer Menu lets you see all current and upcoming programmes in your ABCX buckets in a linear timescale. Select your upcoming watch path lazily while you watch, you can choose the point that interrupts the current show or wait for it to finish. Helpful tips can be turned off in settings.
The timer icon opens up the main menu lists integration for programme timers (see in first slide) and what's on next suggestions.
During advert channel switch over you might see better content you wish to keep playing instead. The logo mask (seen in top left window viewer) can be reset/rebuilt by holding the KEEP button down if it was not a good grab.
At any time while watching double tap the screen or press OKAY button on TV to kill the advert and be temporarily moved to another stream
InstaMute is best for loud parts of shows, explosions or car chases that you only want to temporarily mute, add chunks of 15 seconds to the timeout for precise control by pressing or swiping right (phone/touch mode has finer adjustments)
When the system is <95% confident of advert in progress it will notify the user, giving them a 8 seconds to revert by pressing UP, swiping UP, or Volume UP which cancels the pending ad block
we start to blur after a few seconds without user intervention when ad is probably detected then we change streams.
After the advert is over we show you how much time has been saved in total this session.
Special feature: Ink Blot Out Mode hides the logo in a notch style to return full atmospheric experience back to the movie unmarred by the bright broadcast logo. Configurable in settings.
Occasionally Ink blot drops away if system is having trouble grabbing onto logo. At this point you must manually request respite from logo matching to stop it from triggering an advert event in error. You can do this by swiping up the middle of the screen or pressing UP or VOL_UP. Accidents usually due to bright sky/snow.
The standard menu arranges all channels in your M3U playlist into the normal natural groups. You can easly hide non-favourites in a group.
Cooking shows are overbright by default so we can apply a video filter to make them less washed out. They have to make bright shows to make ads less jarring but we are not concerned with that.
Same image with custom color filter applied. Classic mode returns vitality to matte shows that try to mute the colors too much.
Tennis Filter #2 hue shifts colors to make the ball easier to see on certain surfaces and times of day.
