App now your TV guide

Too many TV channels can become too much of a trouble for a viewer.

The information collection job for entertainment or enlightenment itself becomes troublesome. Which channel, what programme, who to star or when? If you are lucky, you may get it by asking someone or looking up the schedule in the newspaper you keep home. But mostly, you lose the track of your favourite show or news programme and end up with the channel-flipping syndrome. And, not to mention, in most of the cases, you miss out on the show you did not want to miss.    

Here comes the good news: an android application is going to take care of your TV troubles. The app, TV Guide Bangladesh, will get programme schedules of dozens of channels on your smart phone. Its reminder option will not allow even a chance to miss your favourite show.        

Already available at Google Play Store, the app will allow users to experience many features including trailers, upcoming festival-specific programmes, customisation and alert on favourite programmes or stars. Interesting features like video streaming, interactive feedback and chatting with stars on demand will be added to the app in the process.

Developed by leading software product and services company DataSoft, the app is to be launched by Minister for Information Hasanul Haque Inu at Hotel Sonargaon today.

DataSoft is all excited about its prospect. "We're confident that users would just love the app," Chief Operating Officer M Manjur Mahmud told The Daily Star yesterday. The app will be free for some time, and around Tk 2 will be charged when payment system is enforced.

The app is now linked with about 25 TV channels. But users will be connected shortly to over one hundred channels that air in Bangladesh.

A shaven-headed information technology expert, Manzur believes the lifestyle app has the potential of becoming a product of the entire population. And even if his hope is half right, 8 crore users will help the app generate a windfall of Tk 16 crore by using it once a day.

Is not it amazing? Let's see how far the app can go.