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Tank Top TV was a website providing personalized programme listings and recommendations for
online TV
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and movies in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
.
Tank Top TV aggregated listings from BBC iPlayer,
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
,
ITV Player
ITVX (formerly ITV Hub) is a British online video-on-demand service operated by ITV. The service offers predominantly features content from ITV1, as well as ITV Digital channels and some licensed content. The service was known as ITV Player ...
and Demand Five. Users could personalize their listings by removing programmes or categories they are not interested in. It also provided personalized programme recommendations, using a proprietary algorithm based on
collaborative filtering
Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique used by recommender systems.Francesco Ricci and Lior Rokach and Bracha ShapiraIntroduction to Recommender Systems Handbook Recommender Systems Handbook, Springer, 2011, pp. 1-35 Collaborative filtering ...
. The Tank Top Movies site listed films from UK on-demand services including
LoveFilm
LoveFilm was a United Kingdom–based provider of DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany.
Acquired by Amazon.com in 2011, the service had reached 2 million subscribers. It claimed ...
,
BlinkBox
TalkTalk TV Store (formerly blinkbox) was a UK-based transactional (purchase and rental) video-on-demand (VoD) service available on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers, games consoles, tablet computers and Smart TVs. Content is gener ...
,
Now TV
Now most commonly refers
to the present time.
Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:
Organizations
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* National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization
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and iTunes.
Tank Top TV won the Business category of th Enfield Innovation Awards 2012 the "Best Design" category at Hackfest TVHow the first TV Hackfest solved a problem common to us all /ref> in 2012, and was one of the 2013 cohort at the
Wayra
Wayra is a technological innovation hub, which was started in Latin America and Spain in 2011 as an initiative of Telefónica's chief executive in Europe, José María Álvarez-Pallete. Wayra operates through 11 hubs in 10 countries within Telefón ...
London startup accelerator.Wayra London demo day /ref> In 2014 Tank Top TV launched an APITank Top TV lets developers add online TV/movie search and recommendations to their apps /ref> allowing developers to embed TV and movie search and recommendations into devices such as set-top boxes.
See also
*
Recommender system
A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine), is a subclass of information filtering system that provide suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular ...
*
Video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of ...
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
Skype
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