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Your Streaming Service on LG webOS
LG sells televisions in enormous numbers, and every one of them runs webOS. Vodlix gives you a native app for those sets, carrying your brand and your catalogue, sharing one back end with every other screen you ship.
The Set Somebody Already Owns
Nobody buys a television in order to install your app, which is exactly why being on the platform matters. A viewer who finds your service already waiting on the set they bought last year will try it. One who has to buy a stick, plug it in and find an input first, mostly will not. LG is among the largest television makers in the world and webOS runs on all of it, so an app there reaches a substantial audience with no hardware in the way. It sits alongside the rest of your TV apps on one platform and one catalogue.
Every row, tile and control shows clearly where you are, because on a television the cursor is your eyes. Navigation is built around the remote rather than adapted from a page meant for a mouse.
Your logo, your colours, your catalogue. There is nothing on the screen to tell a viewer whose platform is underneath, which is the whole reason to run white label in the first place.
Vodlix builds the app, publishes it and keeps it current as webOS moves. Adding LG to your line up adds another audience rather than another codebase for your team to own.
Every Genre a Column Away
The home screen answers what is on tonight. Genres answer what somebody is in the mood for, which is a different question and needs a different screen. Pick a genre from the list and the grid beside it fills immediately, so a viewer moves from Action to Documentary without losing their place or waiting for a page. The genres are your own taxonomy rather than a fixed set, so the categories a viewer sees are the ones you actually programme against.
Then Order It However You Like
A few thousand titles need more than one way in. The full grid can be reordered by published date, release year, title or views, ascending or descending, without leaving the page. Newest first suits a service that adds weekly, most viewed suits one leaning on a back catalogue, and a viewer can flip between them in two presses. The rows above come from the same content lists that drive your web storefront, so the living room reflects whatever you merchandised this morning.
Live Channels on the Same Set
A television is where live still feels natural, so your channels sit in the webOS app beside the on demand catalogue rather than in a separate place. The channel list carries numbers, logos and category tabs, with search for operators running hundreds of them, and each channel shows what it supports so a viewer knows where catch up is available before they tune in. Channels arrive with their programme guide, which is what turns a list of streams into something people browse. Run it alongside IPTV and live streaming and the whole operation sits on one back end.
One Place to Set Them All Up
Smart television apps are configured together rather than one console per manufacturer. Branding, artwork and behaviour for LG sit beside Samsung and the rest, so adding a platform is a configuration step instead of another system for somebody to learn.
A Shared Screen, One Platform Behind It
The set in the living room is the one screen the whole household uses, which makes profiles more useful here than anywhere else. Vodlix asks who is watching before anything else, keeps each person's recommendations and watch history apart, and applies a maturity level per profile so a children account never surfaces something it should not. A profile can carry a PIN as well, so the adult one stays adult even when the remote does not. It is the same profile system your web and mobile viewers already use.
LG completes the set rather than starting a new one. Your Android TV app, Apple TV app, Roku channel and Samsung Tizen app all read the same catalogue, the same subscriber accounts and the same content lists as webOS does. Publish a title once and it appears on all of them. Subscriptions and entitlements are recognised without a second setup, live channels arrive with their programme guide, and playback position follows the viewer between the sofa and the phone.
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