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Greece - Weather on Nova (Multichoice Hellas) |
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 Fast to load and very intuitive and simple to use, Nova's Weather service provides graphic weather charts for Greece covering "today" and "tomorrow", plus also offers localised forecasts for the major Greek cities.
The local city forecasts are quickly accessed by pressing OK when the application is in either "today" or "tomorrow" mode.
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NB: Unlike Sky, Canal Satellite other European operators allow channels and developers to use small amounts of box memory to store personalised information in the same way as web cookies. Sky currently prohibits this activity - forcing developers to use a connection to personalise content.
The service is a departure from many of the services in Continental Europe as it has been designed to be revenue generating. Access to detailed forecasts and other premium information is charged at 56 Euro cents per call with the set-top-box making a drop-call connection. It remains to be seen whether other content providers will follow suit.
Other services in the application include national weather charts, traffic information at for both national roads and the Paris regions, Snow Reports for over 70 resorts, plus webcams throughout France updated several times a day. In summer - the snow reports will be replaced by beach reports.
Interestingly, the service stands out from many other Mediahighway applications as the content is effectively being drawn on screen as the viewer waits, background and icons build-up element by element, giving the viewer the impressing that something is happening and they are about to be rewarded.
An interesting approach which may result in viewers complaining less about waiting times!
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