Movie Jukebox ft. YAMJ - Demo

Get a sneak peek demo of the Movie Jukebox ft. YAMJ at our exhibitions currently going on in Singapore (SITEX 2009) and Netherlands (HME 2009). In Singapore, the AC Ryan booth has been running the demo since today (Saturday), while in Netherlands we’ll be running the demo tomorrow (Sunday).

Ever since the launch of Playon!HD way back in June 2009, Movie Jukebox was one of the most requested feature. What a movie jukebox does is show you picture thumbnails of movies, when you select it, you see a short description and simply press again to play. This is a more pictorial view of movies compared to a browser list – well, more fun!

When deciding how to add this function, we managed to hook up with the YAMJ Team. For those who do not yet know who/what is YAMJ… YAMJ is short for Yet Another Movie Jukebox. A clever piece of program running on your computer designed to search your harddisk for movies and find the relevant movie photos and information from the internet, automatically. Started as a small project, it has grown to become a favorite Movie Jukebox program, with a strong reputation and a solid team. The YAMJ project is opensource and more development is still going on.

What do we mean “hooked up with the YAMJ Team”? Instead of re-coding our own Movie Jukebox, why not work with the YAMJ guys! It cuts double work, supports opensource community, and gives Playon!HD users a great application. It’s a no-brainer win-win-win partnership. That’s what we did, and the YAMJ guys are more than supportive! Thanks again. And by working with the YAMJ Team, Playon!HD users can enjoy more improvements and more developments from the YAMJ Team that has made YAMJ such a success!

After exchanging some information and some coding, we are happy to say the Movie Jukebox is almost ready. So what this means is that you would run YAMJ on your computer which searches your Playon!HD for movie files, gathers pictures and information from the internet and puts them into your Playon!HD, automatically. Each time you add movies, simply run YAMJ again on your computer and your Playon!HD Movie Jukebox will be updated. cool eh? Thank the YAMJ guys.

At the exhibitions, we’ve prepared 12 movie trailers as a demonstration, so you can see the Movie Jukebox working on Playon!HD. Can’t wait to have it? We ask for a bit of patience while our programmers finish up the final parts. We appreciate your understanding, thanks for the support.

C’mon down to our exhibitions and check out the Movie Jukebox ft. YAMJ demo. Watch out for its release soon, coming to a Playon!HD near you!