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  • SeaChange powers Quickline multiplatform video with time-shifting & catch-up TV

    MUMBAI: Swiss cable network operator The Quickline Group has raised the bar on personal television excellence with its introduction of Quickline TV, based on an end-to-end suite of integrated software and services from SeaChange International spanning multiplatform content management and delivery, monetization and subscriber experience, including RDK-V-based set-top box software.

    The Quickline Group is one of the leading full-service providers of entertainment and communication in Switzerland. With its scalable and open SeaChange platform, Quickline maintains an optimally efficient, centralized video operation that supports 25 independent regional cable television operators representing approximately 400,000 Swiss households. Quickline is the country’s third-largest TV provider and fourth-largest Internet and telephony provider.

    SeaChange Adrenalin multiscreen television software, integrated with SeaChange’s RDK-based Nucleus set-top software, drives Quickline TV from the back office operation through to TVs, PCs and mobile devices at home and on the go. Quickline TV achieves the pinnacle of truly differentiated personalized TV services with its innovative subscriber profiles, which give multiple viewers on a single household cable subscription the ability to enjoy uniquely curated experiences across devices, presenting thousands of hours of on-demand video, recommendations and time-shifted TV programming to suit an individual’s own content tastes and viewing preferences.

    SeaChange also delivered Quickline TV’s OTT device apps for Android and iOS enjoyment, in addition to leading end-to-end integration of third-party technology providers for content delivery network, video encoding, content security and advanced set-tops, among other components.

    “Quickline is on a mission to produce meaningful innovation that results in Switzerland’s best entertainment and communication experience,” said Quickline Residential MD Yann Steulet. “Quickline TV is the latest success to embody our desire to win and inspire consumers with unsurpassed value every day. Through its meticulous focus on monetising high-quality video everywhere, SeaChange has been instrumental in helping us to elevate multiplatform entertainment to a new level in the Swiss market and for the world at large.”

    “SeaChange is accustomed to collaborating with many customers to define the forefront of innovative entertainment,” said SeaChange CEO Ed Terino. “With Quickline’s groundbreaking achievements in personalisation, ease of enjoyment and RDK implementation, we believe the eyes of the media world will be on Quickline TV as a new ideal for video service provider evolution.”

    SeaChange develops open software solutions that perfect mission-critical performance in multiplatform content management, video back office, advertising and user experience. SeaChange offers proven interfaces to empower service providers and content owners with flexibility to innovate with the widest range of third-party technologies to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving market for video entertainment. SeaChange is deployed across a variety of clients and devices, including solutions developed organically by service providers themselves, best-of-breed client/device solutions, and now with the option of also leveraging a rich set of extensively customizable clients, which provide the front-end for Quickline TV.

  • SeaChange to focus on blended entertainment services at The Cable Show

    SeaChange to focus on blended entertainment services at The Cable Show

    MUMBAI: At The Cable Show which takes place from 10-12 June, Washington, D.C. June, SeaChange International will demonstrate software that it says is giving rise to the global multi-screen television phenomenon and its emerging “blended entertainment services” trend toward incorporating OTT content. SeaChange‘s feature-rich Nitro subscriber experience software will provide the exciting consumer touchpoint for multi-screen demonstrations enabled by SeaChange‘s Adrenalin video platform, Infusion advanced advertising platform and Nucleus Soft Box gateway.

    SeaChange VP strategic marketing Alan Hoff said, “Next week SeaChange will demonstrate the many ways that it is enhancing cable service providers‘ position of strength by reaching every screen with rich and fully monetised subscriber experiences at home and on the go. Multi-screen is paving the way for the new advantage of blended entertainment services, where over-the-top content can be part of the service provider experience so subscribers get more of what they want from a single trusted source.”

    SeaChange will aim to define the evolving multi-screen television experience with:

    gateway-enabled multi-device media sharing throughout the home;
    cloud-based video streaming to iPads and other IP connected devices;
    on-demand services delivered through OTT streaming players;
    content offers and promotions that increase subscriber uptake;
    Video and interactive banner advertising tailored for every screen.
    These advanced capabilities come from open SeaChange software including:

    SeaChange Adrenalin and Nitro – the multi-screen video platform that‘s enabling operators of every size to deliver streaming video experiences and promotional packages to settops, iPads, smartphones, OTT players and other IP connected devices.

    SeaChange Nucleus Soft Box – the open gateway and application framework supporting a variety of apps, content services and guides, and putting service provider branded experiences on every video device at home.

    SeaChange Infusion – the ad platform that targets across television environments (linear, on-demand, Internet) and video devices with second screen app placements as well as pre-rolls, mid-rolls, banners, overlays and click action ads.

  • SeaChange puts multi-screen video experiences center stage at CES

    SeaChange puts multi-screen video experiences center stage at CES

    MUMBAI: SeaChange International, a global multi-screen video software company, has debuted its latest subscriber experiences across iPads, smartphones, PCs and other devices at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

    The new look and feel of the feature-rich Nitro subscriber experience software will provide the consumer front-end for the multi-screen pipeline also enabled by SeaChange’s integrated Adrenalin video platform, Infusion ad platform and Nucleus soft box gateway.

    CES visitors to SeaChange booth can search for movies and TV programmes, sharing and commenting via social media, pausing streams on one device and resuming them on another, among other capabilities. SeaChange will also show how it extensively promotes content and places targeted ads throughout multi-device experiences.

    SeaChange VP of strategic marketing Alan Hoff commented, “We’re excited to show that our integrated software products can enable video service providers to run full featured and fully monetised multi-screen services. Our customers will see that Adrenalin, Infusion, Nitro and Nucleus, working in concert, deliver captivating experiences at home or on the go with the means to creatively market their offerings and grow their advertising business on every consumer video platform.”

    SeaChange Adrenalin is the multi-screen video platform that enables video service providers to manage, monetise and deliver a seamless experience to subscribers across devices. Based on an open service-oriented architecture, this platform incorporates applications focused on business management, content management, monitoring, and client publishers.

    SeaChange Nitro – the multi-screen user experience application that enables video service providers to provide a seamless presentation of linear and on-demand content across mobile, PC, tablet and TV screens. Nitro leverages HTML5 to give subscribers intuitive features and functionality to navigate and manage video content on any screen they choose, including catch-up TV, search, recommendations, bookmarking, TV listings and social media.

    SeaChange’s Nucleus soft box gateway supports the industry’s RDK (Reference Development Kit) software environment and vendor ecosystem, and enables video service providers’ migration from QAM to IP video so they can offer consumers multi-screen media sharing, whole-home DVR, access to online apps and OTT content, smartphone and tablet apps that act as the TV remote control, and much more.

    SeaChange Infusion is the advanced advertising platform that represents the transformation of SeaChange’s television ad technology into an enhanced monetisation platform that unites television and internet ad operations. Infusion enables targeted, multi-screen ad insertion capabilities for pre-, mid- and post-rolls, overlays, banner ads, click-throughs, and companion ads.