05.12.2016
Tele Columbus AG DE000TCAG172
Tele Columbus presents advanceTV, the Television of the Future
DGAP-Media / 05.12.2016 / 13:20
PRESS RELEASE
Leapfrog new Home Video Entertainment System:
Tele Columbus presents advanceTV, the Television of the Future
- Multiscreen-capable live TV and VOD platform with universal, intuitive
user interface
- Premium EPG with content search across all content sources
- Time-shifted television and recording function with playback on mobile
devices
- Integrated smart app portal
- 4K-capable set-top-box with four integrated tuners
Berlin, December 5, 2016. Tele Columbus, Germany's third-largest cable
operator, offers its customers with advanceTV an entertainment system
providing any content anytime on the TV set and on mobile devices in the
household in best quality. In conjunction with a top cable receiver and an
intuitive user interface setting new benchmarks, advanceTV combines linear
television, video content from the Internet, personal recordings, the
maxdome flat-rate and Hollywood blockbusters on-demand with further smart
TV apps on a unique platform. advanceTV will be available on the cable
networks of Tele Columbus from January 16, 2017.
Television faces a radical change: The non-linear video consumption through
digital platforms is the new trend. The usage of video libraries and
streaming services providing the programme of choice at the touch of a
button rises. However, while viewers benefit from new freedom in the
variety of offers, they are confronted with a complexity of services
difficult to use and intransparent in their costs. Exactly for this reason,
Tele Columbus has developed advanceTV as a trendsetting all-in-one
solution, simplifying and enhancing the consumption of entertainment and
thereby creating a more convenient customer experience.
The cable operator's new TV entertainment platform is a universal system
integrating linear television, online video content, maxdome and an online
movie library under a single, clear user interface. Administering several
user accounts, keeping track of different invoicing schemes, and usage
barriers due to the breaks in the operation logistics of individual
provider systems will be a thing of the past with advanceTV. "The new TV
and entertainment platform advanceTV underlines our innovation power
through which we redefine TV entertainment on cable networks", said Ronny
Verhelst, CEO of Tele Columbus Group, ahead of the platform launch in
Berlin. "With advanceTV, we have reached our goal: the fusion of today's
completely fragmented TV and video universe into a new unified entity."
A new dimension of possibilities
advanceTV enters the market to set new benchmarks. For example, with an
electronic programme guide (EPG) informing comprehensively, in detail and
intelligently about programme content - not just regarding the currently
watched programme, but covering all programmes. In addition, the integrated
search function provides also search results across all maxdome content and
the whole advanceTV video library of on-demand blockbusters. This way, the
viewer gets an overview of all available programme highlights after switch-
on. With one click, the preferred linear TV programme can be recorded and
stored on the optional 1TB hard-drive of the advanceTV box. The currently
running programme can also be paused and continued at a later stage.
With the free-of-charge advanceTV app for iOS and Android, a great part of
the content - including personal recordings - is seamlessly accessible on
tablets and smartphones. The set-top-box contains four tuners for reception
and recoding of programmes; up to two devices can be served with streams by
the advanceTV box at the same time. The high-quality advanceTV box is also
prepared for reception of future 4K content. For the television of a new
dimension, advanceTV is a universal, simple and integrated solution making
all other TV and video services obsolete.
From January 16, 2017, Tele Columbus customers can enjoy the most popular
free-TV and pay-TV channels, the latest Hollywood blockbusters on-demand
(TVOD) from the advanceTV video library as well as their favourite series
and movies in subscription (SVOD) with the bundle product HD maxdome plus
or the additional option maxdome flat. The films in the advanceTV video
library are provided almost at the same time as their DVD/Blu-ray release.
Video-on-demand content acquired through advanceTV is even accessible
outside the home via any Internet connection such as public hotspots or
mobile networks.
Simply clever: The smart app Portal
With advanceTV, TV and Internet grow together in a user-friendly way.
Through the smart app portal on the advanced TV box, which is offered in
cooperation with the app platform provider Metrological, users can access
many useful and entertaining apps from the areas of lifestyle, weather,
news, music or science. At the start of advanceTV, Vimeo, Flickr,
DailyMotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, wetter.com, Deezer, TuneIn, Deutsche
Welle and others will be part of the line-up.
A revolutionary user experience
The straightforward navigation with a functionality integrating TV,
recordings and on-demand content runs alongside smooth menu scrolling and
amazingly fast channel switching. Particularly the simple, intuitive
navigation concept leads to a user experience never seen before. This is
the result of the collaboration with development partner Espial,
responsible for the user interface and video integration, and Humax, the
manufacturer of the advanceTV box hardware. advanceTV is technologically
based on flexible open standards such as HTML 5 and an RDK software
environment. This technical design enables continuous updates and
guarantees a future-proof system. At the same time, advanceTV offers the
perspective of being adaptable to a variety of usage scenarios including
IPTV environments in order to be well prepared for future developments.
"Universal and future-proof with plenty of new functions for more
interconnection and comfort, that's the television of a new dimension Tele
Columbus will show its customers from January 2017 with advanceTV", Lars
Lanske, responsible project manager of Tele Columbus Group, explained today
at the first preview in Berlin. Stefan Beberweil, Chief Marketing Officer,
added: "With the revolutionary advanceTV platform, Tele Columbus offers its
customers the best out of the digital entertainment universe in an
unmatched convenient user experience - and thus evolves from a pure cable
operator into a new provider of modern home entertainment anywhere and
anytime."
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About Tele Columbus
The SDAX listed Tele Columbus Group is Germany's third largest cable
network operator. Via its origins - individual regional cable network
operators that were merged into Tele Columbus - the company dates back to
1972. Today, about 3.6 million connected households in Germany are served
by Tele Columbus, primacom, pepcom, Deutsche Telekabel, Martens und KMS
with TV signals and, increasingly, digital broadcast packages, Internet and
voice connections provided via high-performance broadband cable. As a
national provider with a regional focus and a partner of the housing
industry, the Group is present throughout its core markets Berlin,
Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as in numerous key
regions in western Germany. In tune with current demand trends, the company
is upgrading its networks in a hybrid fibre-optic infrastructure for
superfast Internet connections of up to several hundred megabits per second
with the state-of-the-art Internet transmission standard DOCSIS 3.0. The
broadband cable caters to the entire range of innovative media applications
from analogous, digital and high-definition TV to high-speed Internet and
voice connections to telemetry services, tenant portals and interactive
services. Beyond merely transmitting signals, Tele Columbus uses its own
product platform in order to actively increase the programme offering and
to develop additional services. Via its company HL komm, Tele Columbus also
delivers powerful connections and network services to business customers.
Disclaimer
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of the date of this document.
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such as Normalized EBITDA and Capex, and operating measures, such as RGUs,
ARPU, and Unique Subscribers calculations. These non-GAAP financial and
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In addition, this release contains pro forma financials. Our pro forma
financials have been prepared for illustrative purposes only. They are
based on the assumption that the acquisitions of primacom and pepcom had
occurred on 1 January 2015. Because of their nature, our pro forma
financials address a hypothetical situation and, therefore, do not
represent our actual results of operations. It is not necessarily
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Contact:
Hannes Lindhuber
Phone +49 (30) 3388 4170
Fax +49 (30) 3388 9 1999
[email protected]
www.telecolumbus.com
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Language: English
Company: Tele Columbus AG
Goslarer Ufer 39
10589 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 3388 4177
Fax: +49 (0)30 3388 9 1999
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.telecolumbus.de
ISIN: DE000TCAG172
WKN: TCAG17
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich,
Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
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