ATEME And WCI Launch WorldVue® VOD Solution For Hotels

ATEME and World Cinema (WCI) have joined forces to launch the WorldVue® Video-on-Demand (VOD) solution for hotels.

This enables the major hotel chains and hospitality groups in North America to offer the latest in-room guest infotainment VOD services, and to pave the way for further non-linear TV and video services.

ATEME has worked closely with the WCI R&D team to help integrate its advanced Flamingo headend technology into WCI’s customizable WorldVue VOD platform, which is now fully tested and ready for immediate rollout.

Flamingo is ATEME's software-based IPTV head-end technology that securely delivers live and time-shifted TV, VOD and radio content captured from digital, satellite, cable, terrestrial, HDMI, IP or Web sources, to set-top boxes, connected TVs, PCs, tablets or smartphones over an IP-based, coaxial or wireless network.

The integration of Flamingo means the WCI WorldVue platform now relies on future-proof technology to scale its VOD services to thousands of users. It also enables the development of other non-linear services that hotels and their guests might request in the near future – such as pause TV, replay and nPVR.

The Flamingo-powered WorldVue platform will be demonstrated at this year’s Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) in Dallas, TX, from 27th to 30th September, in the WCI Booth (#2005). ATEME VP North America Strategy and Market Development, Dave Brass, will be present at the show to answer questions.

Thibaut Boissot, Solution Marketing Manager for Enterprise Markets for ATEME, said: "We are delighted to have been selected to help WCI deliver on our shared vision for the future of guest infotainment. We are very much looking forward to building a long-term relationship with WCI that helps keep them at the forefront of the sector."

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