Tivus, Inc. Debuts Tivus e-SmarTV(TM) HD IPTV for the Hotel Industry
06 June 2011 - 10:44PM
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Tivus, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: TIVU), a provider of turnkey
high-definition Internet-protocol television (HD IPTV) in-room
entertainment technology to the hotel and hospitality industry,
today debuted the first Company branded Tivus e-SmarTV™ interactive
HD IPTV set.
Tivus e-SmarTV is the first-of-its-kind in the industry and
represents a giant-leap forward. Its robust interactive
capabilities enable such firsts as ad-revenue sharing
opportunities, programming control, and on-the-fly hotel
promotional control. The interactive Tivus e-SmarTV opens up an
enormous amount of entertainment, business, and revenue generating
possibilities never before available to the industry.
Tivus e-SmarTV is a technically advanced, interactive flat-panel
high-definition television that connects directly into a hotel's
existing coaxial or CAT 5/6 cabling, making it the first
plug-and-play TV in the industry with such an advanced level of
technological integration of functionality.
"Tivus designed this attractive, first-of-its-kind interactive
HD IPTV TV unit, bearing the Tivus brand name prominently on the
front, as a multidimensional hotel entertainment platform with many
integrated features including the set-top box, secure wireless
internet, viewer accessible connections, and pure IP-based
connectivity," commented Shiva Prakash, Tivus' chief executive
officer.
In November 2010, the Company announced its HD IPTV supply
agreement with European electronics giant Vestel Group, of Manisa,
Turkey, through Vestel's Master North America Distributor, CVS
International Ltd. With EUR 3.7 billion in annual sales, Vestel's
European market share accounts for 21% of the total TV market, 10%
of the total LCD TV market, 25% of the total digital set-top box
market, and 10% of the total household appliance market.
"While the deployment of our successful end-user technology is
underway, progress of our other installations continue in earnest
as Tivus leads the way innovating the first purely IP interactive
HD IPTV solution to the hotel and hospitality industry," Prakash
concluded.
About Tivus, Inc. Tivus, Inc. is a
technology entertainment services company providing internet-based
TV and Cable programming, interactive game content, and goods &
services to the hotel/hospitality industry. Tivus' unique HD IPTV
system is a complete hotel entertainment platform that, for the
first time in the industry, generates previously untapped income
for the hotel through ad-revenue sharing. For more information,
please visit www.tivus.com and www.tivusconnect.com, or check us
out on www.facebook.com/TivusConnect or on Twitter @TivusInc.
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Media Relations: Steven Haag (832) 413-6206
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