Tele Columbus will add maxdome to its TV platform in mid-2016
Unterföhring/Berlin, October 15, 2015. ProSiebenSat.1 Group today announced that it entered into a cooperation agreement with Tele Columbus Group, the third largest German cable network operator, for Video on Demand (VoD) services. Starting from mid-2016, maxdome subscription VoD will become an important layer of Tele Columbus' planned Advanced TV platform.
With its planned Advanced TV platform, Tele Columbus will enhance the customer experience by further innovative features such as interactive, time-shift and multi-screen TV usage. By the integration of maxdome to its platform, Tele Columbus customers will have access to movies, series and documentaries out of Germany's largest online video library. The launch is planned for mid 2016, and the content can then be accessed via the new cable receivers provided by Tele Columbus.
About maxdome
A ProSiebenSat.1 Group company, maxdome is Germany's largest online video library and offers a wide variety of feature films, series, comedy shows, documentaries, and special children's programming - a total of more than 60,000 titles of the best entertainment. maxdome is now integrated on nearly all new hybrid TVs. This gives users the ability to access content directly in their living room on their own television. Users can continue to access content via PCs and laptops or via mobile devices. Videos can be downloaded from maxdome individually in the store or by subscription in the maxdome monthly package. As with a DVD, programs can be viewed as often as desired.
About Tele Columbus
The SDAX listed Tele Columbus Group is one of Germany's largest cable network operators. Via its origins - individual regional cable network operators that were merged into Tele Columbus - the company dates back to 1972. About 2.8 million connected households in Germany use Tele Columbus' 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
Press contact:
Tele Columbus
Hannes Lindhuber
Direktor Unternehmenskommunikation
Phone +49 (30) 3388 4170
presse@telecolumbus.de
www.telecolumbus.de