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Globalplay, new IPTV OTT TV system for Colombia

Colombia. With the presence of prominent representatives of the  cable television industry and Colombian producers, the Internet Protocol Television Over-The-Top (IPTV-OTT) system was launched last Thursday, July 27, in the country, which allows access to the linear television offer from a box connected to the internet.

Use a decoder device or television receiver, in English Set-Top Box (STB) or Globalbox as globalplay has wanted to call it, the company that provides this new type of service. Such a device allows access to the traditional linear TV commercial grid that the affiliate chooses and pays for, Video on Demand (VoD), navigation on the analog TV as well as a Smart TV and even access to content platforms such as Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.

The system that integrates word processing tools, calculation table and more than a hundred free Android applications, allows an old  tube TV to become a smart TV and use the typical applications  of a cell phone or a computer. This is the novelty of this tool that comes to massify the use of the internet together with traditional television on a single connection, to this device you can add accessories such as keyboard and mouse, making it a potential Workstation.

The product that will initially be offered as subscription television with the typical ingredients as a contract, hopes can be sold freely with the regulatory flexibility projected by the State, within the framework of a bill regarding these new technologies. We hope it will be presented next week at the initiative of MINTIC to the Congress of the Republic. 

- Publicidad -

Globalbox is a promising new option entering the  changing  world of television, bombarded from all sides in the era of technological convergence.

Text written by Luis Pinto, commercial technical advisor of the magazine TVyVideo+Radio.

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