Comigo Set to Overhaul Smart TV Experience
In IBC 2012, Comigo will demonstrate how its advanced solution can help operators, broadcasters and other media companies achieve competitive advantage and explore new revenue opportunities.
Yarkona, Israel(06 Sep 2012)
Comigo today announced it will use its presence at IBC 2012 to demonstrate how its advanced solution can facilitate operators, broadcasters and media companies to achieve competitive advantage in a dynamic market and explore new revenue opportunities.
Breathing life into any TV, smartphone and tablet, Comigo’s smart TV platform offers ground-breaking personalization capabilities and interactive social features. It includes an hybrid Android-based smart Set-Top-Box (STB) accompanied with a customized dual-sided remote control from Philips Home Control, which has both IR and RF capabilities. Comigo also provides client applications for both iOS and Android-based smartphones and tablets, web interface for operators and broadcasters, and back-end servers to support the platform's features and capabilities.
Comigo multi-screen solution ensures a consistent TV viewing experience across devices and enables viewers to stream content flawlessly from one device to another. Incorporating an intuitive and user-friendly interface, it has a best-in-breed personalized smart TV features, which enable users to access their favourite content, whether it is live TV (IPTV and DTT channels), web based content, VOD or local content. Ability to create individual watch-lists, share recommendations and interact with friends while watching TV are some of the defining attributes of Comigo’s smart TV platform.
Operators, broadcasters and other media companies can access new revenue streams from Comigo revolutionary content-sensitive applications and advertisement which are distributed as a layer on top of the broadcasted stream. Since Comigo offers a personalized experience, by capturing user insights, TV viewing habits, social behavior and preferences, operators and broadcasters can generate micro-targeted campaigns and promote these virally by using the user’s social network.
“Our comprehensive smart TV platform provides a brilliant personalized TV experience” said Dov Moran, Founder and CEO, Comigo “We want to use our presence at IBC to show operators and broadcasters why Comigo’s market- leading solution has an edge that will enable them to get head of the competition, extend their customer base and explore new revenue opportunities.”
Comigo will be exhibiting at Stand B.15, Hall 3, IBC, RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam
About Comigo
Comigo is the creator of a feature-rich smart TV platform. Comigo's solution considerably enhances the TV experience by uniquely extending viewing across all types of handheld devices, with revolutionary personal viewing experience and social interactive capabilities.
As part of its solution, Comigo offers content-sensitive applications and advertisement as a platform on top of the broadcasted stream, all to enrich the user experience and increase his engagement with the viewed content and with his friends. Comigo opens new revenue opportunities for operators, broadcasters and other media companies.
Founded by Dov Moran, Comigo enables operators, broadcasters and other media companies to reach a leadership position in the smart TV arena. A highly successful technology entrepreneur and the inventor of the USB flash drive, Dov was also Founder & CEO of msystems, which was acquired by SanDisk for $1.6 billion, and modu, which invented the concept of modular phones (its patents were acquired by Google).