Vodafone TV is improving its functions, although the company has not yet officially communicated it. The new implementation will improve the experience of the more than 1.5 million subscribers of the television service.
Vodafone TV offers channels in 4K while Alpha Networks and MediaData TV announce today that Vodafone Spain has implemented a solution Real-time Accurate EPG to enhance its features that will allow users to catch up on Vodafone TV channels.
New EPG service
Alpha Networks, provider of software solutions for the video distribution market, and MediaData TV, the Spanish leader in television metadata, have partnered to offer real-time EGP accuracy announcing that Vodafone TV has implemented this feature.
The electronic program guide or EPG (Electronic Program Guide) consists of the programming or information button that appears on television when we are watching a channel. To resolve accuracy issues that EPG can have, Alpha Networks and MediaData TV have come together to propose an innovative solution based on artificial intelligence for obtaining better results in television broadcasts and adjustments in real time. This solution will improve that the EPG always informs us of what is being broadcast at all times without failures or that a program has started and that it still indicates information about the previous one. The new EPG service offers a smarter program guide allowing to improve the experience and interaction of Vodafone TV users.
“We are proud to announce this partnership and are confident that Alpha Networks’ deep technical knowledge and experience in machine learning algorithms applied to video content and program guides, combined and integrated with our sync service, will allow us to significantly expand our business, offering a broader range of qualitative services to operators, ”he says. Carles Farrando, Managing Director of MediaDataTV. For his part Guillaume Devezeaux, CMO at Alpha Networks adds that “We are very proud to partner with Mediadata TV. Thanks to his knowledge of the Spanish market and television experience with operators, we can together propose a highly advanced solution and guarantee the best service to operators ”.
Although Vodafone Spain has not yet made it official that it has implemented the Real-time Accurate EPG solution devised by Alpha Networks and MediaData TV, this new EPG proposal would improve the experience of more than 1.5 million subscribers of the company’s television service, not only to catch up with the programs that they have not been able to see, but also with those that are on air.