Airwave sister company, Techlive International, provide international channels and movie & television content to the hospitality and healthcare sectors. Partnering with leading movie studios, Techlive deliver content to 5 million guests in 50+ countries each year. Creators of the cloud-based movie APP, Airtime, Techlive is a global leader in the delivery of hospitality exclusive content.
INTERCONTINENTAL LYON
Sitting proudly on the banks of the River Rhône, a sweeping 280 metre façade offers a breathtaking prelude to guests of the Hotel Dieu, Intercontinental Lyon. Designed by Pantheon architect, Jacques-Germain, Hotel Dieu spent most of its life serving as the city’s maternity hospital (1 in 3 Lyonnais were born here), before a long restoration turned the emblematic building into a five-star hotel. Each of the hotel’s 144 rooms offer the ultimate in luxury, featuring high-beamed ceilings, arched windows and details befitting of world class hospitality. Looking to provide a similarly world class TV entertainment package, Techlive was approached to discuss the system’s on-demand content provision. Techlive implemented an Airtime service on each guest-room hospitality TV, offering guests early-release, pay-as-you-watch blockbuster movies and television content. “We were asked to provide a user-friendly VOD solution that catered for the hotel’s cosmopolitan guest demographic” said Airtime Product Manager, Richard Excell “Airtime was the obvious solution, offering multi-language support and subtitles across 12 key languages.”
THE JOIDES RESOLUTION
Part of the International Ocean Discovery Program, the Joides Resolution (JR) research vessel drills into the ocean floor to collect and study core samples, allowing scientists to better understand climate change, geology and the Earth’s history. The vessel spends 222 days a time at sea, an obvious hardship for the ship’s 50 scientists and 65 crew – who are in need of respite entertainment options to while away the hours. Techlive was honoured to support such an important initiative with a library of blockbuster movie content, remotely implemented onto the ship’s entertainment system. In total, 60 movies were provided, including a mixture of early-release titles, blockbusters and movie classics across the ages. “Key to this particular content provision is the ability to refresh the content periodically” said Content Support Executive, Reece Aherne “we’re of course conscious that the ship’s crew aren’t blessed with limitless entertainment options in their spare time!” “I’m sure the crew are quite pleased that ‘Jaws’ or the ‘Perfect Storm’ isn’t currently on the list of Airtime classics” said Airtime Product Manager, Richard Excell “we’ll be careful to provide suitable classics moving forward!”
QUEST APARTMENT HOTELS
The Quest Apartment Hotel Group operate over 170 properties in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the United Kingdom. Typically located in close proximity to business centres and major tourist destinations, Quest provide flexible “home-from-home” accommodation, offering hotel amenities alongside cooking and laundry facilities, and plenty of space. “Quest is a key player in the ever-growing apartment-hotel market” said Techlive Managing Director, Tim Worrall “we’re delighted to partner with them to provide movie content across their global portfolio of properties.” Techlive deployed a guest-pay Airtime service on Philips Media Suite hospitality TVs in three New Zealand Properties – Quest Newmarket (50 rooms), Quest Carlaw Park (42 rooms) and Quest On Beaumont (34 rooms).
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