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Techlive International
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.
VIDEO ON DEMAND – THE FUTURE
Airtime is a hospitality exclusive streaming service, providing Hollywood movies, premium documentaries, wellbeing content and live streaming
channels. It can be remotely implemented on hospitality certifi ed TVs and accessed via the TV’s on-screen menu.
Using cloud-based technology, Airtime enables the hotelier to save on expensive headend equipment, in-room set-top boxes and all associated support, maintenance and contract costs.
DELIGHT YOUR GUESTS
Airtime o ers hoteliers the chance to add a compelling service o ering with zero cost implication, whilst also releasing movies weeks ahead of popular consumer streaming services like Netfl ix and Amazon Prime. Naturally, a library of older content and movie classics is also available.
Airtime is available as a ‘pay as you play’ service, or for hotels looking to provide a real value-added experience, complimentary to the guest.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
When it’s time for a movie, a high-defi nition television is a much more inclusive, relaxing and luxurious experience - not everybody wants to watch content on a tablet or 22
Video on Demand app for hotels
smartphone screen and importantly, not everybody has a portable device or streaming service subscription.
Airtime provides in-room movie content to ALL your guests.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Airtime uses cloud-based technology, enabling the hotelier to save on expensive headend equipment and in-room hardware. Simply download the app, apply for an activation and the service is ready.
Also, there’s no requirement to sign up to long, rigid contracts as is usually the case with hotel video on demand systems.
TELL ME ABOUT THE CONTENT?
Airtime release movies weeks ahead of popular consumer services like Netfl ix and Amazon Prime; this is supplemented by a vast library of content from studios such as Disney, Universal, Paramount, Fox and Dreamworks. THE VR GROUP CHOOSE AIRTIME The Quadrant Hotel & Suites, Auckland, New Zealand
The VR Group manage 1,500 rooms within 19 hotels and serviced apartments across New Zealand. Following a successful trial withing VR’s Lofts Apartments property in Queenstown, Airtime is delighted to be powering guest entertainment at The Quadrant Hotel in Auckland.
Techlive worked with New Zealand based partner, the AV Supply Group, to implement an Airtime guest-entertainment plus package, o ering complimentary movie content, within the newly refurbished hotel.
“Very much part of VR’s ethos is the provision of value-added benefi ts within their guest-room, naturally, the provision of a complimentary to the guest Airtime service ticked all the right boxes. We’re delighted to partner with VR and look forward to growing with them” said Richard Excell, Operations Director, Techlive
Group General Manager, Prashant Malik added, “Airtime was the perfect answer and the implementation has been amazingly seamless and simple, yet the result is so di erent to previous orthodox providers. Great result and great people to work with.”