Optimus Clix achieves 100% Time-Shift TV Services increase in 5 months with Espial MediaBase

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Optimus Clix achieves 100% Time-Shift TV Services increase in 5 months with Espial MediaBase

Written by Robin Hague

Espial, a leader in on-demand TV solutions and services announced that Optimus Clix has doubled the usage of its Time-Shift TV Services in the first 5 months of 2010. Optimus Clix is a fixed and mobile telecom operator in Portugal with a national DSL network reaching 1.6 million homes and a FTTH deployment already covering more than 200,000 households. As part of their triple-play service, customers can subscribe to Optimus Clix TV, its IPTV solution.

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Optimus Clix achieves 100% growth during first 5 months of the year on its Time-Shift TV service.
Espial MediaBase powers on-demand TV services to Optimus Clix TV customer base over its ADSL and FTTH national network.
The Optimus Clix TV service includes:
- over 150 broadcast television channels
- more than 3.000 video-on-demand (VOD) assets
- subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services
- interactive applications such as Games, Facebook, Twitter and Karaoke
Optimus Clix is significantly investing to enhance its TV service:
- In 2009, Optimus Clix increased its VOD catalog to over 3,000 titles targeting different categories, needs and user preferences.
- Optimus Clix has signed new contracts with:
  - major studios like Disney, Sony, Warner and Paramount in 2009 and 2010
  - important local content providers
  - TV VOD now offers the latest and most successful blockbusters in SD and HD.
Espial MediaBase provides an open API so service providers can easily offer innovative on-demand services. Optimus took advantage of this to introduce the following new services in 2009:
- On-demand karaoke service featuring more than 400 international titles
- Restart TV - a unique service in the Portuguese market, it allows customers to tune in after the start of a currently broadcast program and watch it from the beginning.

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"In 2009, we invested heavily in our TV service to provide better quality, increased content and new On-Demand services", said Susanna Barbato, TV Director, Optimus. "To achieve continued growth in service revenue we rely on the Espial MediaBase open application interface to simplify introduction of new services. Their intelligent content delivery distribution makes hyper-efficient use of our network and we can easily scale the system with commercial-off-the-shelf servers".

"Optimus Clix is the most innovative IPTV solution in Portugal" stated Robert Hopkins, Managing Director of Espial Europe. "They are achieving excellent growth with great on-demand content and innovative services. We're pleased that Espial MediaBase is powering their success with on-demand video services".

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