Chile’s Entel has responded to changing consumer viewing habits by going OTT on a wide range of devices, including smart TVs, tablets, phones and Android TV STBs.
The Entel TV STBs allow the company’s broadband subscribers to watch hundreds of channels of live TV, which they can restart and pause. They can also catch up with content they have missed. Customers who don’t have an Entel broadband package or STB can access a reduced selection of OTT channels and related catchup on their own devices, but enjoy the full range of functionality.
24i’s Big Screen SDK and Smart Apps solutions are used to bring the custom Entel user interface to the widest range of devices. 24i’s work with Entel began in 2015. An earlier iteration of our Big Screen SDK was used to bring Entel TV to life on Linux STBs that launched in 2017.
The service was extended in 2020 to reach Samsung and LG smart TVs and the new Android TV STBs - the first on the market in Chile. The Smart Apps cross-platform codebase was used to also reach iOS and Android devices for out-of-home content consumption.
