Belgium’s largest multiservice provider Telenet has extended its deployments of Media Distillery's technology in its nationwide cable TV and IPTV video services, announed Media Dustillery this week.
Telenet has implemented the Image Distillery solution to improve the TV browsing and content discovery experience for its 1.8 million cable TV subscribers. The technology is now live, as part of a new multi-year agreement with Media Distillery, and is enhancing UX across 20 full-time (24-hour) channels.
Image Distillery uses AI to dynamically and automatically generate 3,000 appealing and informative still images every day for Telenet, representing any broadcast TV programme, for display within the service’s UI. High-quality, attractive representational UI imagery leads to better subscriber engagement and satisfaction.
The system captures images from any live broadcast feed, processes and optimises them, and creates well-composed screenshots that depict each programme in the most visually attractive way possible. Scalability and nimbleness are major benefits of Image Distillery.
Ivor Micallef, Director of Entertainment Products at Telenet
We have such a depth of linear channels, there is great disparity among them as regards the variety of images we have at our disposal to use in our EPG. While some of the bigger broadcasters dedicate a lot of editorial effort into curating their visuals and programme information, not all do, and this can be especially hard for some of the smaller broadcasters.
Roland Sars, CEO of Media Distillery
Since we began working with the company back in 2018, Telenet has demonstrated an abiding forward-thinking philosophy, and a willingness to embrace new technology in order to continuously deliver a better user experience to its subscribers.
