Future-Proof Hotel Software for IPTV Systems

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IPTV rackmount

CONTENTS

IPTV “Hotel Solution” 3-8

Hotel Software Basic 9-10

Content Management System 11-12

Video-on-Demand (VoD) Films 13-15

Set-Back Boxes 16-17

Remote Control “Hotel” 18

Special Brochures 19

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IPTV “Hotel Solution”

The IPTV hotel solution from Kathrein

offers your guests from at home and

abroad not just entertainment but also in-

formation about your hotel and its environs.

No matter whether it’s a large business

hotel or a small family hotel, the IPTV hotel

solution from Kathrein is always perfectly

positioned.

The IPTV hotel solution from Kathrein con-sists of a basic package that can be extended individually with a variety of media packages in accordance with the hotel operator’s wishes. It offers the guest simple, logical and self-ex-planatory operation. The highlight is a cinema package with the latest blockbusters from the biggest fi lm studios. We deliver the fi lms imme-diately to your video-on-demand platform.

• Customised IPTV solution • “Hard wired” to your guests • Individually optimised TV experience for

your guests • Logically structured and self-explanatory

operating concept • Perfect entertainment for demanding TV

connoisseurs • The latest top Hollywood blockbusters • Interactivity – the guests determine their

own programme • Cost-efficient, compact solution without

additional expenditure

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Live TV

• List the TV programmes in the national language of the guest

• Full HD, 3D ready • Display the electronic programme

guide (EPG) in matrix form on the TV set • Quick channel change times

(Ø: 0.5 seconds) • Display subtitles • Predefined setting for maximum volume • Pause/resume on each channel

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Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)

• Channel overview in interactive matrix form

• Current, future and past programmes from the individual TV providers in over-view

• Detail view gives extended EPG information

Timeshift TV “24 + 3”

Clear EPG matrix with the available timeshift TV channels fl agged

• Recording of selected TV channels in a ring buffer on the server - e.g. 27 hours per channel

• Choice and number of channels as well as the duration of the recording can be specified centrally

• Call up timeshift TV channels using the interactive EPG matrix

• TV recordings can be scheduled from the EPG matrix

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Personal video recorder (nPVR)

• Facility for central recording of TV broad-casts for the subscriber on the server

• No additional recording devices or exter-nal hard disk necessary

• Facility for simultaneous recording of multiple TV broadcasts

• Recording from the EPG matrix, timed input or immediately

• Simultaneous playback available during recording

• Pause/continue during playback, fast forward and rewind

• Centrally defined maximum recording capacity for each room

• All recordings are automatically deleted when the guest checks out

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Teletext

• Central storage of the pages and subpages from all broadcasters for faster access

• All subpages can be called up immediately by navigation using the control pointer of the remote control

• Full or transparent display of text pages

Live radio

• Guest’s local radio channels top the channel list

• Programme information by the EPG matrix (current and future broadcasts)

• Predefined setting for maximum volume• Black screen video signal

Customer-specifi c formatting of

the user interface is available

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• Multi-language user interface • Clear, informative and modern in format• Logically arrange navigation • GUI adapted to the remote control • GUI can be customised to match the

hotel’s corporate design

Graphical User

Interface (GUI)

• Documented XML interfaces for provisioning, controlling, status checking and linking to third party systems

• Remote management • Web-based administration tool (user

rights, TV channels, timeshift TV, storage assignment etc.)

Additional

software information

• Central setting of programmes • Central configuration of the live TV and

radio channels (add, remove, edit etc.) • Central configuration of the timeshift

TV channels • Definition of the pause/resume function

for channels that are not timeshift TV channels

• Display the settings for thestandard hardware

Configuration

tool (Web-based)

Status Dashboard

(Web-based)• Status display of the DVB sources • Status display of the TV and

radio channels • Status display of the timeshift

TV recordings • Status display of the nPVR memory• Status display of the set-back boxes or

the TV sets • Status display of the remote controls

(battery status)

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Welcome screen• TV is automatically switched on in the hotel room 1)

• Personal welcome message in the guest’s language

• Messages can be set to individual per-sons, groups or all hotel guests from the reception

• Request read acknowledgement

Messages

• TV set is automatically switched off after a time period defined by the hotel guest (30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes)

Sleep mode

Wake-up function

• TV set can give the hotel guest a wake-up call at the time he/she desires and in the desired mode (TV or radio)

• Incrementally increasing volume configurable

• Snooze mode (in intervals of e.g. five minutes)

Welcome screen featuring a welcome message in the guest’s national language

1) Function must be supported by the TV set

Hotel Software Basic

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Reception tool

(Web-based)• Check in/check out • Display the room status • Language settings of the system

for the guest • Setting the juvenile protection • Activation of the welcome screen

in the room • Providing the set-back box with all

relevant data (channel sequence, messages etc.)

• Message administration • Integration into PMS available

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Content Management System

The Kathrein Content Management System

provides your hotel guests with visual

information in a form appropriate to them

as customers, such as text and images.

Main menu with hotel information adapted to the corporate design

Your benefits• Presentation platform for your hotel• Central generation of information • Dynamic information management in har-

mony with the corporate design of the operator

• Up-to-date information always ensured • Very simple operation, so no program-

ming or HTML knowledge necessary • Saves time and costs • Uniform presentation • The contents are stored separately

from the design, so the design remains unchanged

• Replaces costly and labour-intensive guest folders in the rooms

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• Advance notice of in-house events or regional events

• The daily menus and tariffs for the restau-rant, bar etc. can be called up

• Presentation of your wellness offering in the SPA and in the fitness studio

• House magazines and house announce-ments

• Special offers

Example

Advertising for hotel services through content management system

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Video-on-Demand (VoD) Films

Our offering provides you not only with an

interactive hotel TV solution, but also at the

same time with top current content.

This allows you to offer your guests the lat-

est blockbusters from Hollywood and also

erotic fi lms can be called up at any time.

Your benefits

• “Early release window”: Connection to the latest films shortly after their release to cinemas and before theiravailability on DVD

• Additional source of revenue byattractive revenue share model

• High-quality film offering for your hotel guests, consisting of blockbusters and erotic titles of a variety of genres

• Automatic updates of the films via the Internet (no administrative and technical effort for you)

• Films in a variety of languages • Integral juvenile protection • State-of-the-art additional service

for your guests

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Example depiction of video-on-de-mand offering varyingover time

• Content purchase at the film studios• Programme planning • Content preparation including encoding,

encryption, acquisition and preparation of the metadata

• Transfer of the video files and metadata to your VoD server via the Internet

• Marketing support and on-screen adver-tising

• Cinema trailers, title covers anddescriptions of the films

• Data reports to Hollywood • Central DRM - no local costs for encryp-

tion

Services for

you

Detailed infor-mation on the selected fi lm

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Hollywood

blockbusters

and indepen-

dent studios

• About 15 to 20 of the top current feature films can be called up at any time

• Monthly updating with about twoto three new blockbuster films, automatically provided in the “to the cinema” evaluation window in the system

• We offer films from the following film studios, amongst others: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sony Pictures Releasing, Walt Disney Pictures

Adult and

erotic content• We deliver 40 to 50 current titles of different

genres in top quality • Roughly 10 films are updated per quarter

• Minimum sale price: € 6.50 per film (exclusive of taxes)

• 25 % of the sales price is retained by the hotelier

• No minimum monthly turnover • You pay only when your guests consume

the films• This is conditional on an existing software

maintenance contract

Revenue share

model

• Fixed rate per month and room, covered by the hotel or operator respectively

• Free and unlimited consumption of films by the guests

• This is conditional on an existing software maintenance contract

Flat-rate model

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Set-Back Boxes

• Mounting rail for all 3 VESA thread sizes

• No display • Control interface for hotel LCD TVs

RS 232 via RJ 11 • Radio remote control featuring pairing on

operation

UFI 512sw

UFI 112sw (available 2nd quarter/2012)

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• Noiseless: No hard disk drive or extractor fan sounds

• No visibly installed, bothersome LEDs • Integrated radio receiver • Integrated power supply unit

Set-back box

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Remote Control “Hotel”

Due to the ideal adaptation to the menu

functions, your hotel guests can use all IPTV

offers and services simply and easily.

• Appealing slim-line design • All main functions accessible directly

at the push of a button • Help button for questions about

applications • Internationally understandable symbols • Just a single remote control for set-back

box and TV set • Available with individual logo and colour

scheme • Well-known operating concept • Casing of extremely robust ABS • Transmission configurable for infra-red

and radio (2.4 GHz) in order to avoid interference signals

• Battery status report to reception/housekeeping, to ensure unrestricted functionality

• Batteries supplied • Dimensions (mm): 230 x 46 x 12

The new remote control offers a variety of benefi ts for you as well as a self-explanatory, simple operating concept for your guests

Appealing slim-line design

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Current information on the Kathrein IPTV rackmount system and the associated set-top boxes can be found in the special brochures depicted here which canbe ordered online or downloaded from “www.kathrein.de”.

You can also order hard copies of the brochures featured on this page from your local Kathrein representative.

Further Information

Special Brochures

1Interactive IPTV Platform

IPTV System IPTV Set-Top Boxes

Internet: www.kathrein.de · E-mail: iptv@kathrein.de

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KATHREIN-Werke KG · Tel +49 8031 184-0 · Fax +49 8031 184-385 Anton-Kathrein-Str. 1 - 3 · P.O. Box 10 04 44 · D-83004 Rosenheim/GERMANY

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