Eros Now Partners with Opera TV
August 11 2017 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Eros Now will be available across millions of
smart TVs, Blu-ray disc players and set-top boxes powered by Opera
TV worldwide
Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) (“Eros”), a leading
global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, announced
today that Eros Now, its cutting-edge digital over-the-top
(OTT) South Asian entertainment platform, will now be available on
all Opera TV powered devices including smart TVs, Blu-ray
disc players and set-top boxes worldwide. Subscribers will also be
able to access Eros Now using the Opera TV store.
Eros Now’s wide-ranging library of Bollywood and regional
language films, music videos, TV shows, originals and more will now
be made available on Opera TV’s vast network of users across
millions of devices worldwide. Users will also have access to a
range of exciting features including full length movies, thematic
curated playlists, multi-language subtitles for movies, music video
playlists, regional language filters, video progression and access
to a watch list of titles.
Commenting on the association, Rishika Lulla Singh, CEO, Eros
Digital says, “We are excited to announce our collaboration
with Opera TV and expand Eros Now’s global presence on their
platform, which is the world’s largest unified platform for
connected TV devices spanning more than 40 million devices shipped
each year. With this association, we continue to be platform
agnostic, providing a premium OTT experience and extending our
reach to Opera’s fast growing network of users across the
world.”
"Eros is one of India's top film studios, creating some of
Bollywood's most popular and enduring
stories," said Aneesh Rajaram, CEO, Opera
TV. "We're excited to partnering with Eros to distribute
their on-demand app, Eros Now, to millions of Opera TV-powered
Smart TVs. Working together with Opera TV, Eros can bring their
creative vision to multiple brands and millions of users with
just one single application."
About Eros Now
Eros Now is Eros International Plc’s leading on-demand South
Asian entertainment network accessible anytime, anywhere, on most
Internet-connected screen including mobile, web, and TV. Eros Now
offers its 68 million registered users worldwide the promise of
endless entertainment hosting one of the largest libraries of
movies, as well as premium television shows, music videos and audio
tracks, unmatched in quantity and quality. Product features, such
as video in HD, multi-language subtitles, movie downloads, and high
quality original drama series differentiate the Eros Now
entertainment offering. To see, watch now: www.erosnow.com
About Eros International Plc
Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) is a leading global
company in the Indian film entertainment industry that acquires,
co-produces and distributes Indian films across all available
formats such as cinema, television and digital new media. Eros
International Plc became the first Indian media company to
list on the New York Stock Exchange. Eros
International has experience of over three decades in
establishing a global platform for Indian cinema. The Company has
an extensive and growing movie library comprising of over 3,000
films, which include Hindi, Tamil, and other regional language
films. The company also owns the rapidly growing OTT platform Eros
Now. For further information please visit: www.erosplc.com
About Opera TV
Opera TV is the market leader in enabling the TV industry’s
transition to OTT. The Opera TV portfolio powers rich web
experiences on tens of millions of devices each year, including
Smart TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, Game Consoles and
chipsets for more than 60 customers. The Opera TV ecosystem spans
the Opera TV Store app platform with over a thousand entertaining
apps tailor-made for TV, the Opera Devices SDK (software
development kit) for creating and rendering HTML5-based user
interfaces including optional modules to enable HbbTV, the Opera
Media Streaming Module, to manage the rapidly changing global OTT
streaming requirements, and the Opera TV browser for browsing the
full web on TV. Opera TV offers solutions for OEMs, pay-TV
operators, broadcasters and content publishers. Visit
www.opera.com/tv to learn more.
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