Cinemo Partners With NIO to Bring Home-Entertainment-Grade Experience to Its Premium Electric Vehicles
June 21 2024 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
Cinemo technology is powering NIO’s premium
entertainment platform, creating memorable in-car experiences for
users with access to their favourite subscription-based streaming
services
Cinemo, a global leader in high-performance and automotive-grade
multimedia playback, streaming, media management, connectivity, and
cloud middleware, has partnered with NIO – a leader in the premium
smart electric vehicle market – to deliver a
home-entertainment-like in-car experience to NIO users in
Europe.
With the introduction of the ET7, EL7, ET5, ET5 Touring, EL6 and
EL8 models in Europe, NIO is raising the bar for premium in-car
entertainment. Powered by Cinemo’s CARS Online Video, journeys are
turned into a memorable, shared digital media experience for family
and friends.
NIO users can now enjoy their favorite movies and TV series
together, from the comfort of their electric vehicle. This
experience can be accessed effortlessly from the vehicle’s center
display. Through NIO’s SOTA (software-over-the-air) and FOTA
(firmware-over-the-air) updates, new features, integrations and
functionality are automatically added to its premium entertainment
unit.
The Cinemo CARS™ product portfolio, selected by NIO to deliver
its exceptional entertainment experiences, is designed for easy
integration and quick time to market. Built to enrich the Android
Automotive Operating System, Cinemo CARS™ features complete and
customizable applications, making it the ideal media solution to
complement and enhance Android’s offering with different scenarios,
such as multi-screen, premium video-on-demand and immersive audio,
delivering a world of entertainment for all passengers. To ensure
safety while driving, Cinemo CARS™ products support Android Car
User Experience Restrictions.
“We’re delighted to be partnering with Cinemo to provide our
users with best-in-class video-on-demand experiences,” says
Benjamin Steinmetz, Product Experience Director at NIO. “The
support from the Cinemo team has been instrumental in achieving our
vision to take NIO’s digital multimedia experience to the next
level. Using Cinemo’s suite of advanced multimedia solutions
ensures we can always provide our users with the latest in-vehicle
digital media experiences.”
Elif Ede, VP Strategy at Cinemo adds: “We are passionate to
deliver groundbreaking innovations to create future-ready
infotainment solutions that not only deliver a premium experience
today, but which are also primed for the next wave of in-vehicle
innovation. We are excited to bring home-entertainment-like
experiences to NIO users.”
About NIO Inc.:
NIO Inc. is a pioneer and a leading company in the premium smart
electric vehicle market. Founded in November 2014, NIO’s mission is
to shape a joyful lifestyle. NIO aims to build a community starting
with smart electric vehicles to share joy and grow together with
users.
NIO designs, develops, jointly manufactures, and sells premium
smart electric vehicles, driving innovations in next-generation
technologies in autonomous driving, digital technologies, electric
powertrains and batteries. NIO differentiates itself through its
continuous technological breakthroughs and innovations, such as its
industry-leading battery swapping technologies, Battery as a
Service, or BaaS, as well as its proprietary autonomous driving
technologies and Autonomous Driving as a Service, or ADaaS.
NIO’s product portfolio consists of the ES8, a six-seater smart
electric flagship SUV, the ES7 (or the EL7), a mid-large
five-seater smart electric SUV, the ES6 (or the EL6), a five-seater
all-round smart electric SUV, the EC7, a five-seater smart electric
flagship coupe SUV, the EC6, a five-seater smart electric coupe
SUV, the ET7, a smart electric flagship sedan, the ET5, a mid-size
smart electric sedan, the ET5T, a smart electric tourer, and its
smart electric executive flagship, the ET9.
About Cinemo:
Cinemo is a global provider of highly innovative infotainment
products that make every screen an opportunity. Its range of
award-winning, fully integrated, low-footprint digital media
offerings combine high performance with high quality and are truly
system agnostic.
Whether embedded, as mobile apps or through the cloud, Cinemo
supports all digital media scenarios for any industry and any
device. Its product portfolio is designed and built to deliver
excellence, accelerate time to market, and lower TCO for its
clients while creating digital media experiences that matter.
Founded in 2008, and with a strong history of industry firsts,
Cinemo is the partner of choice for more than 40 market-leading
OEMs and over 20 tier-1s. The company works with the top high-tech
and consumer electronic companies as well as global music and video
content providers. Cinemo’s global team of 300+ innovative thinkers
from 40 nationalities continuously delivers groundbreaking
innovation.
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Press: NIO | Julia
Valenzuela-Bock, Senior PR Manager Europe (Julia.bock@nio.io)
Cinemo | Martina Oerther, Marketing Director
(moerther@cinemo.com)