Sunday, June 29, 2014

LG Uplus rolls out VoD, IPTV services on LTE platform

South Korean telecommunications operator, LG Uplus, has launched a Video-on-Demand (VoD) movie streaming service, UflixMovie; a mobile IPTV service, Uplus HDTVNew; and a personal broadcasting platform, Uplus tvG, on its advanced Long Term Evolution (LTE) network platform – to aggressively tap and lead the video LTE era.
LG’s UflixMovie will provide access to over 12,000 video contents of films, dramas and overseas TV series at the flat cost of KRW 7,000 (USD 6.86) per month. And the company plans to expand content to 13,000 within this year and subscribers of other carriers are also provided access to this service.
In its mobile IPTV service, Uplus HDTV, LG has embedded the ‘Time Machine’ functionality that enables users to save programs that they are watching in real time for two hours and the ‘Slow Motion’ function which allows users to watch important scenes at 0.5 time speed. With Uplus tvG, users can broadcast in real time through the broadband LTE network.
LG Uplus is offering a broadband LTE-A plan at the cost of KRW 89,900 (USD 88.1) per month for subscribers to avail the various video services.

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