The new TVolution streaming box will come with over 50 streaming channels including popular services such as the Philippines' biggest pay TV provider Cignal, Southeast Asia's biggest video-on-demand provider iflix, the world's leading internet television service Netflix, and largest video sharing website YouTube.
'More Filipinos are streaming their favorite TV shows at home. By combining the best of the Roku Channel Store with leading local streaming services, PLDT will offer the most compelling video portfolio in the Philippines,' said Reyes. 'PLDT aims to add more channels to build the most superior entertainment offer in the country.'
The Roku Powered™ TVolution box and service is available to all PLDT HOME Fibr, DSL, and Ultera customers starting from May for an additional monthly service fee of P299. Subscribers can choose from billions of hours of free content or purchase paid content from different providers with minimal additional charges and no contract.
The new TVolution streaming box remote control includes quick access buttons to the following services:
- Cignal TV is the most popular pay TV provider in the Philippines with 1.2 million subscribers. Cignal transmits 105 SD and 29 HD channels, including free-to-air channels and a mix of audio channels. It also offers on-demand viewing via Pay-Per-View, as well as multiscreen access via its Front Seat website and app.
- iflix distributes Western and Asian dramas obtained through partnerships with over 150 studios and content distributors globally including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBC Universal, Fox, CBS, BBC, Sony Pictures and Discovery. iflix is currently available in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Maldives, Pakistan, Vietnam and Myanmar.
- Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with over 100 million subscribers in 190 markets. Netflix offers a wide variety of series and films, from critically-acclaimed Netflix original series to iconic US, European, and Asian films and series, documentaries, and kids content. Netflix will bring over 400 original series and films to the service in 2017 including the highly-awaited War Machine, starring Brad Pitt and Sir Ben Kingsley, Okja starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton and Paul Dano; Bright, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, as well as returning seasons of Netflix award-winning shows like Orange Is the New Black and Stranger Things.
- YouTube is the second most popular website in the world based on Alexa rankings. As of February 2017, there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content is watched on YouTube every day.
PLDT has been continuously improving its broadband services by expanding aggressively its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) facilities that can provide ultra-fast internet speeds for families. The FTTH lines are expected to pass 4.4 million homes by the end of the year.
PLDT is also deploying hybrid fiber technologies such as Huawei Technologies' G.fast which can boost data speeds up to 600-700 Mbps over existing copper lines. With these initiatives, PLDT envisions that all its subscribers will be in 'smart homes' by the end of 2018.
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