Paris, France –– beIN Sports, the global network of sports channels owned and operated by beIN Media Group, has commissioned DOTSCREEN to design and develop their brand new TV User Interface for SmartTV applications in France.
DOTSCREEN has designed and developed beIN Sports’s brand new beIN Connect UI, a full-featured, customized User interface displaying all of beIN Sports’s Live and VOD programs, together with engaging features, personalized recommendations, user-centric navigation, all gathered within an intuitive and appealing portal.
The portal offers a wide range of features wanted by sports fans today, such as LIVE watching & control features, program-related interviews and special extracts recommended for viewers, easy browsing within the channels and categories, special highlights never to miss anything.
The portal is offering a whole range of sports categories, covering an exhaustive range of football ligues & championships, as well as a range of other sports that goes from rugby, tennis, & all existing sports fans may want to find.
To develop this beIN Sports Connect new UI ,DOTSCREEN has worked on adpating its homegrown UI “Amazin’TV”, which was fully customized and tailored to beIN Sports’s exact needs, and to their fans expectations.
The new UI is now available on LG devices (WebOS & Netcast), Sony Playstation 4, Samsung devices (Tizen & Orsay) and HiSense devices.
About DOTSCREEN:
DOTSCREEN designs and develops multi-screen applications & UI (available on smart TV, TV set-top boxes, game consoles, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, connected refrigerators, etc.) for major media, telecommunication and electronics companies (Disney, HBO, ESPN, Fox, Turner, CBS, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, Freenet, TF1, Beinsports, Mediaset…). The company also licenses its own, off-the-shelf UI & applications (TV Everywhere, VOD/SVOD, EPG, weather, radio, etc.).
About beIN Sports:
beIN Sports is a global network of sports channels owned and operated by beIN Media Group. beIN currently operates channels in the Middle East & North Africa, France, Spain, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand.
In France, where beIN Sports was launched for the first time, it holds the rights to broadcast major football tournaments, including Ligue 1, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and the European Football Championship. In Spain operated by Mediapro, holds the rights to La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, from July 2015.
beIN Connect, also known as beIN Sports Connect, is a subsidiary over-the-top content (OTT) service started in 2014. It allows users to watch live and on-demand video content from a Mac, Windows PC, mobile phone, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 via a broadband or Wi-Fi internet connection. On-demand content comprises sports highlights, movies, and TV shows. beIN CONNECT is available as a paid service in France, Spain, United States, Canada, Turkey (in 2017), Asia-Pacific (in 2017) and the MENA region.
