At the Yet another Conference (YAC), Yandex presented the Yandex.Module media player, which connects to a TV via an HDMI port and allows you to play Yandex.Efir or another video from the company's application on a large screen. The device has a built-in Yandex smart assistant, Alice, with which the user can use voice commands to adjust the volume, pause a video, or play music.

The "Module" can also be controlled using other smart speakers, even those not connected to the TV. Its price will be 1990 rubles. The device is already available on the Beru marketplace (a joint project of Yandex and Sberbank). According to the product description, the media player runs on the Android operating system.

In the Yandex.Efir project, users will have access to a personalized stream of videos from the company's services. It will be possible to manage it using video ratings. Blogger Evgeny Savin (Krasava) and host Leonid Parfenov, who plans to release programs from the new cycle Namedni on the new service, will collaborate with the project.

Earlier, Vedomosti reported , citing sources, that Yandex had hired a producer who would create programs and shows for the search engine. This is Nikolai Golovin, who was the chief producer of the Friday! TV channel and has spent the last few years developing his own content production studio in the United States. A company representative confirmed this information to the newspaper. According to him, Golovin became the chief producer of Yandex's commercial department in May. This is a new direction for the company - so far, Yandex has only made a few episodes of the Na Muzyki program and a New Year's show.

Yandex Introduces Yandex.Module Media Player