Yandex launches a multimedia platform for smart televisors

April 23 Yandex announced the launch of a proprietary multimedia platform for smart televisors that allows you to watch the air television channels and gain access to the content of online cinemas.

"The platform combines the etheric television channels, more than 200 Yandex.Fira free channels and the HD Kino-Kino-Kino-Kino theater. They are assembled in the same video interface throughout the video. You can look for the name, genre or, say, actor. So, spectators will easily find films with Tom Hardy," Project Anna Nikolaevna "or interviews Yuri Dude to choose what to see, Yandex recommends films and videos that he may like, ”the company said .

The Yandex specified that on TVs with the new platform you can also watch videos on YouTube and use the application of online cinemas IVI, MEGOGO, OKKO, TVIGLE and TVZAVR. A special mode allows parents to protect children from undesirable content.

The multimedia platform "Yandex" works on the basis of the Android OS. It is already used on DEXP TVs, and in the near future it will appear on Hyundai, LEFF, AMCV, Yuno and other brands. DEXP TVs with Yandex are available in DNS stores. All buyers of these and other TVs on the new platform will receive three months of the Yandex.Plus subscription as a gift.

Recall, on the eve of Yandex, they presented the Yandex.mesenger service, designed to communicate users and existing both in the form of separate applications for Android and iOS, and on the main screen of Yandex, and in the desktop Yandex.mrazer. In the messenger you can lead channels, make audio and video calls. It already has channels of large media, Yandex, KinoPoisk and other services. Among other things, the application allows you to decipher voice messages and turn them into a text using Speechkit speech recognition technology.