What They Say
LG Electronics has launched Pro:Centric Catena, a network management solution that allows customers to select from any available restaurant TV and listen to audio through their own smartphones and earbuds. This is ideal for locations with multiple screens with different content, such as sports bars.
The solution comprises a server and a TV application that is accessed through an intuitive web-based user interface, providing control of every display, either individually or in pre-arranged groups of displays. TVs can be remotely tuned, powered on and off, rebooted and display custom messaging created by the owners. Catena is designed to work exclusively with LG Pro:Centric Smart IP televisions and set-top boxes and supports both High Definition and 4K UHD resolutions.
Pro:Centric Catena supports cable and satellite box sources as well as commercial video-on-demand services using the Pro:Idiom DRM system
What We Think
I don’t go to sports bars much, but just before lockdown in March 2020, and planned around an ATC event that was cancelled, I spent the afternoon in a busy bar that was showing a number of different soccer and rugby events. There was a very multinational clientele, so a choice of languages would also have been useful! (A week later, I spent a couple of days in bed with a fever – I have never been sure it if was a very mild dose of the virus, contracted in the bar). (BR)
