Sling TV Unveils New User Interface
January 05 2016 - 6:30PM
Business Wire
- Introduces personalization, to feature
“MY TV” view with custom recommendations and favorited content
- Enhanced content discovery will improve
navigation, search and content selection
- Contextually aware UI will adapt to
customer behavior based on time of day, location, device type,
popularity and more
Sling TV unveiled its second-generation user interface (UI) at
CES 2016. The new design will create a more personalized
experience, as well as improve content discovery across the Sling
TV platform. The new UI will be optimized for each Sling
TV-supported device and will start rolling out to devices in a
phased-approach, starting in the first quarter of 2016.
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Sling TV unveiled its second-generation
user interface (UI) at CES 2016. The new design will create a more
personalized experience, as well as improve content discovery
across the Sling TV platform. (Photo: Business Wire)
“TV is about being entertained, and for the first time, the new
Sling TV experience will be able to tailor programming suggestions
to your interests,” said Roger Lynch, CEO of Sling TV. “The new
interface will leverage real-time data to help users navigate the
content depth that we’ve brought to Sling TV. This is the beginning
of a reimagined experience, one more personalized and relevant to
each viewer.”
Contextually aware and responsive to customer’s
environment
In future launch phases, the UI will become contextually aware
of viewing preference, location, device, time of day, popularity
and more. For example, the new interface will be able to recognize
that a customer prefers watching news content in the morning or kid
shows on the tablet and modify what is shown in the UI based on
those behaviors.
Customers will find the newest features introduced as part of
the next-generation UI in one of the below navigation screens,
referred to as “views.”
- MY TV: Customers will be able to
find all of their favorite content in the MY TV view, including
their most viewed channels and shows. This is also where customers
will be able to resume watching content that they previously
started but were not able to finish. In future releases,
recommended content based on customer preference, as well as “hot”
content based on viewing behavior across the service and social
trends, will also be found in this view.
- ON NOW: This view will be
automatically curated based on what is currently on TV and will be
organized by content categories. In upcoming releases, the service
will learn customer behaviors and the associated content ribbons
will automatically reorder themselves to align with those
behaviors.
In this view, customers will also have the option to see what
else is currently on in Sling TV’s “Extras,” even if they do not
subscribe to them. Purchase or subscription options are presented
with recommended content.
- SPORTS: The past year has proven
that Sling TV customers love sports. With the new UI, sports fans
can easily watch their favorite team, sport, conference and more.
This view shows live and upcoming sports events and can be manually
filtered based on the viewer’s preference.
- TV SHOWS: TV lovers will be able
to find all of the currently available episodes of their favorite
shows in a singular view. The new category filters include featured
content, trending shows and even full collections.
- MOVIES: Similar to the TV SHOWS
view, the MOVIES view puts all movies into one place including
live, linear and on-demand content. Free movies and movies for rent
will be clearly identified in this view.
For a more detailed list of features that will roll out to
devices over time, visit this blog or watch this demo video. The
Sling TV experience will continue to evolve as new features are
added, more channels are launched and new products are
introduced.
Sling TV Lineup
Sling TV’s “Best of Live TV” includes more than 20 channels for
$20 per month. The package delivers ESPN, ESPN2, AMC, A&E, TNT,
HISTORY, H2, TBS, Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, IFC, El Rey,
Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, ABC Family (to become Freeform later
this month), Disney Channel, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Lifetime and
Galavisión. This package additionally features live access to
WatchESPN, including ESPN3 and on-demand content. Customers can
choose to customize their entertainment experience with the
addition of HBO for $15 per month. Additional add-on packages
include “Sports Extra,” “Hollywood Extra,” “Kids Extra,” “Lifestyle
Extra,” “World News Extra” and Spanish language add-ons, “Deportes
Extras” and “Películas & Novelas Extra,” each for $5 per month.
In addition to live channels and VOD entertainment, Sling TV
customers have access to popular content from Maker Studios.
About Sling TV
Sling TV L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation
(NASDAQ: DISH), provides over-the-top television services including
domestic and international live and Video-On-Demand programming. It
is available on televisions, tablets, computers and smartphones.
The Sling TV programming portfolio includes content from
Disney/ESPN, HBO, AMC, A&E, Turner, Scripps, EPIX, Univision
and Maker Studios. Sling Latino offers a suite of standalone and
add-on Spanish-language programming packages tailored to
English-dominant, bilingual and Spanish-dominant U.S. households.
Sling International currently provides more than 200 channels in 18
languages across multiple devices to U.S. households. Sling TV is a
next-generation service that meets the entertainment needs of
today’s contemporary viewers. Visit www.Sling.com.
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