Gehua Cable enters cloud era "cloud box" can watch TV and play games


Gehua Conference site, the public to try the set-top box game features.

Gehua Cable announced the completion of the construction of Gehua Cloud Platform Phase I, and released Gehua Yunfei, Gehua Cloud Games and a new smart set-top box terminal "Gehua Cloud Box." At present, Gehua has entered the stage of upgrading the entire network. Beijing HD interactive users can leap over to the “cloud era” without having to replace the set-top box.

The largest cloud platform in the country

"Gehua Cloud Platform" possesses cloud platform fluidization capabilities and 3D animation rendering capabilities. It has a wide variety of applications. The technology architecture system is the first of its kind in the nation's cable television industry. It has the largest user scale in the country and is the first large-scale cloud platform for the cable TV industry.

At the press conference, the reporter saw the set-top box interface after the cloud platform was upgraded. Compared to the past, this Win8 fashion style interface adjusts the order of one or two menus, provides live small windows of different channels, and the operation response speed is faster. It is understood that there are more than 4 million high-definition interactive TV users in the Beijing area. These users do not need to change the set-top boxes. They can simply upgrade to the Gehua Cloud platform by waiting for the interface upgrade prompt. In order to ensure the safety of operations, it will adopt a step-by-step approach and go online in batches, and strive to complete the entire network upgrade of high-definition interactive users on-line within the year.

Liu Zhiyuan, party secretary of Beijing Radio and Television Station, said at the press conference that the launch of “Gehua Cloud Platform” marks the arrival of the capital Cable TV into the “Cloud Age”.

Yunfei as a multi-screen seamless connection

The two new products released at the conference, Yunfei and Cloud Games, are based on the typical application of “Gehua Cloud Platform”. In the latter stage, applications such as cloud library, cloud disk, and cloud payment will also be launched.

The reporter saw at the exhibition site that Gehua Yunfei's “pulling screen” function can “pull” the TV program being broadcast to the mobile phone and PAD to continue watching; the “push screen” function can display the highlights on the mobile phone and PAD. "Push" directly to the TV and enjoy a larger TV screen with family and friends. A Gehua staff member said: "This is equivalent to turning a TV into multiple TVs. Smartphones and PADs can also be turned into virtual remotes."

Cloud game professional game machine

"Gehua Cloud Platform" relies on cloud computing processing capabilities to run games that were previously only available on PCs and professional game consoles.

Ge Xin, the manager of Gehua Media Asset Management, told the reporter that currently there are 21 on-line games, including Batman, Super Street Fighter, and Assassin's Creed. These games are still in the free phase, and more games will be launched in the future. . "Playing large-scale online games can also use televisions, and no delays will occur. If you think that the remote control is not addictive, then spend tens of dollars to buy a gamepad to access the set-top box."

Cloud box three products on the line

Gehua Cable also introduced a new generation of smart set-top box terminal series - "Gehua cloud box", including "Lucky Cloud", "Cloud", "Xiaoyun" three new set-top box brand. "Gehua Cloud Box" is equipped with DVB HD, standard definition live broadcast, time shift, and look-back functions. It can provide home wireless network and over 100M internet access services. Compared to the previous generation of high-definition interactive digital TV set-top boxes, the Gehua Cloud Box series is smaller, faster, and more powerful.

At present, "Xiaoyun" set-top boxes have been sold in the city's Gehua Wired Business Hall; "Caiyun" set-top boxes are expected to start sales by the end of December; "Lucky Cloud" set-top boxes have already started small-scale pilot projects and are expected to be promoted in 2015.