ERTFLIX: ERT enters the new era of Streaming services

H ERT decided to follow in part the example of the others streaming services operating in Greece and utilizing part of its huge film library.

Ο ERT president, Konstantinos Zoulas announced the new opportunity given to viewers, the entry of ERT hybrid television. As of today, ERT offers completely free 24 foreign films, 12 foreign serials, 10 award-winning documentary series, 13 well-known series of children's programs as well as all the lessons of the educational television of the Ministry of Education that is broadcast every morning on ERT2.

ERT in the new era, ERT NEWMEDIA

With its focus on modern technological developments, ERT, through its General Directorate of New Media, redistributes almost all multimedia content, produced through the plethora of media available on the internet.

At the same time, it strengthens its presence through the many websites it has, its presence on social networks (Social Media), applications (smart apps), interconnected and hybrid TV services (Smart TV and HbbTV services) and internet channels (ad-Hoc Web Channels).

The post of Konstantinos Zoulas in detail (moveitmag.gr):

The new service is called ERTFLIX, and whoever presses the red button on his remote control from today and enters ERT's hybrid TV, is sure to be impressed.

It's not just the new and completely modern environment designed by ERT technicians that has nothing to envy from the Netflix, Amazon or Apple platforms.

Viewers will be impressed when they realize that ERT is currently offering 24 free foreign films, 12 foreign serials, 10 award-winning documentary series, 13 well-known children's series and of course all the lessons of the educational television of the Ministry of Education that are broadcast every morning. on ERT2.

And along with all this, ERT offers a completely separate category highlighting its archive, as in the first unofficial today's launch of… ERTFLIX, 20 historical shows-tributes to 20 great Greeks have already been uploaded, such as…

Manos Hadjidakis
Odysseas Elytis
George Seferis
Maria Callas
Eleni Vlachou
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Manolis Anagnostakis
Giannis Tsarouchis and many more.

And all this, as stressed, all citizens they can enjoy them for free on their TV and -mostly- at the time they want to watch them.

In fact, ERT, in order to facilitate the viewers who have new (smart) TVs, but by pressing the red button on their remote control do not see the hybrid platform, has already uploaded on YouTube short useful videos on how citizens can activate the relevant service. if it is not already enabled by the factory settings of each model. The relevant links can be found at the end of this article and on the ERT site, by TV brand that everyone has.

But let's see in detail what one can see today on… ERTFLIX:

24 award-winning films are already available including…

the "Miracle" with Julia Roberts
"Every moment counts" with Julianne Moore
The "Dangerous Family" with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer
"Father and Daughter" with Russell Crowe
"Grace of Monaco" with Nicole Kidman,
the "Program" with Dustin Hoffman
The "Truth" with Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett
the "Little Innocent Lies" with Marion Cotillard
"I, Daniel Blake" with Dave Jones, Brianna Sun, Hailey Squires
the "Story of Love and Darkness" with Natalie Portman
the biographies of Jacques Yves Cousteau "Odyssey" and the pop music diva "Dalinda"
the children's animated film "Louis and Luca - The big cheese fight".

The relevant category even contains information for each film and will be updated regularly from now on.

Most of these movie titles are already available on state television WEBTV.

For the first time, ERT also offers viewers the opportunity to watch at any time all the episodes of foreign series broadcast by its channels such as…

the "Fargo"
"Mr Selfridge"
"War & Peace"
"The Good Fight"
the "Tin Star"
the "Ballers" etc.

while very soon the demonic detective Poirot and Miss Marple will be added with their adventures through the classic series "Agatha Christie's Poirot" and "Agatha Christie's Ms Marple".

Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (HbbTV) is a new broadcasting standard that allows Internet services to integrate or connect to a broadcast television program. Aimed at users who have a Smart TV connected to the internet.

With hybrid TV, users can access a variety of online services such as

Catch-up Video
livestream streams
Video on Demand (VoD) platforms
program-related applications

and other rich services, live on their TV - in a seamless experience. ERT's HbbTV services are activated by pressing the "red button" on their remote control.

Users explore services with traditional navigation keys (including the OK key and the colored keys on the remote control). The current version of the HbbTV specification also includes support for "adaptive" video streaming via broadband, thus ensuring the best possible output on your screen. For more information on HbbTV, visit www.hbbtv.org.

For connection via smartphone and tablet you can download the free application for Android and iOS from the links below.