Hibox and Viking Line, a Finnish shipping company, have signed a deal to install Hibox’s IPTV system on Viking Line’s future vessel, the Viking Grace. The cabins on the ferry will be equipped with Hibox’s next generation IPTV platform that allow guests to access a world of entertainment and information while using Philips’s new Internet enabled MediaSuite TVs.
The new cruise ship is expected to begin service in January 2013 between Turku, Mariehamn and Stockholm and is under construction at the STX Finland shipyard in Turku.
"Hibox was willing to implement all the modifications we wanted to be able to offer something special and new," tells Kenneth Kronström, it project manager from Viking Line.
"With new state-of- the-art technology the system will enable interactive entertainment and information services without any requirements for smart cards or external boxes in the cabins," says Staffan Granholm, CEO of Hibox Systems.
Hibox Systems Ltd is a Finnish company, which offers advanced interactive information and entertainment solutions for the hospitality industry as well as IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) solutions for broadband providers. The company is partly owned by the Anvia Group, another Finnish ict company.