Introducing Filmicca by Magine Pro
Filmicca is the ultimate destination for fans of authorial and cult cinema, offering an eclectic mix of classics and contemporary works. This independent Brazilian streaming service stands out for its celebration of diversity, featuring films by women, LGBTQIA+ narratives, black stories, and emerging filmmakers. With exciting weekly releases that include exclusive titles and festival favourites, Filmicca is set to entertain audiences across Brazil.
In partnership with Magine Pro, Filmicca has seamlessly transitioned its streaming service and extensive library to the Magine Pro OTT Platform, ensuring flawless integration across mobile applications and big screens. This migration prioritised minimal downtime and user disruption, allowing Brazilian audiences to continue enjoying uninterrupted access to a wide array of high-quality, diverse films.
Dive into our case study to explore Filmicca’s journey of enhancing its service and user experience. And, if you’re curious to experience the vibrant world of Filmicca, here’s a sneak peek at the service.
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Case Study: QR codes and the Smart TV experience
We explore how Magine Pro incorporated QR technology to enhance the Smart TV streaming experience for end users.
What is a QR code?
Quick Response (QR) codes are two-dimensional barcodes that are readable by smartphones and tablet devices. QR codes contain information in the form of text, hyperlinks, and images, which are designed to be scanned and accessed quickly. This makes them ideal for streaming operators who want to provide their users with quick access to important information, including sign-up and sign-in forms, without needing to type into their devices.
QR codes are convenient, easy to use, and unique for each task, service, or landing page required.
Motive
To simplify the signup and login process on native Smart TV streaming apps for end users, eliminating the need to manually input details using the TV remote.
End User Benefits
- A seamless sign-in experience for registered users.
- Quicker and more convenient than typing in details with a TV remote to sign in or for new users to sign up.
- An effortless way for users to connect their TV to their streaming service account.
Approach
The QR code project was conceptualised during a Magine Pro engineering Hackday and began development in Q2 2022. Our engineers focused on front-end changes and took a Backend For Frontend (BFF) approach to development to avoid impacting the platform’s existing end-user login flow. In order to successfully deploy QR sign-up and sign-in, the decision to utilise Long Polling over WebSockets was made for backward compatibility reasons that could impact ongoing engineering projects.
The QR End User Journey
The steps to sign in to the TV app using a QR code
- The user downloads the compatible native app onto their Vizio, LG or Samsung Smart TV.
- Once loaded, users will be asked to scan the QR code for convenience or manually enter a sign-in code via their mobile device to connect their account to their Smart TV.
- Users can then confirm the linkage and immediately begin streaming through the TV app.
Check out our findings and what we discovered during the QR technology build, including engineering lessons and UX/UI challenges in our latest white paper, Go big or stay small? Why the Smart TV experience is essential for online streaming services.
Download the white paper now and explore why Magine Pro is best positioned to help OTT operators capitalise on the big-screen experience, enabling them to reach more viewers and grow their OTT business. We discuss why offering native Smart TV apps is essential for online streaming services and dive into the complexities of building TV apps. We also share insights from one of our partners, Passionflix founder Tosca Musk, on the realities of running a specialist streaming service on multiple devices, including the big screen.
Head over to our homepage to find out more about Magine Pro’s extensive library of technical resources and experienced team that enable our partners to deliver seamless streaming experiences on all devices, including the big screen. You can also check out our experience page to learn more about our partners.
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Introducing acontra+ by Magine Pro
A Contracorriente Films partnered with Magine Pro in 2020 to host their earlier TVOD service, Sala Virtual de Cine, on the Magine Pro platform. In 2022, A Contracorriente Films sought to launch the new acontra+ service, offering audiences a premium subscription model alongside TVOD for exclusive content releases.
acontra+, is a new Spanish streaming concept that combines movie streaming and cinema tickets in a subscription. The streaming service is run by the independent Spanish distributor A Contracorriente Films. It offers a vast catalogue of national and international feature films of all genres, classics and contemporary films.
The acontra+ streaming service is for audiences who want to enjoy the big screen and those who love to watch movies in theatres and at home.
Check out our case study to find out more about how we leveraged our OTT platform to launch acontra+.
Take a sneak peek at acontra+…
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Introducing Nexo+ by Magine Pro
Italian film production & distribution company Nexo recently partnered with us to build & launch their new VOD service, Nexo+.
Nexo is a leader in the global event cinema market and is known internationally for the direct theatrical distribution of art, historical, music and cultural documentaries. They partnered with Magine Pro to leverage our experience and full end-to-end capabilities. The Nexo+ service was required to support a subscription model and launch initially in Italy on web, iOS and Android platforms, Samsung, LG, Apple TV, Android TV and Amazon Fire and later expand into other countries.
Nexo+ offers nine different categories of content, including ‘La Grande Arte’ (High Art) and stage events such as theatre shows, concerts and ballets. Nexo+ can populate and customise categories within the service using Magine Pro’s CMS Console, which also enables them to curate the start page, hero specific content, select different dynamic display options and edit metadata and content descriptions.
Check out our case study to find out more about how we leveraged our OTT platform to launch Nexo+.
Take a sneak peek at Nexo+…
If you want to find out more about Magine Pro’s OTT platform and video streaming services, get in touch! We can help you enhance your existing services and/or launch something entirely new. You can also check out our experience and more of our case studies here.
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