Zattoo passes EM stress test and has 14 new channels
The IPTV player Zattoo passed the European Championship stress test. Despite a massive surge in viewers during the first weekend of games, the service operated largely without a hitch. The newly launched version also adds fourteen channels and a few new features.
The Internet television player Zattoo has passed the European Championship endurance test. Despite a massive rush of viewers on the first match weekend of the European Football Championships, the program functioned largely without disruption with only rare losses in picture quality. As the additional load was foreseeable, Zattoo launched an updated version of the player five days before the start of the European Championships, which uses resources far more efficiently and is more scalable, and invested in new hardware to ensure that the expected viewers do not miss any ball passes, serves or pit stops, according to the press release on Tuesday. The new version 3.2.0 also comes with three new features: In addition to English, the IPTV software is now also available in German, French and Spanish, teletext is supported and TV channels can be moved and grouped.
With the new version, fourteen channels have also been added in Switzerland: Bloomberg (in French and Italian), BR, Das Vierte, HR, MDR, NDR, Phoenix, RBB, SR, SWR, Tele5, The Poker Channel and TierTV.Bloggers and users of social networks such as Facebook or Bebo can now also load a widget onto their blog or page to let readers and friends know what they are currently watching on Zattoo. A click on the widget starts the player on the corresponding channel.
