LRG and IHG Managed Estate UK Invest  £9Million to Upgrade 59 UK Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza Hotels with Acentic Horizon High Speed Internet Access and Panorama HD iTV

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband services for the hotel industry, announced today that the InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) UK Managed Estate is the first hotel estate in the UK to implement Acentic Horizon High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) and Panorama High Definition (HD) across its property base to almost 11,000 rooms.

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December 1, 2010

Acentic Launches New Hotel TV User Interface To Drive Revenue and Improve Guest Experience

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband systems for the hotel industry, announced today the launch of its new “Core GUI”. Reflecting the latest expectations for the hotel in-room entertainment market and guests’ needs for easier, quicker navigation, the new guest user interface (GUI) will also assist in driving incremental revenue.Faster, more user-friendly icon-based navigation enhances communication and revenue potential for hotels.

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August 5, 2010

Acentic Partners with Filmbank to Help Hoteliers Increase Revenue and Raise Awareness of In-Room Movies on Demand and Digital TV

Acentic and Filmbank are working with hoteliers to develop movie marketing promotions such as branded check-in signage, key cards, TV banners, trailers, turndown cards and meal-deal promotions featuring new movies available on digital TV within the hotels. The latest movies are offered to hotels generally 10-12 weeks after cinema release, offering premieres to hotel guests before the movies are available on DVD or Pay TV in their homes. Promotional packages of movies from the world's biggest film studios drive occupancy and in-room spending.

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July 27, 2010

Hotel Broadband Access Sees Endless Flexibility, Integration and Revenue Generation with Launch of Acentic's Horizon

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband systems for the hotel industry, announced today that it has launched Horizon - its new high-speed Internet access (HSIA) solution for the hotel industry. The Acentic Horizon broadband solution, combined with Acentic’s Panorama® and Vision iTV systems, provides a bridge to the most flexible converged content strategy available for hoteliers.

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July 13, 2010

Acentic Announces Historic Partnership with Celtic Manor

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) systems over coaxial and IP networks for the hotel industry, announced today a new partnership with The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales.The Celtic Manor is a five star, 400-bedroom golf and spa resort built with three championship golf courses including the new Twenty Ten Course which will stage The 2010 Ryder Cup.

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July 01, 2010

Richard Robinson Named Chief Executive Officer of Acentic

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband systems for the hotel industry, announced today that Richard Robinson has been named chief executive officer, effective July 1st. Robinson is a 20-year veteran of the media industry, including 15 years in hotel television technology, and has been an executive director at Acentic since its founding in 2003.

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June 17, 2010

Acentic and Sky Deutschland Agree to a Marketing Partnership in the Hotel Industry

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) systems over coaxial and IP networks for the hotel industry and Sky Deutschland, announced today their partner agreement to provide the hotel industry with a fully integrated iTV system, state-of-the-art technology and premium TV channels. The aim of this partnership is to upgrade existing hotels currently equipped with Acentic's analogue systems in Germany and Austria.

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May 27, 2010

Acentic Allows Hotels to Gain Versatility for In-Room Entertainment Regardless of Network Infrastructure

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) systems for the hotel industry announced today that it has launched Panorama IP, which enables hotels with structured ethernet cabling to deliver an outstanding HD experience to guests in combination with Acentic's proven Panorama functionality.

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February 9, 2010

Acentic Opens Middle East Office

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) systems over coaxial and IP networks for the hotel industry announced today the opening of Acentic’s Middle East office. Acentic Middle East will employ 17 people, managing nine main affiliated distributors in the region with 50 employees in total.

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January 13, 2010

Acentic Acquired by PhilWeb Corporation and ISM Communications Corp

Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) systems for the hotel industry is pleased to announce the acquisition of the company by PhilWeb Corp. (WEB) and ISM Communications Corp. (ISM) which acquired a 65% stake in Acentic on January 11, 2010. The acquisition allows Acentic to further extend their digital TV and high speed internet access (HSIA) services throughout the European market and expand to the Asia-Pacific region, the fastest growing hotel market in the world

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