MUMBAI: Travelxp opens a window to the world for the viewers of Slovakia and Czech Republic, through its fully localised launch on Slovak Telekom. The channel’s foray into Slovak is a very important step for the channel as it further expands its reach, strengthening its foothold in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region. This is the third language after Serbian & Croatian in which Travelxp is fully localised apart from the primary English feed.

With travel content filmed in more than 40 countries across the world with multicultural hosts from all over, Travelxp brings to the audience a never-before-seen experience of travelling from their homes.

“After localising the Travelxp service in the Czech language, our endeavour is to gradually showcase more content originating out of Slovakia and Czech Republic. Taking local content globally and getting global content locally is the core philosophy of Travelxp. We would be working with independent content producers in the region to have the local perspective as diversity of content is key to Travelxp’s offering,” said Travelxp Europe director Sumant Bahl.

The channel offers 100 per cent originally-produced premium travel. Lifestyle programming is being distributed to over a 50 million homes globally, with a classic mix of path-breaking travel and lifestyle content in High Definition and 4K.

Slovak Telekom marketing expert Andrej Miklanek said, “Telekom traditionally brings high-quality family and sports content to its customers. Enhancing the portfolio with Travelxp is another boost to the quality and attractiveness of our TV services.”
The channel has selected HEVC encoding with 10 bits os colour depth (one billion colours), at 50 frames per second.

It broadcasts in 10 bits REC 2020 colour space using the new HDR (high dynamic range) standard developed by the BBC and NHK that creates richer and more dynamic images by increasing the contrast ratio between the lightest and darkest areas of the screen and expanding the volume of colours displayed. This standard uses HLG (hybrid log-gamma) technology, enabling legacy standard dynamic (SDR) displays to decode the HDR standard.

Travelxp IFC Media MD Jozef Pipek said, “Our next goal is to develop also Travelxp 4K which can bring to audience unforgettable travel experiences in the highest picture quality”