Starting with a safety video, announcement of weather, fire safety guidelines and then entertainment-of-choice at the click of a button, getting onto a bus may soon resemble the experiences of long-haul flying.
A city-based company, Travelling Talkies, has launched a mobile entertainment system that has been tweaked for long-haul buses. “Just get into one of our app-enabled buses and see how it gets transformed into a flight!” says Naveen Krishnaswamy, founder of the three-year-old company.
The app can be connected to the touch screen on high-end buses. The three-year-old Travelling Talkies has been in the business of providing ‘info-driven platforms’ in buses. After downloading the app ‘Touring Talkies iPES (intelligent Personal Entertainment System)’, one can access film music, movies, TV shows, books and cartoons on touch-screen devices installed on the bus.
The app offers three choices: Elite, Superlite and Mobility. Elite allows access to movies and television shows. In Superlite, images on the screen are controlled by the bus attendant.
The personalised high-end ‘Mobility’ allows passengers access to local Wi-Fi on the bus. Nearly 150 buses with ‘Touring Talkies’ ply on the roads today and the number is expected to cross a thousand by year-end. The company’s tie-up with content houses for Hindi, Kannada and Tamil film music has given them access to MP3 recordings of S.D. Burman, A.R. Rehman and Yesudas.
