KVH Link
The life of a commercial seafarer no longer means being disconnected from life on shore. Improve your crew recruitment and retention and improve crew wellbeing with best-in-class content, including the latest movies, television, sports, news, music radio, podcasts, karaoke, and more.
KVH Link brings seafarers treasured connections to home, easily and affordably, through daily news updates, favourite movies, TV, music and the thrill of sports.
- Easy to active and install. Bringing KVH Link content onboard is simple and quick thanks to over-the-air activation.
- Licensed and cybersecure. KVH Link content is licensed from copyright holders for crew viewing.
- Cost-effective bundles designed to suit your crew’s entertainment preferences without impacting your data plan.
- Versatile options enable group viewing via a laptop or via the KVH Link Android or iOS smartphone apps.
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Seafarers live in a very unique environment, so for them to have entertainment onboard is something that brings the morale of the crew high, allow them to have a good evening after a hard days work and allow them to be more productive the next day.
Capt. Belal Ahmed, Western Shipping
Benefits of KVH Link
Wellbeing
“Internet connectivity has been said to have a strong effect on the mental well-being of seafarers.”
– ILO (International Labour Organization)
Recruitment
“The access to Internet connection aboard a ship is a significant factor for young seafarers’ decisions to pursue this career.”
– ILO (International Labour Organization)
Retention
“Inadequate communication with their family and friends,” is reported as a major reason crew abandon their career at sea.
– Safety-4-Sea
Easy to Install
Bringing KVH Link content onboard is simple and efficient, thanks to over-the-air activation. Supported on KVH VSAT antennas, the only additional hardware is the Link Set-top Box, which crew can install themselves.
Great Content
There is always something new to discover as KVH Link content is constantly refreshed with the latest releases. Viewing is unlimited and KVH Link can be experienced by crew, individually or in a group; any time.
Cybersecure
KVH Link content is licensed for crew use in compliance with international copyright laws. Our patented IP-MobileCast™ service reduces cyberthreats by securely delivering encrypted content onboard.
Improve Wellbeing & Crew Retention
with the Best Content
Experience the Many Benefits of NEWSlink
Keep your crew up to date with news from home and around the world, provided by NEWSlink™, the leading international news service for seafarers. NEWSlink delivers daily news reviews, updates and special interest items in video, audio, and text, with content from a wide range of countries and languages.
- Vessels equipped with KVH VSAT service can receive NEWSlink at sea, via IP-MobileCast™, without affecting the communications system’s performance or monthly data usage
- Our traditional printed NEWSlink service offers an extensive choice of daily newspapers for vessels with low bandwidth. Papers are sent directly to your ships via email for easy onboard printing in standard A4 format to distribute amongst your crew
- A simple, effective daily crew welfare service, proven to help lift crew morale by delivering news from home and around the world
- Supports seafarer manpower strategies and crew retention; helps to fulfill MLC-2006 compliance and make you an employer of choice
- Valued by seafarers for more than 30 years
- Printed news in 65+ national seafarer news editions in 20+ languages, plus monthly special interest papers
MOVIElink
Delight in blockbuster films delivered as soon as they are available, sometimes while they are still in cinemas, and months before they can be streamed at home. MOVIElink’s™ expanding library of films includes both the biggest Hollywood hits along with regional content curated with seafarers in mind.
Note: * Designates big hit
Adarna Gang | *Adik Sa’Yo | The Adults | Alex/October | Al-Wadi | Always |
Amelia 2.0 | Amsterdam | Antlers | Armageddon Time | Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Asteroid City |
Avatar: The Way of Water | Bandit | The Banshees of Inisherin | Barbarian | The Black Demon | Black Lotus |
The Black Phone | BlackBerry | Bloody Hell | The Boogeyman | *Bottoms | Bros |
*The Burial | Case 347 | Champions | Cherry | Chevalier (2022) | *Chhello Show |
Christmas With the Campbells | Closed for Storm | Corner Office | The Covenant | *The Creator | Creed III |
Dealer | Dealing With Dad | Dear Zoe | Death on the Nile | La dernière reine | *Dodo |
*Dream Scenario | Drishyam | Dumb Money | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Electric Jesus | Empire of Light |
En amont du fleuve | The Enforcer | The Exchange | The Exorcist: Believer | The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir | The Fabelmans |
Faith Based | Fall | Fast X | Ferrari: Race to Immortality | Fisherman’s Friends: One and All | *Five Nights at Freddy’s |
Free Guy | Gentleman | God’s Country | Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear | Gulltransporten | Halik sa Hangin |
Halloween Ends | *A Haunting in Venice | *The Holdovers | The Illusion of Control | India Sweets and Spices | *Infinity Pool |
Inland | Inside | Ittu Si Baat | Jurassic World Dominion | Kannum Kannum Kollaiadithaal | Kasal |
Keluarga Cemara 2 | Kevin Bridges: The Overdue Catch-Up | The King’s Man | The Last Duel | The Last Five Years (2022) | The Last Voyage of the Demeter |
The Locksmith | Locusts | Lucknow Central | M3GAN | Magic Mountains | Mary Kom |
Master Gardener | Mean Spirited | Medieval | The Menu | The Merciful | A Million Miles Away |
*Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Motichoor Chaknachoor | *My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | The Night House | Nightmare Alley | Noise |
Nope | The Offering | On the Line | Oppenheimer | Paint | Panama |
Patchwork | Plague | The Pod Generation | Poker Face | Polite Society | Prasini thalassa |
Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story | Prime Orbit | Prípad mrtvého neboztíka | Prisoner’s Daughter | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Queen |
Renfield | Reroute | *The Retirement Plan | Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Righteous Thieves | River Wild |
Rogue Agent | Ron’s Gone Wrong | Rooftop | Ruby’s Choice | Saf | Savage Salvation |
See How They Run | Shotgun Wedding | Something from Tiffany’s | Sound of Freedom | Spinning Gold | Steel Country |
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | Strays | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Surrounded | T.I.M. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem |
*Theater Camp | There Are No Saints | This is Me | A Thousand and One | Ticket to Paradise | Till |
To Catch a Killer | Tokyo Revengers | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Violent Night | The Whale | Where’s Rose |
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TVlink
Enjoy full seasons of the most popular hit television series so crews can enjoy the best entertainment from home.
Note: * Designates big hit
700 Sharks |
*Adrishya: True Stories of Indian Spies |
Asteroid Chasers |
Balearic’s Wild Secrets |
Beyond the Dark |
Building Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Building Greener Cities |
Cheetah, Hunter Becomes Prey |
Cinquante nuances de requins |
*Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks |
Dark Winds |
Date with Nature |
*De la Soul – Live |
The Deep Med |
Doomsday |
Dr Jack and Mr Nicholson |
En Immersion |
Fantastic Mr Murray |
The Feast of the Killer Whales |
The Fire Under the Sea |
Firebite |
Girl Gamer |
*The Great Escape |
*Her – Live |
The Holiday |
Inside Web3 Gaming |
Interview With the Vampire |
The Kapil Sharma Show |
*The Last Kingdom |
Mad Mel and Mr Gibson |
Magical Egypt |
Moonhaven |
The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin |
Namaste Yoga |
*Notorious: Happy Face Killer |
The Poles Revealed |
Resident Alien |
The Reunion |
*Sum 41 – Live |
Travel by Dart |
The Underwater Volcano |
Van Damme: Split Personality |
The Latest in Top Sports from Around the World
- Game highlights, news, analysis, plays of the week, interviews, sports shows, and more
- Licensed content from leading teams and networks from around the world
- SPORTSlink Stats offers detailed sports statistics at the league and event level
- A variety of sports to satisfy all crew members, including basketball, football, cricket, boxing, tennis, and more
- A simple, proven, and effective crew welfare benefit
SPORTSlink Stats
SPORTSlink Stats offers crew a deep dive into sports statistics at the league and event level.
MUSIClink
KVH Link offers more than 15 genres of fresh music radio, podcasts, entertainment news, karaoke, and more, easily played via the streamlined, user-friendly interface, and all constantly updated. Some examples:
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Don’t Miss Out on Great Entertainment
Don’t have a KVH VSAT system onboard?
Have a fleet with multiple VSAT providers?
KVH Link content is also available via other delivery mechanisms.
The Power of Multicast Technology
IP-MobileCast™ is KVH’s patented content delivery service that uses multicast technology to deliver our KVH Link content efficiently so you can provide entertainment, news and sports for crew with no impact on your monthly data allowance.
- KVH Link is delivered by our unique IP-MobileCast (IPMC) multicast service to KVH VSAT antennas. This enables KVH to deliver large amounts of secure content to many ships at once, over unused bandwidth, without slowing down onboard Internet speeds or registering usage against your monthly data plan.
- IP-MobileCast employs an “over-the-top” delivery mechanism using idle network bandwidth and a separate data stream. As a result, KVH can deliver as much as 500 GB of news, sports and entertainment content per month to each vessel without using the ship’s data plan or affecting onboard speeds.
- Content is cached on KVH’s TracPhone Integrated CommBox Modem (ICM) or TracNet Hub+ where it is accessible to crew via TVs in the common areas as well as via personal devices for latency-free access for ships with up to 50 crew.
- Convenient free apps for Android and iOS, and the IP-MobileCast website allow your crew to view all content on their own smartphone, tablet, or notebook as well.
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