LoveFilm has struck a five-year exclusive deal with Entertainment One UK (eOne), which will bring movies including The Twilight Saga to the company’s online movie-streaming service. The tie-up means LoveFilm members can watch new and up-and-coming releases from the independent film distributor’s catalogue via LoveFilm’s distribution platform. All LoveFilm members that have a premium subscription […]
Netflix has hiked monthly prices for customers who use both its mail and online services, a move that will probably steer users toward its growing Internet streaming service. It is raising by 60 per cent the monthly price of a plan that lets subscribers watch unlimited movies and video online and get DVDs by mail. […]
Croatian private broadcaster Nova TV has launched a VoD portal called Oyo. For a fee, customers can view over 100 movies , as well as various TV series, before they are broadcast on terrestrial TV. After registration, Oyo users can also access a variety of video content, shows and series from the archives of the […]
Online DVD rental company Quickflix has signed a digital distribution deal with Sony Australia, as it moves to roll out a subscription streaming service. The deal will allow Quickflix to steam movies to every Sony Bravia compatible device. These also include some Blu Ray players and home theatre centres, as well as Sony VAIO computers […]
NDS has revealed that BSkyB has deployed a customised implementation of NDS’ advanced set-top box software for its Sky+HD boxes. As well as enabling the launch of Sky’s Anytime+ VoD service, the component based architecture of the set-top box software enables Sky to evolve the complete end-user experience to meet changing customer needs faster than […]
BBC Worldwide is to make Doctor Who available to rent on Facebook – a first for the broadcaster. It will launch digitally-remastered archive Doctor Who shows on Facebook, using the social network’s credits payment system. The broadcaster has selected a total of nine stories, taken from a range of different series, and bundled them in […]
There’s a cooling of consumer interest in purchasing films online, hitting the industry’s hopes that digital sales could eventually replace plummeting DVD revenues. DVDs were Hollywood’s most important revenue stream for most of the past decade, generating more than $20 billion a year. But sales of DVDs have collapsed, falling more than 25 per cent […]
YouView has lost support from Sony which said that it would not be linking to the service in its connected Bravia TV sets. It is a blow to the BBC originated service as it tries to strike deals with connected TV makers. The VoD service was supposed to launch this summer, but now that start […]
Hulu expects its number of paid subscribers to top one million by summer’s end, earlier than previously forecast, says its chief executive Jason Kilar. He added the company remains on track for $500 million revenue this year. The service currently has about 875,000 subs and this is already over one million if you count those […]
DVRs have entered the mainstream and their increasing presence in the home means that by 2015 Screen Digest expects 17 per cent of US viewing and more than 14 per cent of UK viewing will be non-linear, either from DVRs or on-demand non-linear ‘transmissions’. However, the report also cites some caveats: For example, in Germany, […]