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Cineplex launches DTO service

Cineplex Entertainment has revealed movies can now be digitally downloaded into Canadian homes with Download To Own (DTO) and VOD service from the online Cineplex Store. New releases will be available for digital download on the same day they are released on DVD and Blu-ray. Effective immediately, digital downloads purchased from Cineplex.com can be played […]

November 19, 2010

Hulu Plus cuts subs price at launch

Hulu has confirmed that its premium Hulu Plus is now available to everyone (in the US) to sign-up and use and it is dropping the trial price of $9.99 a month to $7.99 and will be crediting those who took it up at the old price. US financial press has reported Hulu is considering an […]

November 17, 2010

ITV.com video views fall

ITV blames the after effects of last year’s Susan Boyle boom in traffic for a year-on-year decline in ITV.com’s video viewing figures for the first nine months of 2010. ITV.com’s video views fell by 6 per cent. The broadcaster revealed that average monthly video views have fallen by about 1 million year on year in […]

November 17, 2010

Research: On-demand boosts live TV

Increasingly, the main reason people watch on-demand TV is to avoid falling behind with the linear TV schedules, which have been attracting record viewing figures in recent years, according to research published by Thinkbox and Decipher. The ‘Tellyport’ research questioned a sample of 3,000 people in the UK and employed a mixture of quantitative and […]

November 16, 2010

Comcast Xfinity TV app

Comcast has unveiled its new Xfinity TV app, which will enable Xfinity TV digital customers to watch TV shows and movies directly on the iPad either at home or on-the-go in the coming weeks. The Xfinity TV app is a TV guide and a mobile video player all in one. It enables customers to change […]

November 16, 2010

MTG OnDemand on LG TVs

Modern Times Group (MTG) has entered into a strategic cooperation with LG Electronics. Viasat is making its Viasat OnDemand Internet pay-TV services available directly on all LG TV sets in the Nordic region enabled with NetCast functionality effective immediately. The OTT solution is available to customers with Viasat OnDemand accounts by simply connecting the TV […]

November 15, 2010

Netflix signs with Level 3 CDN

Level 3 Communications has been selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix to support the company’s streaming functionality and to support storage for the entire Netflix library of content. As a result of the deal, Level 3 has accelerated plans to further invest in its CDN capacity. Level 3 […]

November 12, 2010

Accedo brings Viasat VOD to LG’s conTV

Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV, has revealed that Viasat, the leading free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia, has selected Accedo to help develop, test and launch its Viasat OnDemand application for the LG NetCast platform. Viasat OnDemand is already available for consumers to watch via the Internet […]

November 12, 2010

Demand Five on Virgin Media

Virgin Media has confirmed a multiscreen deal with Channel 5 to bring programming from all of Five’s linear TV channels to its TV, online and mobile video on demand platforms from November. The addition of Demand Five to its TV On Demand service at no extra cost to customers makes Virgin Media the only TV […]

November 11, 2010

FiOS TV debuts Flex View

Verizon FiOS TV has launched its Flex View platform allowing subscribers access to the telco’s VOD offering outside the home on a variety of portable devices, including laptops, smart phones and tablets. Initially, users can download for purchase or rent over 1,400 movie titles on Flex View, with the amount of content growing to 2,000 […]

November 11, 2010