A fifth of subscribers to Sky Movies – at least 891,000 UK households – hadn't watched a single movie on the service in an entire month, according to a YouGov survey on subscription movie viewing habits conducted on behalf of BT Vision. 50 per cent of Sky customers surveyed spend more than £45 (E50.6) on […]
Viacom is sympathetic to Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” says CEO Philippe Dauman who said the company was “very open” to experimenting with models that would allow cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers to view cable content online. “We think it has to be seamless to the consumer, and we’re working [with the distributors] on the […]
Walt Disney Co was considering moves like creating a subscription-based online video club to capture online consumers as well as revenue that is being lost to piracy, Chief Executive Robert Iger said. Iger told analysts at the Deutsche Bank conference “We’ve also seen a pretty dramatic shift in how people consume entertainment with computers and […]
Time Warner is developing an initiative dubbed TV Everywhere that will allow viewers to watch networks such as CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT online – as long as they can prove they subscribe to cable, satellite or a telecom TV service. “If you want to watch your favourite TV network or shows through broadband on […]
The BBC's plans to create a "next-generation Freeview" – along with ITV and BT – the so-called Project Canvas – will face regulators' scrutiny as they will seek to establish it isn't the recently banned Project Kangaroo by another name. As well as high-definition Freeview broadcasts, Canvas will bring on-demand viewing to the television, via […]
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. internet-enabled households subscribe to premium entertainment services that offer DVD delivery, music downloads or video games on demand, according to a report released Wednesday by market research firm The NPD Group. The reason, according to NPD, is that consumers today are looking for value. "For just a few dollars a […]
Broadband has transformed video viewing habits in Western Europe, where over 20 per cent of broadband households have watched a film or TV programme online in the past six months, according to international research firm Parks Associates, whose The Impact of Online Video in Europe , addresses these changes in viewing habits. European consumers are […]
Microsoft is reportedly holding talks with the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV to launch an Internet TV service that could see Project Kangaroo resurrected under the MSN brand. Speaking to Revolution, Ashley Highfield, who was with the BBC and then Kangaroo before becoming Microsoft’s UK managing director, confirmed that the computer giant is working on […]
Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, has surpassed 10 million subscribers, a milestone that reflects the widespread and growing appeal of the company’s service. Netflix members can get unlimited DVDs delivered to their homes and can instantly watch movies and TV episodes streamed over the Internet to their TVs and computers. In crossing […]
Cable operator UPC Netherlands' video-on-demand service saw over 34 million requests from subscribers last year, the first full year of the service's operation. UPC said that about 50% of customers used the service on a monthly basis in the second half of the year, up from 40% in the first half. At the end of […]