Australia’s penchant for pirated content may have inadvertently scored the country a better deal on Netflix pricing, judging by comments from its chief financial officer, David Wells. In a call to investors, Wells said the company reduced the price of subscriptions to its video streaming service in countries with a high prevalence of piracy in order […]
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, believes a global video-streaming service would cut down on piracy considerably. According to Overclocked3D, the Netflix boss is in favour of a worldwide service because it would remove the incentive to use a VPN, eliminating the problem at its root. “The VPN thing is a small little asterisk compared […]
German VoD service maxdome has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for the digital rights to more than 700 TV series and movies. The deal will see around 130 movies and TV series from the studio being added each year to the maxdome package. Titles include Tarantino movie Django Unchained and TV series The […]
maxdome, the German VoD service, has agreed a deal with The Walt Disney Company for the rights to a range of blockbuster films and new seasons of hit series, episodes of which will be made available soon after their first run. The agreement provides maxdome subscribers new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Criminal Minds and […]
Ricky Gervais’ new movie Special Correspondents will debut exclusively on Netflix in 2016. Gervais wrote and directed the movie, which, according to the synopsis, stars Eric Bana as “a struggling New York-based radio journalist, whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line, he fakes front-line war reports from the […]
Sling TV and HBO have confirmed that Sling TV will be the first live Internet TV service to offer linear and VoD content from HBO in the US. HBO will be available in time for the Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley season premieres on April 12th. Sling TV with HBO will be available on […]
US streaming site Hulu has acquired the exclusive SVoD rights for hip-hop drama Empire via a deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV. All episodes from the first season were already available on the service, but with the new deal all future episodes will now be exclusively hosted on the site. The show’s first season finale […]
Just one month after its debut Amazon has confirmed it has greenlit a second season of its first original hour-long drama series Bosch. Based on Michael Connelly’s internationally best-selling Harry Bosch book series, Bosch has achieved the biggest debut weekend among all Amazon Original Series and is the most-watched title on Amazon Prime Instant Video, […]
upc Cablecom is expanding its MyPrime SVoD service with content from Constantin Film. The Swiss operator is also making MyPrime available to new subscribers at a trial price of CHF9.95 (€9.30) for 30 days. The Constantin Film deal gives MyPrime users access to movies such as Lost in Translation, Resident Evil and Step Up as […]
Sling TV has released its app for Xbox One, the first gaming console to support the live, OTTTV service. Xbox One joins a constellation of other devices that support Sling TV, including Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick; current-generation Roku players and Roku TV models; Android and iOS devices; and Macs and PCs. “Sling […]