Netflix boss Reed Hastings claims that on-line giant Amazon is losing between $500 million and $1 billion acquiring and streaming video content. Hastings told Dow Jones he has calculated the numbers based on the established cost of content deals fought over when Netflix directly competes with Amazon for content rights. Netflix is on record as […]
HBO, who invested over A$10 million into Australian movie hire Company Quickflix, has reportedly walked away from the struggling company days after its shares were suspended on the ASX. Last week Quickflix was placed into voluntary suspension with the company indicating they were set to announce new investors. To date this has not happened. HBO […]
Telia, TeliaSonera’s subsidiary in Sweden, now includes HBO in its TV offering. Telia’s near 500,000 TV customers can watch new episodes of the channel’s popular series subtitled in Swedish within one day after the original broadcast. The price for HBO is 79 SEK per month and users can watch it on TV as well as […]
Following the move by Carl Icahn to acquire 10 per cent of its stock, Netflix has announced that its Board of Directors adopted a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan” or “Plan”) and declared a dividend distribution of one right (“Right”) for each outstanding share of Netflix common stock. The Rights Plan is intended to […]
FOX Movies Premium (FMP), Star Chinese Movies (SCM) and now TV have joined forces to bring to viewers a better premium movie channel experience through the introduction of a new and exclusive Play service in Hong Kong. now TV customers subscribing to FMP and SCM will be able to access the FOX Movies Play and […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates analysing broadband and pay-TV services, business models, and consumer preferences indicates that broadband penetration is above 70 per cent in several Western European countries, and up to 30 per cent of the broadband population in some countries prefer PCs over TVs for watching video, with a strong corresponding preference […]
Pizza delivery company Domino’s Pizza has teamed up with independent filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate UK to become the first UK company to deliver movies alongside pizza with its brand new Domino’s Pizza Box Office service. Customers can now order their favourite pizza and a whole host of popular films all online via the Domino’s website. […]
Quickflix, the Australian movie streaming and rental company, delivered stronger growth in the September quarter as it resumed a focus on subscriber acquisition following its successful rollout of digital streaming over previous quarters. Whilst continuing to invest in new content and integration of its pay-per-view and subscription streaming service in new consumer devices, the company […]
Data from Nielsen, ComScore and analysts at Wedbush Securities suggests that viewers are falling out of love with Hulu. In August the number of hours spent watching Hulu was some 65 million hours. However, last March the total was 156 million hours. Meanwhile a report from TBI claims Hulu’s subscriber count fell from a ‘high’ […]
ITV has unveiled its new ITV Player offering viewers the chance to rent content from ITV’s vast archive of programming, free from advertisements. Traditional catch-up content remains available at no charge, and will sit alongside the archive content. Effective immediately, every visitor to the ITV Player portal will be offered the chance to use and […]