The BBC is reportedly developing a new scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will compete with iTunes. BBC executive wants to make all its shows available as download-to-own (DTO) at prices including £1.89 per show, under a scheme called Project Barcelona. […]
Following the suggestion made the previous afternoon by BSkyB’s Chief Finance Officer Andrew Griffith that the broadcaster’s forthcoming OTT service – to be available with no minimum contract and flexible pricing – could feature pay-as you go options, Sky has revealed its latest initiative to give Sky homes even more flexibility and choice over how […]
According to a new report released by TDG, Making Ad-Supported VoD Work, video-on-demand services provided by PayTV operators should be generating significantly higher viewing and advertising revenue. The failure to accomplish this is a reflection of VoD’s inadequate advertising support and awkward programme guides that limit availability and viewing of ad-supported video-on-demand content. According to […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced that its Premium Play service will be available for the iPad from April. The service provides access to over 2,000 TV programmes that can be watched on a TV, a computer or an Xbox console. Launched in November 2011, the Premium broadband service has now been running for 100 […]
B.net, Croatia’s leading cable and Internet operator and SeaChange International’s video-on-demand aggregator subsidiary On Demand Group (ODG) have confirmed the launch of subscription on demand (SVOD) services. The service builds on the successful launch of the transactional video on demand movie service launched by B.net in December. The new SVOD service will allow B.net consumers […]
Netflix will be available on Sony’s new game console Playstation Vita from launch. The Vita is the successor to the Playstation Portable and the carriage agreement will initially cover Netflix’s subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America. “We are very excited that Netflix is available on PS Vita at launch,” said Greg Peters, vice […]
US cable communications giant Comcast is taking on online movie and TV service Netflix by launching Xfinity Streampix, a new subscription video service that enables the operator’s Xfinity video customers instantly to view favourite movies and TV shows in and out of the home, including numerous past seasons of current hit shows and full series, […]
Netflix customer satisfaction plunged in the fourth quarter, a reflection of consumer anger over rising prices and changes to its subscription plans, according to a survey. Satisfaction with Netflix slid 14 per cent to 74 from a year earlier on a scale of 0 to 100, according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index. That was […]
BBC Worldwide has become the first British distributor to license content to Hulu in Japan. The multi- year agreement will initially see around 600 hours of BBC programming made available on the multi-device platform, effective immediately. The deal represents the largest volume of BBC Worldwide content on any platform in Japan, with titles licensed across […]
The window for pay-TV operators to control the video-on-demand movie rental market is still open, but may not stay so for much longer, suggests market research company The NPD Group. According to NPD, current video-on-demand (VOD) market for paid movie rentals is ruled by pay-TV services, with revenues that reached $1.3 billion in 2011. The […]