Australian telco Telstra is to axe its BigPond movies rental service. Telstra says the service will end in September. In BigPond’s place comes Quickflix, an Australia-based service, which has acquired BigPond’s library of “DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and equipment”. Telstra will also refer BigPond clients who want to rent online movies to Quickflix. Quickflix Founder and […]
Bulgarian operator M-Tel has expanded its IPTV portfolio with the addition of a movie rental service. Renting a movie for a 24-hour period costs from BGN 1.99 per film. A total of 50 titles are currently available, with M-Tel planning to add 600 new titles a year . All customers who subscribe to M-Tel’s IPTV […]
China’s Youku has agreed with Warner Bros Entertainment’s local joint venture to offer pay per view movies on its newly launched online paid content platform. Under a three-year agreement with Warner Bros, Youku will add between 400 to 450 Warner Bros movies to its Youku Premium library. Youku Premium, which was officially this week, began […]
As promised BT Vision customers can now watch BBC shows on demand, using the new BBC iPlayer through their TVs. The launch of BBC’s on demand service gives BT Vision customers the opportunity to access more than 400 hours of BBC programming. This replaces the smaller selection of BBC programmes previously available on BT Vision’s […]
Sony movies have been pulled from Netflix’s online streaming service as a result of what Netflix describes as a “temporary contract issue” between Sony Corp. and its pay-TV distributor, Starz. Pauline Fischer, VP of Content Acquisition, said June 17th in a blog post to subscribers that the “two valued partners” were working through their differences. […]
Senior execs have used the NCTA in Chicago to play down the cord cutting threat that Netflix poses. “Our industry has always been about new content. Netflix is primarily a service that provides library programming,” said Philippe Dauman, chief executive of Viacom. Robert Marcus, chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable was even more bullish, […]
Best Buy is bringing its CinemaNow online video download service to Canada later this summer, offering users the ability to buy or rent movies online and adding another competitor to Canada’s growing digital media market. Best Buy and Future Shop intend to launch the service sometime in August with a library of more than 10,000 […]
LoveFilm and The Walt Disney Company Germany have signed a Transactional Video on Demand and Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) feature film streaming deal. German members of LoveFilm, streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by post—will be able to rent and stream a selection of titles from Walt Disney’s movie […]
HBO Central Europe has launched HBO GO in Hungary, following launches of the service in Poland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Romania, continuing the rollout of HBO GO across the region. From June 6th HBO GO will be available to subscribers of TARR Kft, Tolna, Somogy, Baranya, Bács-Kiskun, Fejér, Zala and Veszprém who have […]
HBO will begin picking up modest gains in subscribers through 2015, according to new IHS Screen Digest research. As a result of this increase, and with total net revenue rising at a 1.5 per cent compound annual growth rate through 2015, Screen Digest estimates total net revenue per average subscriber per month for HBO and […]