Billing itself as a “game-changer” in the sector, Wuaki.tv from the Japanese organisation Rakuten Japan, is a hybrid business model offering users a choice of a la carte rental of the latest movies and TV series, or a monthly subscription to the Wuaki Choice service, providing limitless streaming of a wide selection of film and […]
Kaleidescape has announced that the Kaleidescape Store, the online store that enables consumers to download movies with video and audio quality equal to Blu-ray Disc and DVD, is now available in Canada. The new service was launched in the US in December 2012, and in the UK in May 2013, and is initially backed by […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel, which launched its Foxtel Play OTT service to connected device mid-summer, is further strengthening its armoury against existing and potential subscription TV sector players by revealing details of a video-on-demand platform offering extensive movie content over the Internet. The new – dubbed ‘Presto’ – is a pre-emptive strike against mooted similar […]
Research from Nielsen estimates that 38 per cent of Americans now “use or subscribe to” Netflix – a significant increase on the 2012 figure of 31 per cent. The findings from the US research and ratings firm also reveal that 18 per cent of Americans use Hulu, up 6 per cent on last year, with […]
Live TV-streaming service TVCatchup has introduced a catch-up service, for the UK’s four major TV broadcasters. Despite its name, TVCatchup previously only offered live TV streams after a legal challenge from UK broadcasters suspended its streaming-TV recording service. It has now added content listings for previously broadcast shows on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and […]
Movie and TV streaming service blinkbox is poised to kick off its biggest ever marketing and in-store blitz, highlighting the service’s ‘latest releases’ credentials versus rivals. The autumn offensive, which claims that blinkbox has ten times more of the latest blockbuster movies than Netflix and LOVEFiLM Instant, launches with outdoor, radio and print advertising. It […]
Netflix has revealed that it tracks piracy sites to help decide which TV series and films it should add to its online streaming service. It gave Prison Break as an example of one programme it had bought as a consequence of using the strategy. Netflix’s vice president of content acquisition disclosed its use of the […]
IHS has published a report looking at trends in TV viewing across the US and major Western European markets. While broadcast TV viewing is still on the up across many countries (particularly recession-hit Italy and Spain), many of the increases in hours spent watching TV have been driven by time-shifted TV and on-demand usage. In […]
As online platforms such as Netflix and Hulu gain ground among mainstream consumers, some are poised to challenge traditional cable and satellite services as the default source for TV and movies, according to a new study – Decoding the Default – by Hub Entertainment Research. The study was conducted in July 2013, among 1,010 consumers […]
Sam Blackman, CEO and co-founder of Elemental Technologies, says the trends are aligning for the company’s solutions, with software, the cloud and IP delivery taking over from dedicated hardware chips, on-premise storage and processing, and legacy distribution. “Only Elemental takes advantage of these three trends, with the most powerful, off-the-shelf platforms in the industry,” he […]