Amazon has introduced the Amazon Instant Video App for iPad, enabling customers to stream or download Amazon Instant Video movies and TV episodes from their video library directly on their iPad. The app also makes more than 20,000 titles from Prime Instant Video available to Prime members such as hit TV shows like Glee and […]
DirecTV’s Brazilian ‘Sky’ DTH service is adding HBOs ‘Go’ broadband service in August. The service will be free to DirecTV subscribers provided they are taking HBO’s Max premium channels. HBO says it is also talking to other regional players such as Net and GVT about tapping into ‘Go’ and a rights-cleared library of about 1000 […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from two recent video reports – VoD and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscriber – which tracks equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid set-top boxes and OTT media servers. “2012 will be […]
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, has confirmed a Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) deal to give subscribers in the UK and Germany streaming access to titles from Miramax, the independent studio with a renowned library of critically-acclaimed films. Beginning this summer, LOVEFiLM subscribers in both the UK and Germany will have instant, on-demand access to Miramax […]
Hollywood studios continue to see a slow turnaround in home video sales after a seven-year decline, as consumers increase the numbers of movies and TV shows they stream online and buy more HD Blu-ray discs as DVDs fall from favour. The Digital Entertainment Group, a trade group whose members include studios and electronics companies in […]
Viewster and Warner Bros have signed a distribution deal that will see the Studio’s current releases and brand new blockbusters, as well as around 1000 catalogue titles made available via Viewster’s VoD platform. This two-part deal will make some of Warner Bros’ most popular content available to Viewster users in German-speaking territories – beginning with […]
Sky has confirmed that catch-up content from Channel 5 will become available on its TV on-demand service Sky Anytime+. Launching into the service later on this year, content from Channel 5 will be available alongside catch-up content from the BBC and ITV, all of which will be offered alongside the best in on-demand content from […]
Netflix Q2 earnings plummeted 91 per cent as the online movie rental company posted higher subscription costs, though subscriber rolls kept improving. The company, which provides streaming movies over the Internet as well as DVDs by mail, added 530,000 US subscribers to its online video service from the previous quarter, bringing the total to 23.9 […]
Sensio Technologies has announced a 3D VoD licensing agreement with Starz Digital Media -the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz Media – to make select 3D movies available for on-demand rental on Sensio’s 3DGO! service. Available in autumn 2012 across the US, 3DGO! is a dedicated 3D transactional VoD service that will offer a […]
The TV crisis is intensifying in Spain with a drop of 16.4 per cent in advertising to €419.9 million in the first quarter of 2012. Public TV channels took the worst part of it with a fall of 30.55 per cent to €36.1 million against €51.9 million the same period last year. Prívate TV channels […]