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 […]
The growth rate of catch-up services is slowing down in the UK, according to Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report. The number viewing TV on a PC-delivered catch-up service increased by just 3 per cent year-on-year to 29 per cent for the first quarter of 2012 as catch-up services become increasingly available via connected TV. The […]
BBC Worldwide has revealed that the launch of the iPlayer in 16 countries has seen the app downloaded one million times, and that global trials will now be expanded into the autumn. The trial app was launched in July 2011 and offers users outside of the UK “the best of the BBC’s content” for €49.99 […]
Comcast and Scripps Networks Interactive have reached a long-term agreement to expand their relationship in bringing Scripps’ popular television networks and their award-winning shows to Comcast’s Xfinity TV customers throughout the US. The multi-year arrangement covers distribution via Comcast’s linear and on-demand platforms and makes Scripps’ content available to Xfinity TV customers through online, mobile, […]
UK broadcaster BSkyB has revealed launch details of NOW TV, its Internet TV service that it says will give more choice for consumers via flexible payment options. NOW TV will launch July 17th initially with Sky Movies – followed later this year by Sky Sports – available across a wide range of Internet-connected devices. Available […]