Netflix’s recent launch in the UK “greatly exceeded expectations”, the group said as it reported fourth-quarter profits that beat analyst estimates and boosted its shares by almost 16 per cent. Reed Hastings, chief executive, said the company was back on track, with total Netflix subscribers to its streaming and DVD services rising to 24.4 million, […]
FremantleMedia Enterprises has announced a digital licensing agreement with Netflix to bring a raft of classic comedy and drama titles to Netflix members across the UK and Ireland. Netflix has acquired 115 hours of FME’s extensive programming catalogue including Australian crime series, The Strip; and popular drama, Falcon Beach.
Avail-TVN, the independent digital media services company in North America, has announced that Bermuda CableVision has become the latest CALA-based service provider to move its VoD service to Avail-TVN. Bermuda CableVision is the island’s largest provider of digital cable TV and is the only supplier of high-definition TV in Bermuda. Avail-TVN is delivering VoD content […]
BBC Worldwide has selected Comcast Media Center (CMC) to deliver programming from CBeebies, its Spanish-language TV channel for pre-school children, via the CMC’s VoD content distribution platform, the two companies have confirmed. CMC’s VoD distribution encompasses cable systems across multiple MSOs serving more than 56 million VoD-enabled households in the US and Canada.
LOVEFiLM has announced its latest deal to bring its streaming technology to LG’s Smart TV series. Designed to work in partnership with LOVEFiLM ‘s recently-launched Instant service – a streaming-only version of its traditional discs-by-post film rental offering, – the deal marks the first time LG Smart TV users have been offered a film and […]
US consumer rental of movies in DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats fell by 11 per cent in 2011, versus the prior year, and the landscape of retailers has shifted dramatically, according to market research company The NPD Group. The leader in physical-disc rentals was Redbox, whose unit volume increased by 29 per cent year over […]
Multi-region digital movie retailer Acetrax is to launch a TVoD (Transactional VoD) movies service across the UK, France, Italy and Germany via the Inview Technology connected TV service this spring. The Acetrax movies App will offer viewers using the Inview platform access to an unrivalled range of blockbuster movies, without being tied in to a […]
Ofcom has backed VoD regulator ATVOD’s ruling that three Viacom companies – Nickelodeon , Paramount and MTV Networks – are responsible for the VoD content of Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV respectively on the Virgin Media platform. The broadcasters had notified ATVOD last year that they considered Virgin Media to have “editorial responsibility” for the […]
Telefónica has signed a deal with Sony Pictures to show all new film releases on its VoD service in Latin America, in addition to a wide selection of catalogue content and TV series. This content (in addition to trailers and advertising material) will be distributed in the Latin American countries where the Telefónica group operates […]
Broadpeak, provider of content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VoD) servers for cable, IPTV, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, has topped the European video-on-demand server software rankings in the latest Multimedia Research Group (MRG) IPTV Market Leaders Report. This report, covering the Autumn/Winter 2011 time period, gives Broadpeak its second successive number-one ranking among IPTV […]