A day after announcing a major deal with Disney, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said they were determined to secure more exclusive programme rights and develop additional original content. With the Disney deal, Netflix beat out Starz, which currently has the pay-TV rights, for new titles from Disney. Harvey Weinstein, cofounder of The Weinstein […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has launched on the Nintendo Wii in the UK. The new app comes a year after gracing the Xbox 360 and two years after launching on the PS3. Wii owners can download the app from the Wii Shop Channel and can sign up for either a 30 day free trial or delve straight […]
Australia’s Quickflix has confirmed the “full support” of its biggest financial backer, HBO, and denied that the US film studio could redeem a $10 million investment. In a statement issued to the ASX, Quickflix said: “Quickflix confirms that the Board and management have the full support of its investor, HBO, to execute the restructuring plan […]
Mediaset’s on-demand offer, Premium Play, has surpassed one million users, of which 750,000 are active via an Internet connection. Premium Play, which launched in February 2011, is providing over 3,000 content (including football channels and HD) for subscribers of the pay-TV service Mediaset Premium, at no extra cost. The service has been averaging 10,000 new […]
Netflix boss Reed Hastings claims that on-line giant Amazon is losing between $500 million and $1 billion acquiring and streaming video content. Hastings told Dow Jones he has calculated the numbers based on the established cost of content deals fought over when Netflix directly competes with Amazon for content rights. Netflix is on record as […]
HBO, who invested over A$10 million into Australian movie hire Company Quickflix, has reportedly walked away from the struggling company days after its shares were suspended on the ASX. Last week Quickflix was placed into voluntary suspension with the company indicating they were set to announce new investors. To date this has not happened. HBO […]
Telia, TeliaSonera’s subsidiary in Sweden, now includes HBO in its TV offering. Telia’s near 500,000 TV customers can watch new episodes of the channel’s popular series subtitled in Swedish within one day after the original broadcast. The price for HBO is 79 SEK per month and users can watch it on TV as well as […]
Following the move by Carl Icahn to acquire 10 per cent of its stock, Netflix has announced that its Board of Directors adopted a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan” or “Plan”) and declared a dividend distribution of one right (“Right”) for each outstanding share of Netflix common stock. The Rights Plan is intended to […]
FOX Movies Premium (FMP), Star Chinese Movies (SCM) and now TV have joined forces to bring to viewers a better premium movie channel experience through the introduction of a new and exclusive Play service in Hong Kong. now TV customers subscribing to FMP and SCM will be able to access the FOX Movies Play and […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates analysing broadband and pay-TV services, business models, and consumer preferences indicates that broadband penetration is above 70 per cent in several Western European countries, and up to 30 per cent of the broadband population in some countries prefer PCs over TVs for watching video, with a strong corresponding preference […]