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Pizza and movies at home from Domino’s

Pizza delivery company Domino’s Pizza has teamed up with independent filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate UK to become the first UK company to deliver movies alongside pizza with its brand new Domino’s Pizza Box Office service. Customers can now order their favourite pizza and a whole host of popular films all online via the Domino’s website. […]

October 31, 2012By Colin Mann

Quickflix returns to growth

Quickflix, the Australian movie streaming and rental company, delivered stronger growth in the September quarter as it resumed a focus on subscriber acquisition following its successful rollout of digital streaming over previous quarters. Whilst continuing to invest in new content and integration of its pay-per-view and subscription streaming service in new consumer devices, the company […]

October 31, 2012

Hulu in decline?

Data from Nielsen, ComScore and analysts at Wedbush Securities suggests that viewers are falling out of love with Hulu. In August the number of hours spent watching Hulu was some 65 million hours. However, last March the total was 156 million hours. Meanwhile a report from TBI claims Hulu’s subscriber count fell from a ‘high’ […]

October 29, 2012By Chris Forrester

ITV unveils new ITV Player

ITV has unveiled its new ITV Player offering viewers the chance to rent content from ITV’s vast archive of programming, free from advertisements. Traditional catch-up content remains available at no charge, and will sit alongside the archive content. Effective immediately, every visitor to the ITV Player portal will be offered the chance to use and […]

October 29, 2012

HBO delays Nordic launch

HBO has delayed the launch of video and online distribution of its programming in four Scandinavian countries, giving a head start in the region to rival Netflix. HBO Nordic, the joint venture that runs the service, said that it had “slightly” pushed back the start date in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It did not […]

October 29, 2012

US entertainment spending up 1%

In advance of the important fourth ‘holiday’ quarter, where entertainment spending traditionally experiences an up-tick, US home entertainment trade body DEG: the Digital Entertainment Group has released Q3 figures that show overall consumer spending was up 1 per cent for the year, the industry strengthened by a 13 per cent growth in Blu-ray disc sales. […]

October 29, 2012

Lovefilm on Kindle

Amazon’s  Lovefilm has launched on Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD in the UK and Germany. Kindle owners can access Lovefilm content via a one-month free trial. The service on the allows users to create playlists of TV and movie content – and there is also a pause and resume function that allows users […]

October 25, 2012

KnowHow Movies on LG and Samsung TVs

A new range of LG and Samsung and Smart TVs will come pre-loaded with KnowHow Movies, the digital entertainment service from Dixons Retail, enabling users to enjoy an extensive library of new and classic films and TV shows with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. Having debuted on PCs and Macs earlier this year, the subscription-free […]

October 17, 2012

Netflix Scandinavia launches

Netflix has debuted in Denmark and will roll out in Norway and Finland shortly. The streaming service has also made its first content deal with Warner Bros, which had had a deal with C More. The agreement with Warner Bros is the only one for content in the first pay TV window. Netflix has also […]

October 16, 2012

Netflix launches in Sweden

Netflix, the Internet subscription service for films and TV programmes, has launches in Sweden the monthly price of 79kr (€9.10) A free, one-month trial of Netflix is available to everyone in Sweden by visiting Netflix.com. An extended trial is available for a limited time to Spotify paying subscribers as part of a launch partnership with […]

October 15, 2012