Alongside the announcement of the renaming of the DVD rental service, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a long ‘mea culpa’ blog. Here it is full: I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the […]
Microsoft is still hopeful of releasing Xbox Live TV before the year is through, Steve Ballmer, the company’s CEO has said. Balmer told a developer’s conference that, although the service continues to be in the planning stages, hopes are still high for a 2011 launch. He said: “Having all of that content is right on, […]
Canadian pay-TV producer Astral Media says foreign Internet competitors such as movie provider Netflix should be subject to the same rules as Canadian broadcasters, noting digital competitors don’t contribute to local programming or pay taxes. “They come here and don’t spend a penny,” chief executive Ian Greenberg said. “They don’t have any rules whatsoever. Taxes […]
Totalmovie, Mexico’s leading entertainment-on-demand service, hasdemonstrated an extension of the Totalmovie consumer service to Internet connected Blu-ray players and Sony’s PS3 game consoles. The service is built on Related Content Database’s WatchWith Service Delivery Platform. Totalmovie consumers can now stream full-length movies to their TVs simply by inserting a Totalmovie disc in an Internet connected […]
White-label video publishing company and independent subsidiary of Comcast, thePlatform, has been selected by international cable operator Liberty Global to provide the back-end video management system across its online video properties. Liberty Global – which has operations in 14 countries – will use thePlatform’s ‘TV Everywhere’ solution to enable subscribers to catch-up and watch more […]
Australian broadband company Internode has become the first company to deliver the fetchtv IP TV service over Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), showing it in action at a house in the western Sydney suburb of Bunya. Although the multicast service designed to provide IPTV is not scheduled for release on the NBN until mid-2012, Internode […]
KIT digital, a provider of end-to-end video management software and related services, has confirmed the first major multiplatform deployment using technology from ioko, acquired by KIT digital in April 2011. BSkyB, the multichannel, multi-platform television service in the UK and Ireland, has selected ioko, now rebranded and part of KIT digital – to support and […]
Netflix has launched its movie and TV streaming service in Brazil, the first deployment in an intended series of roll-outs across Latin America. The company plans to expand into 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. “What Netflix seeks to do is connect the world to provide the world’s content to the world’s citizens,” […]
Pay-TV channel Starz has called off talks to renew its streaming deal with Netflix, in a move that could deprive the online video service of one of its key sources of movies. Starz has original programming but also distribution rights for movies from studios such as Disney and Sony. Although Netflix has brokered several deals […]
Online movie service FilmFlex Movies has added payment solution PayWizard as an online payment mechanism. The first deployment of the PayWizard e-wallet is now live on the Film4oD website. FilmFlex Movies is the sixth customer to deploy the PayWizard platform since the start of 2011; existing customers include Racing UK (Android/iPhone apps) and Omnimotion (online […]