To ring in the New Year, Netflix has added all 10 seasons (236 episodes) of popular US sitcom Friends to its VoD service. Friends is available in HD and widescreen through Netflix. To remaster the show, Warner Bros had to rescan all of the episodes in HD from its original 35mm film. The images then […]
YouView customers now have access to over 30,000 hours of on-demand films, box sets and TV series. The recent addition of Netflix adds to a collection of content that now makes up more than 40,000 titles. Other options include films from Sky Store, Sky Movies on NOW TV, plus free-to-air on demand films as well […]
Following earlier reports that UK MNO Vodafone was considering buying the Tesco-owned video and music streaming service blinkbox to give it access to content as it gears up to become a quad-play operator, existing market player TalkTalk is now understood to be in discussions with the UK supermarket retailer regarding a potential acquisition, with Vodafone’s […]
According to figures released by Sony Pictures, in its first four days of release, controversial comedy The Interview was “rented or purchased online more than 2 million times” between December 24th, when it was released, and December 27th. “Total consumer spending through Saturday for The Interview online is over $15 million,” Sony said in a […]
A ruling by a US bankruptcy court will allow Internet entertainment streaming service Aereo to auction its TV streaming technology assets. It had filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 reorganisation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on November 21 following the suspension of its operations June 28th after […]
Following its online release on December 24th and limited theatrical release on Christmas Day, controversial comedy film The Interview has become available on a number of piracy websites, with some 900,000 torrent users downloading the title in the following 24 hours. Sony Pictures made the movie available for rental and purchase online for US consumers […]
In addition to a limited theatrical release on December 25th, Sony Pictures is now making controversial comedy movie The Interview available for rental and purchase online for US consumers on YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Xbox Video and on its own dedicated website www.seetheinterview.com for $5.99. The film can also be purchased in HD for a […]
According to online entertainment streaming service FilmOn Networks, the Federal Communications Commission’s announcement of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would ‘modernise’ the definition of MVPDs marks the turning of the tide in the service’s battle against the major network television establishment. FilmOn has spent years and millions of dollars on technology and legal fees […]
Multiscreen video software SeaChange International has increased its ability to extend social news to multiscreen television service providers by agreeing to acquire California-based SaaS company TLL, LLC which does business as Timeline Labs in a cash and stock deal rising to $24.5 million. Timeline Labs enables local broadcasters, local and national news organisations, cable news […]
Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of TV, has admitted it faces growing competition from rival broadcasters both on screen and online, with the Netflix bidding for content ‘blowing deals out of the water’. Shows such as The Great British Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing helped give the BBC some of the highest ratings on […]