Following the May 2011 launch of its service bringing new release movies and more for rent to YouTube in the US, and September’s similar initiative in Canada, now over a thousand full-length feature films from major Hollywood and British studios are available for rent in the UK at youtube.com/movies. Announcing the development in a company […]
Univision Communications, the Hispanic America media company, and Hulu have announced a multi-year content agreement that will bring hundreds of hours of top-rated Spanish-language novelas, variety shows, comedies, and reality series from the Univision family of networks to Hulu and Hulu Plus. Launching later this year, the offering will include current season primetime programming from […]
Miramax is sitting on a portfolio of 756 very highly regarded films, ranging from classics like ‘Pulp Fiction’ to ‘Muriel’s Wedding’. The movies are already available on OTT systems such as NetFlix and Hulu, and at this week’s Mipcom the studio talked exclusively to Advanced-Television.com about its plans for the future. Joe Patrick, Miramax’s SVP […]
BBC Worldwide confirmed that the global BBC iPlayer App has launched in Australia and will be available to on the App Store exclusively on iPad. The app will give iPad users access to a quality mix of classic and contemporary British television specifically tailored for Australian viewers. The global BBC iPlayer is a video […]
Microsoft is said to be planning a Web-based pay-TV service that it can build onto its Xbox Live platform say US reports. Microsoft is working with Comcast and Verizon to bring TV to the Xbox 360 connected game console. Within the next few weeks, Comcast will make Xfinity On Demand content available to Xbox users, […]
Amazon has unveiled its colour tablet computer, the Kindle Fire which at $199 is less than half the price of Apple’s iPad. It runs a modified version of Google’s Android operating system. But its most compelling proposition is its direct connection to Amazon’s ocean of content – books, music, magazines, videos and films – not […]
Miramax has signed a multi-year agreement to bring its films to Hulu subscribers in Japan. Beginning immediately, Hulu subscribers in Japan will be able to instantly watch a wide variety of Miramax movies on multiple platforms, including Internet-connected living room devices such as TVs, Blu-ray players, and gaming consoles in addition to PCs, tablets and […]
DISH Network, the number two US DTH platform, has bid for Hulu to add it to a growing portfolio of content delivery platforms that includes Blockbuster. Headed by Charlie Ergen, DISH has reportedly offered more than Yahoo or Amazon with a figure said to top $1.9 billion. However, such is the frenzy for the $500 […]
FTI Consulting has found in a new consumer survey that tablet users in the US are not only ardent consumers of digital content but also are more willing to pay for online subscriptions. These results suggest that well-formulated digital media strategies may offer new revenue prospects to traditional media. In a study, FTI Consulting compares […]
Netflix, the Internet subscription service for TV shows and movies, has secured the rights for the North-American premiere of Tom Fontana’s Borgia series. The distributor Beta Film/Munich has confirmed that Borgia will be given its first US showing on the VoD provider, which has over 25 million subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America. […]