Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings will be in this week to launch an online video subscription service that will allow Canadians to download their favourite movies and TV shows for a monthly fee. Entering the Canadian market is Netflix’s first foreign expansion. Netflix’s new offering will be only online streaming, with no physical DVD […]
Telefonica-owned IPTV service Movistar Imagenio has launched a High Definition VOD service called Imagenio Videoclub de Movistar, available for all fixed broadband clients. A wide range of content -HD content, documentaries, cinema, TV series, concerts, children programmes- have been made available for subscribers at prices from E0.49 cents to E6. HD films will cost between […]
Oregan Networks, a developer of media browsing technologies for television, has announced imminent launch of the Onyx STB manufactured by Korea-based Consumer Electronics brand Digital Streams. The new device offers a simple way for consumers to stream UK’s popular Internet video services and music, as well as accessing photo sharing and social networking sites on […]
Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav said that he would embrace online delivery of content if it could be monetised. Discovery has been slow to embrace online content delivery, instead opting to use its web sites to deliver snippets of video aimed at driving viewership of its TV channels. “Our deals provide that distributors have the […]
Bell has announced the launch of Bell TV On Demand, the first national VOD service available to Canadian satellite TV subscribers. Bell TV On Demand is also the first to offer satellite customers on-demand access to select titles in HD resolution. Movies cost $6.99 per title for up to 48-hour access, and are available instantly […]
Communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva has confirmed that it will begin licensing to third parties the VOD technology that powers its SeeSaw online TV service. The online video aggregation platform will be offered internationally as a bespoke solution configured to meet customers’ specific requirements, or as a more standard product closely aligned […]
Netflix announces the release of a free Netflix application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows streaming of movies over Wi-Fi or a 3G cellphone connection. Netflix is available on a number of devices and screens, including gaming consoles like Microsoft’s Xbox, the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii — all of […]
UKTV is aiming to launch so-called ‘pull-on-demand’ services on Virgin Media and BSkyB’s pay-TV platforms by the end of the year and is in talks with Project Canvas, according to commercial chief Julia Jordan. Earlier this month, UKTV signed a 10-year, billion-pound ad deal for Channel 4 to handle all its ad sales, including VOD […]
Qualitative consumer research, conducted by Evolution Digital, a provider of integrated IP Hybrid devices and IP Video solutions for the global cable industry, shows that pay-TV subscribers are eager for a new way to have access to both traditional cable TV channels and popular OTT services, and want cable set-top box technology to simplify their […]