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Lovefilm app for PS3

As of next month, Sony PS3 owners will be able to order a movie using the Lovefilm app, and choose whether to stream it via their games console or continue ordering the DVDs to be delivered.  The app will also let users curate their movie and game rental lists. Lovefilm is also rumoured to be […]

October 12, 2010

Paramount show secures online VOD deals

Paramount Pictures has struck a series of international digital distribution deals for The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, an online adventure series. The series, which Paramount calls The LXD, has already been a hit online in the US, where it is available via Hulu The series has topped the Hulu viewing charts, beating established TV shows, […]

September 30, 2010

Warner VOD for VimpelCom

Russian telco VimpelCom has made an agreement with Warner Brothers Digital Distribution for content to be added to the VOD library of the telco’s IPTV service ‘Beeline TV’. Content covered by the deal includes new movies with rental costing RUB75 ($2.45), and older, back-catalogue movies costing RUB 50.

September 28, 2010

du and On Demand ink deal with MBC

On Demand Group have completed a deal with MBC to provide hundreds of hours of Arabic TV content to UAE’s integrated telecom service provider du’s VOD TV service. In the first subscription VOD and Catch-Up TV deal by MBC – a major free-to-air Middle Eastern TV broadcaster – top TV series will be available to […]

September 24, 2010

CBS on Hulu?

CBS’s broadcast network may participate in the Hulu Plus online subscription service eventually, CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves has said. It makes more sense for CBS to join the paid service than the original free, advertising-supported website, Moonves commented at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York

September 23, 2010

Mobistar TV on Astra

SES Astra has announced that the Belgian telecom provider Mobistar has launched a new “Mobistar TV” offer that will include digital and HD TV channels received from the Astra satellites. The satellite TV offer, including Flemish national channels and a wide range of European free-to-air channels, will be integrated into a fully-hybrid DSL/ DTH solution, […]

September 21, 2010

Netflix Canadian streaming only service

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 […]

September 21, 2010

Movistar Imagenio launch HD VOD

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 […]

September 20, 2010From David Del Valle in Madrid

Oregan to launch Onyx HD Internet media player

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 […]

September 20, 2010

Discovery: TV Everywhere has to be monetised

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 […]

September 17, 2010