Best Buy is bringing its CinemaNow online video download service to Canada later this summer, offering users the ability to buy or rent movies online and adding another competitor to Canada’s growing digital media market. Best Buy and Future Shop intend to launch the service sometime in August with a library of more than 10,000 […]
LoveFilm and The Walt Disney Company Germany have signed a Transactional Video on Demand and Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) feature film streaming deal. German members of LoveFilm, streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by post—will be able to rent and stream a selection of titles from Walt Disney’s movie […]
HBO Central Europe has launched HBO GO in Hungary, following launches of the service in Poland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Romania, continuing the rollout of HBO GO across the region. From June 6th HBO GO will be available to subscribers of TARR Kft, Tolna, Somogy, Baranya, Bács-Kiskun, Fejér, Zala and Veszprém who have […]
HBO will begin picking up modest gains in subscribers through 2015, according to new IHS Screen Digest research. As a result of this increase, and with total net revenue rising at a 1.5 per cent compound annual growth rate through 2015, Screen Digest estimates total net revenue per average subscriber per month for HBO and […]
Have you heard that by 2013 and a bit, the amount of Internet Video transmitted every week will hit a guzillion Gbs? That’s the same as 20 hexabillion or 100 terratillion, and that’s loads. Only five years ago the whole Internet only carried 10 zintillion all year… think what we were missing. Actually, I just […]
Film studio Miramax and Hulu have signed a multi-year agreement to bring films made by the studio to Hulu Plus subscribers. “Making our films available via premium digital distribution channels is extremely important to Miramax,” Mike Lang, CEO of Miramax, said. Earlier this month, Miramax signed a similar deal with movie rental service Netflix.
HBO Central Europe has launched HBO GO in Romania. HBO GO is the Internet streaming service available to HBO subscribers with a broadband connection. The service in Romania will be accessible to customers that have broadband Internet and an HBO Maxpak subscription. In Romania HBO GO will be available initially to iNES IPTV clients. iNES […]
Edelman, the global public relations firm, has released findings from its fifth annual Value, Engagement and Trust in the Era of Social Entertainment survey. The 2011 study shows that the value consumers are getting from the Entertainment Industry has fallen by 68 per cent in all areas, and only 17 per cent of all respondents […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has announced that Viasat Broadcasting has signed an exclusive four year pan-Scandinavian distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The deal is the first of its kind in Scandinavia as it covers the broadcasting of a range of movies and TV series on Viasat’s Scandinavian […]
Online movie rental service Netflix appears to be recruiting staff in preparation for a major European initiative as soon as the second half of 2011. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings admitted late in 2010 that the company would consider expanding to Europe and Asia once the results of its Canadian operation, which it launched in the […]