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Home Premiere “premium VOD” offers $30 rentals 60 days after theater

Chris Davies, Apr 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

A premium video-on-demand service backed by major Hollywood studios is set to launch imminently, with Home Premiere offering $30 rentals just two months after they show at theaters. According to Variety, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox new Home Premiere service will arrive on DirecTV in April 2011, while cable providers - including Comcast - are planning limited trials. Read The Full Story

Cox VOD comes to TiVo subscribers

Shane McGlaun, Aug 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Cox cable is one of the largest providers in the country and the company has a lot of subscribers. some of those subscribers probably have TiVo units in their home like the new TiVO Premiere DVR that debuted a while back. Cox has opened the door to more TiVo support with its streaming VOD offering. Read The Full Story

Dilithium added Live TV and VoD supports for Blackberry

Daniel Lim, Jan 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

Research in Motion’s popular line of Blackberry devices do not have any soft of TV tuner incorporated, but the subscribers will be able to browser, view live Tv and VOD content steaming with the added support of Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA). Basically, it’s much like mobile entertainment services such as SlingBox media and Tivo mobile apps on RIM phones you probably have heard. The different, according to Dilithium, unlike most devices that allow only browsing DVR content and scheduling, the DCA is the only product on the market that supports Live TV and VoD streaming. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster ramps up VOD service with Sonic Solutions

Daniel Lim, Jan 14th 2009 Discuss [0]

After launching its first on-demand set-top box, which uses 2Wire’s streaming video player to offer instant movie download though TV set; Blockbuster teams up with Sonic Solutions to expand its video library and digital download services though a variety of consumer electronics devices. Read The Full Story

Tivo adds Disney and Jaman VOD content

Daniel Lim, Oct 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Starting next week, Tivo subscribers will get VOD contents from Disney film and Jaman.com straight from their DVRs. The company has inked a new deal with the Walt Disney Studios and Jaman to add number of CinemaNow’s Disney films and Jaman’s independent and international flicks to Its S2, S3, HD, and HD XL DVR Set-tops. Read The Full Story

Vudu’s HDX gets official, not a threat to Blu-ray

Daniel Lim, Oct 2nd 2008 Discuss [0]

Just weeks ago words got out that Vudu was testing a new format of HD download with quality equivalent of Blu-Ray, and today the HDX is out officially. The new format encodes video at variable bit-rate of MPEG-4 H.264 format in 1080p at 24 frames per second, and promises to deliver twice the quality of any VOD contents currently available on the market. Read The Full Story

Netflix adds Starz movies, 2500 titles for online streaming

Daniel Lim, Oct 1st 2008 Discuss [0]

Netflix strikes a three-year deal with Starz movie services provider to offer Starz movies available for online streaming. The agreement allows the World's largest online movie rental service to add additional 2,500 Starz Play movies to its Video On Demands’ library of 12,000 movies and TV episodes. Read The Full Story

Cable Network to offer VOD with Same-Day-DVD service, more money for studio

Daniel Lim, Feb 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

I don’t care how affordable and technology breakthrough in HD VOD industry, they can’t replace disc unless given same-day availability as DVD releases. Vudu got their first taste with Bourne Ultimatum in HD, now is Comcast turn. Read The Full Story