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France Abandons SVoD Plan

by Helen Vince

Plans to launch an SVoD service in France to rival Netflix have been abandoned. Broadcasters TF1, M6 and France Télévisions had held discussions with telco Orange, with a plan to pool their individual SVoD …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 30

NetRange and Vonetize Collaborate

by Helen Vince

NetRange, a provider of white label Smart TV solutions, says it has finalised an agreement with VoD services company Vonetize to launch global channels on Smart TVs worldwide. Users of NetRange’s Smart TV portals …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| VOD| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 30

M-Go Joins Netflix and Amazon

by Tom Allen

M-Go, the UltraHD streaming service established by Technicolor and Dreamworks, will offer HDR content later this year. The service will be launched with “a full selection” of titles, said COO Christophe Louvion. M-Go is …

Satellite Can Push UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Gregory Beaurin of Quadrille in France and he looked at the issues for delivering multimedia content over satellite as satellite TV companies have to be able to add On Demand …

European Commission Examines EU VoD Market

by Tom Allen

A report on video-on-demand has been published by the European Commission. ‘The development of the European market for on-demand audiovisual services’ was prepared by the European Audiovisual Observatory. It presents statistics for European VoD …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 16

OTT Climbs to 100 Million Subs

by Tom Allen

Research firm Ovum has predicted that premium OTT streaming services will reach 100 million subscribers this year. The shift is especially apparent in mature markets, augmenting free services such as YouTube. With the launch …

Wuaki Reaches Italy, Has Big Plans in Europe

by Tom Allen

Spanish VoD service Wuaki.tv has now been launched in Italy. It aims to be in 15 European countries by the end of the year, having finished 2014 in four, with two million users. Ireland …

Google Tops 10 Million

by Tom Allen

More than 10 million Chromecasts were sold worldwide last year. The news comes from Google Korea, which also told the Korea Times that more than 6,000 developers are working on apps for the device.

Online Subscription Video Services Driving Connected TV Activities: Futuresource Consulting

by Vanessa Browning

Futuresource Consulting’s latest wave of Living with Digital consumer research highlights the continued shift in entertainment behaviour amongst respondents. One key trend is the emergence of TV as an increasingly connected device, either directly on the …

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Netflix Closing in on 17 Million Subs

by Raverstead

After achieving 14.4 million subscribers outside of the USA in September, Netflix has said that it expects to reach 17 million paying customers by the end of this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Worldwide

RTL Considers Netflix Rival…

by Raverstead

The RTL Group is considering the launch of a Netflix-like SVOD service. Co-CEO Guillaume de Posch told French newspaper La Correspondance de la Presse that he feels it is a shame that US companies, …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| RTL| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Swisscom Launches SVOD Service

by Raverstead

Switzerland’s Swisscom has launched a rival SVOD service to Netflix called Teleclub Play. The service offers films, TV shows, documentaries, sports and childrens’ programming for CHF12.90 ($13.20) a month. Around 5,000 titles are currently …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Switzerland| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48