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Reports

CBS-Comcast Deal: Business as usual or TV Everywhere? | 13 Aug 10 tags › | The recent Comcast-CBS retransmission agreement adds a major content partner to the Comcast-Time Warner TV Everywhere initiative, the operator-centric multiplatform distribution model. Early analysis that presented this deal as a marriage of convenience misses its strategic importance. This deal represents a potentially game-changing compromise between industry leaders seeking to recast online dis...

Hulu Plus: paying for free | 16 Jul 10 tags › | Hulu's subscription service Hulu Plus will struggle to attract subscribers due to a combination of consumer reluctance to pay for standalone online subscriptions that focus on entertainment and a content mix that is already widely available for 'free'. However, despite low uptake, the new service launch will have repercussions on the relationships between broadcasters, pay TV operators and premium...

Google TV: the next frontier or another 'Web TV'? | 05 Jul 10 tags › | Google's TV platform, scheduled to launch in autumn 2010, will bring a large number of both legal and illegal online video sources to the living room TV, threatening both the established home entertainment business and existing pay TV walled gardens. The initiative poses an immediate threat to connected TV platforms (Yahoo! Widget Engine, Vudu Apps) and in the long run is set to compete with Apple...

Analyst commentary

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

Epix licenses movies to Netflix Watch Instantly | 11 Aug 10 tags › | Netflix is to offer movies from multiplatform pay TV channel Epix in its online streaming service Watch Instantly from 1 September 2010. The multi-year deal gives Netflix access to select new releases and...

MOG expands music service to mobile | 06 Aug 10 tags › | The US-based music rental company MOG has launched MOG Mobile. Only available in the US at present, MOG offers on-demand listening from a catalogue of 8 million tracks for $5 per month PC-only, or $9.99 on PC...

Presentations

Strategies for digital success: The future in context | 25 Mar 10 tags › | Screen Digest's director of digital media research Arash Amel looks back at our forecasts for the online movie space four years ago to assess whether our then controversial views have been realised. It looks at how much revenues are being made in major markets out of online movie VoD, and compares this with our 2006 forecasts. Plus, which business models are the most successful with the studios, a...