POTENTIAL EVOLUTION OF VOD DELAYED

YouView is mightily being hailed as the next big thing when it comes to the platform of Video On Demand services. But then the joint venture that is collaboration between broadcasting moguls Sky, BBC, ITV and BT among others is going to take some time before it is officially launched. This delay again may be for as long as six months indeed.

The service is bound to change a thing or two when it thus comes to the VOD. It will enable one to watch and choose from the various VOD services in turn as offered by individual broadcasters. Among the many issues that the launch of this new service is now seeing include technical concern as well as altercations taking place between the various broadcasters. For once, things may as well be stretched to the next year of 2012 before YouView is finally launched or at the minimum a very late into this year. BT and ITV in the mean while had tremendous faith in YouView and its potential. They are bound to be the most disappointed among others with this unwanted delay. They were eyeing to dethrone BSkyB form the top slot.

Earlier it was Project Kangaroo with which everything had begun. But then that was also brought to an abrupt halt by the Britain’s competition Watchdog back in 2009.
YouView is simply an improved and further evolved version of the current Freeview. Subscribers may simply get access to this platform by buying a new set top box and connecting it to broadband.The features that the platform offers are simply enviable and desirable all the more. This includes the pause and rewind option for even live TV. One may as well view recently aired shows right from BBC, ITV and Channel 4 programmes. Then there is of course the brilliant option of renting online films and choosing from a massive and ever updated library. 

Sky Vod Service : Sky Anytime Plus offering Video on Demand service this termed as an upgrade of Sky Anytime. Sky Anytime Plus VOD service implies you to watch your favourite TV shows at convenient time. You canpause, rewind and fast forward programme movies with Sky Anytime Plus VOD Service.

BT head Ian Livingston greatly feels this platform is an answer to allow people to choose from the best line up of films, TV series, other shows and events and view it according to their comfortable timings. In the mean while all this can be done in a much cheaper way when compared with the much expensive Sky.However, the potentially great platform may as well see the light of day sooner than later if a YouView spokesman is to be believed. He recently stated of how they are still looking at launching YouView this summer.

Sky Anytime Plus : Sky Anytime plus is a new video on demand services from Sky. The Sky Anytime plus service offers TV programmes includes 500 movies, Series and Documentaries on demand at no extra cost.

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POTENTIAL EVOLUTION OF VOD DELAYED

BBC VOD ON A ROLL

The recent times have seen Video On Demand services come to the spot light with more and more people opting for them. For starters, one may simply have access to an almost endless library of films which can be directly streamed to one’s set top box from online. This is against having to watch what the broadcaster has in store on a channel as scheduled. All the leading companies Sky, Virgin Media and BT are all set their own VOD services with more and more movie titles and other video content being added and updated every day.

Amidst all this, BBC iPlayer continues to rock the party even as an increasing number of people download video content from the VOD service. A recent release of the VOD’s monthly performance is simply testimonial of this fact that the service is a block buster hit already and had a clean sweep the recent Christmas season. With 145 million requests for TV as well as radio programmes in the month of December 2010 itself, iPlayer was simply on a roll. This was indeed the third month in running when it led the charts with seeing the most number of requests for downloads.
Then again when it comes to the 145 million requests, it was the demand for TV shows that led with 89.7 million with BBC iPlayer.

Sky Anytime Plus offering Video on Demand service this termed as an upgrade of Sky Anytime. Sky Anytime Plus VOD service implies you to watch your favourite TV shows at convenient time. You canpause, rewind and fast forward programme movies with Sky Anytime Plus VOD Service.

It was Two Top Gear Specials (Middle East and USA) that ranked Numero Uno with getting well over 1.25 million requests each apart. Then there was also Come Fly With Me that reached the top five spot with as many as 783,000 requests. Daniel Danker, the BBC general manager for programmes and on-demand is all pumped up with seeing the brilliant results that have come out as shown by the statistics. He is for once greatly looking forward to the BBC iPlayer scaling even greater heights. Right from game consoles, connected TVs or for that matter the mobiles phones, BBC iPlayer was unstoppable and effortlessly at that.

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NEW VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICE FROM ORANGE SWITZERLAND

VOD seems to be the flavor of the season with every operator providing people with their own Video On Demand services. For once, people seem to prefer the service more as they get to watch a film of their own personal choice rather than simply watch what has been served on the patter. Most of the leading operators are thus coming up with their VOD services which help one enable and have access to a massive line up of movies to be chosen from. This is where now the Swiss telecommunications company Orange doesn’t want to lag behind either.

The company has thus made public their new video on demand (VOD) service that is named Orange CineHome. The service will have the subscribers of Orange having access to as many as 1,500 plus films, TV series and even an assortment of adult films. None the less one would also have to go for the broadband line that the company offers in order to have access to the VOD service as the videos are streamed from online. One may thus have to get access to the least of 2 Mbit/s –internet line from the provider. A current orange subscriber pays as much as CHF14 (€11) per month for the new service. This apart people who are subscribing to other telcos and want to opt for the Orange CineHiome will have to shell out as much as CHF19 (€15) per month.

The price to be paid is also inclusive of the rent to be paid for the set-op-box. This set-top-box simply connects the TV with broadband from where on one may have this access to the assortment of films as offered by the VOD service online. Warner TV provides with thirty movies and about hundred and twenty TV series episodes. All these come from the stable of US Studio Warner Bros. Then there are also eighty shows that are updated on a daily basis. These are provided by SRG. In the mean while the catalogue that comprises of the TV Series are updated on a weekly basis and the movies are updated on a monthly basis. Apart from this one may as well opt to order for a title on DVD or Blu-ray disc for CHF6 per title. There are as many as eighteen hundred plus titles to be chosen from. This may be done by post mail. As for the VOD service, per title will cost about CHF3.50 or CHF8.50. This is of course depending on when the subscriber orders for the film posts its release date or for that matter if he orders for a standard definition version or a high definition version.

Sky Anytime Plus : Sky Anytime plus is a new video on demand services from Sky. The Sky Anytime plus service offers TV programmes includes 500 movies, Series and Documentaries on demand at no extra cost.

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