Tag: Video on Demand
Sundance Selects VOD Offering
Sundance Selects, the theatrical and streaming media label, today announced the second partnership with the not-for-profit Sundance Institute for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20th – 30th, Park City, UT). It presents initiative under which traditional film fests (including TriBeCa, established in 2002, NY) expand their brands by offering a few current selections for a limited time via VOD platforms. The films will be available in approximately 40 million homes on most major cable systems including Bright House, Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, and Time Warner Cable.
Photos, all recently procured by Sundance Selects, are Brendan Fletcher’s “Mad Bastards,” (Drama, 2010) Michael Tully’s “Septien,”(Comedy/Drama, 2010) Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s “These Amazing Shadows,” (Documentary, 2011) Joe Swanberg’s “Uncle Kent” (Drama, 2011) and Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom.” (Comedy/Sci-Fi, 2010)
Amazon Opens Streaming Movie Service
Amazon on Thursday is revealing Video on Demand, its second approach to online video. Unlike the company’s own Unbox service, which requires that users download the entire video, the new feature will depend on streaming alone; while it depends on an active Internet connection, the feature will allow devices with little to no hard drive space to buy TV shows, and buy or rent movies, with the same access as full computer users.
The new VOD feature similarly remembers which videos the user owns or is renting, allowing them to play back that content on any computer or device without the digital rights management that limits Unbox videos to Windows PCs and TiVo video recorders. The initial service will be cross-platform and support both Mac OS X and Windows PCs, as well as Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link add-on for its line of HDTVs. Other devices are expected in the future but haven’t been specified outside of likely future BRAVIA TVs that will include the Internet link as a standard feature. Read more on Sound Food…
