Video on Demand

VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film

Movies
 November 28, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

From "Margin Call" to "Melancholia," day-and-date VOD releasing is racking millions of dollars in revenue for independent labels

  

Lionsgate Tests Early VOD Waters With Taylor Lautner's 'Abduction'

Movies
 August 10, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

At $6.99, the action thriller will be substantially cheaper to rent than other premium VOD packages

  

Federal Judge Slaps Injunction on VOD Service Zediva

Movies
 August 1, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 1 year ago

Ruling effectively shuts down unlicensed video-on-demand service

  

Home Entertainment Floundering, As DVD Revenues Plunge 44%

Media | Movies
 May 12, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

"Avatar" top selling DVD according to SNL Kagan while Fox leads the market for disc sales

  

NATO to Hollywood: Give Us DirecTV's Premium VOD Numbers

Movies
 May 4, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

"What's an experiment without data?" asks NATO president

  

Another Tough Quarter: Say Goodbye to the Traditional Home Entertainment Biz

Movies
 May 2, 2011 By Diane Garrett 2 years ago

The disc sales business is circling the drain faster than ever, as more consumers opt to rent/stream movies through Netflix or Redbox rather than purchase them

  

Tribeca: Straight-to-VOD Is More Than OK With Zach Braff

Media | Movies
 April 22, 2011 By Leah Rozen 2 years ago

"Scrubs" star's next film, "The High Cost of Living" is being released through the controversial platform

  

Hollywood Is Slitting Its Own Throat With DirecTV's Premium VOD

Television
 April 19, 2011 By Edward Jay Epstein 2 years ago

The math may look appealing to studios, but a 10% drop in ticket sales would close more than two-thirds of U.S. theaters

  

Worst Kept Secret Revealed: DirecTV Admits Premium VOD Plan (Update)

Movies
 April 19, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Rental platform to launch Thursday with "Just Go With It"

  

DirecTV Aiming to Launch its Controversial VOD Service Next Week

Movies
 April 14, 2011 By Tim Kenneally 2 years ago

Despite theater owners' objections, the studio-backed Home Premiere service will offer recent theatrical releases for domestic viewing

  

NATO Chief: We Didn't Ask Theaters to Pull 'Harry Potter' Over VOD

Movies
 April 14, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

John Fithian says theater companies must decide for themselves how to respond to shorter windows

  

Sundance Goes VOD One More Time

Movies
 January 6, 2011 By Dominic Patten 2 years ago

Four international premieres and Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom” to be available to 40 million homes during Jan 20 - 30 festival

  

Join the Bel-Air Movie Circuit -- for Just $4,000/Month

Movies
 November 17, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Studios are being pitched new revenue schemes that would bring first-run films into the homes of oil barons and Wall Street bandits

  

Over-Rated: 5 Reasons We're Over the Overnights

Media
 September 28, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

The first Nielsen numbers of the day don't mean so much anymore -- here's why

  

Time Warner to Test Premium VOD Window in 2011

Movies
 September 23, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

New scheme will make movies available for home viewing just a month or two after theatrical release for $20-$30 a pop, conglomerate CFO John Martin tells Goldman Sachs conference

  

IFC Midnight Lands Fantastic Fest Genre Pics

Movies
 September 14, 2010 By William Yelles 2 years ago

Deal will screen movies simultaneously at Austin event and VOD

  

Studios Can Do Better in Profiting From 'Watch at Home' Viewers

 June 4, 2010 By Rafi Mohammed 2 years ago

Offering new films on pay-per-view is a shrewd way to better capitalize on new release marketing

  

Oasis TV Finds a Home on Cox, Charter Cable

Television
 December 16, 2009 By Josef Adalian 3 years ago

Keith Carradine special among the programming highlights for the spirituality-focused on-demand cable network, which is adding 6 million more homes

  

Who's Down With VOD? A New Website, That's Who

Television
 November 3, 2009 By Josef Adalian 3 years ago

Video On Demand Weekly aims to help cable users navigate VOD services.

  

Disney Touts a Way to Ditch the DVD

Movies
 October 21, 2009 By the Wall Street Journal 3 years ago

"Keychest" will allow access to movies across multiple platforms.

  

Blockbuster, Samsung Team for Downloads

Movies
 July 15, 2009 By Lew Harris 3 years ago

Film library will feed directly into new tech equipment.

  

The Game-Changer for Video-on-Demand

Media
 June 11, 2009 By Eric Taub 3 years ago

Zillion TV to offer moviesday-and-date with DVD -- for free.

  
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