Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
UK carrier BT and Hollywood studio Universal Pictures have signed an agreement which will enable BT broadband users to download movies to buy.
Under the agreement, broadband users will be able to buy a movie starting at £7.99 on the same day as the DVD is released.
Unlike other sites which have agreements with Universal, there is no
rental plan in place. However, for their money, users get to own three
copies of the movie for different digital players. Once they download a
copy to their PC in Windows Media format, they can copy it to a mobile
player. Then in true telecoms carrier style, BT sends them a copy of
the DVD through the post.
Oviously to buy a movie to keep three copies of, you would want to
really like that movie. However, in the September quarter, BT intends
to launch its set top box broadband service, which will enable users to
watch movie downloads on TV and will include a rental plan.
According to Universal, the studio plans to do a number of movie
download deals going forward. The market is really only waiting for the
bandwidth of broadband connections to increase an order of magnitude to
make downloading times more reasonable.
Most movies are larger than 1 GB and can take up to 2 hours to download
on lower-end broadband connections. In addition, some broadband
providers may need to raise their allocation of monthly data downloads
for customers who happen to be movie buffs.
David Bass
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