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.
Internet video content provider, Reeltime Media (ASX: RMA) says it will launch in Q1 2007 a service that will enable users to download and burn DVDs the latest movies simultaneous with the release of those movies on DVD.
If the company lives up to its promise, it will be a world leader: it was only last week that the DVD Copy Control Assocation (DVD CCA) announced that it was proposing to change the rules so that consumers would be able to produce their own copy-protected DVDs from content downloaded over the Internet.
The organisation said the proposal had been approved by its board and was now awaiting only on review and approval by its members, but it gave no indication of the timeframe within which the proposal might become a commercial reality. Under the system proposed by the DVD CCA, users would require special blank DVDs incorporating the current Content Scramble System (CSS) for encryption, but the resulting discs would be playable in a standard DVD player. Details of how Reeltime intends to maintain the integrity of its digital rights management were not available at press time.
In a briefing to investors on 21 August Reeltime suggested it would charge $29.99 per movie downloaded and burnt to DVD on the day or release and reduce the price to $14.99 after six months, and to $11.99 after 12 months.
Reeltime said it was also negotiating to deliver free-to-air TV programmes 24 hours after broadcasting, to enable viewers to catch up on programmes they had missed.
Reeltime has agreements with a number of ISPs including Unwired, Adam Internet and Yahoo! Seven to offer its video download service to their customers, but it is ISP agnostic: any broadband subscriber can become a customer.
The company says its PC download infrastructure is complete and that it launched the service in alpha today 21 August. Beta release is due in the week commencing 28 August, its national infrastructure for downloading to set top boxes is complete in NSW, Vic & ACT and it is ready to commence operations to PC and STB by October 1st at the latest.
David Bass
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