This is a service I have felt has badly lacking in pay TV. Other countries I have visited have both VOD for free (slightly older movies) as well as those available for a small fee (new movies). Regard's Brian Ngure On 21 Jul 2011 18:54, "Kevin Omondi" <kevin.ouma@gmail.com> wrote: DStv today announced the launch of BoxOffice, a Video-on-Demand service for South Africa. This service gives subscribers the opportunity to rent the latest Hollywood blockbusters from the comfort of their home. The BoxOffice service will be rolled out in several phases. The first phase is today’s launch of a satellite-based value added offering to DStv Premium subscribers via their PVRs. The next phase of the BoxOffice roll-out will be an online offering, available to all South African broadband users by the end of this year. It is retailing at about 325 per movie and is for only premium subscribers with PVR decoders. what are your thoughts....will it work out in Kenya ? Kevin _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
I dont think it will work in Kenya because of lack of proper legislation to curb piracy. Regards Kevin On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
This is a service I have felt has badly lacking in pay TV. Other countries I have visited have both VOD for free (slightly older movies) as well as those available for a small fee (new movies).
Regard's
Brian Ngure
On 21 Jul 2011 18:54, "Kevin Omondi" <kevin.ouma@gmail.com> wrote: DStv today announced the launch of BoxOffice, a Video-on-Demand service for South Africa. This service gives subscribers the opportunity to rent the latest Hollywood blockbusters from the comfort of their home.
The BoxOffice service will be rolled out in several phases. The first phase is today’s launch of a satellite-based value added offering to DStv Premium subscribers via their PVRs. The next phase of the BoxOffice roll-out will be an online offering, available to all South African broadband users by the end of this year.
It is retailing at about 325 per movie and is for only premium subscribers with PVR decoders.
what are your thoughts....will it work out in Kenya ?
Kevin
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It’s a brilliant product but with the growth of online multiplatform VOD services from companies like Netflix, Hulu , BBC iplayer , Amazon VOD and Google tv ,I think this will a short-lived product/service. Right now these services are mostly available to US and European residents but It wont be long before such companies have a global presence and content will be available to anyone with a fast enough internet connection anywhere in the world . Most of these services have got multiplatform apps that can be installed on PC/MAC/ LINUX/XBOX /PS3 including some of the newer internet enabled tv’s that have come to market. It all comes down to price and availability on content . Vince
This platform will be ruled by content...especially since they are well positioned to offer African content that other companies would be slow to take up. I think they are very well positioned with this. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Vincent Wayodi <wayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
It’s a brilliant product but with the growth of online multiplatform VOD services from companies like Netflix, Hulu , BBC iplayer , Amazon VOD and Google tv ,I think this will a short-lived product/service. Right now these services are mostly available to US and European residents but It wont be long before such companies have a global presence and content will be available to anyone with a fast enough internet connection anywhere in the world .
Most of these services have got multiplatform apps that can be installed on PC/MAC/ LINUX/XBOX /PS3 including some of the newer internet enabled tv’s that have come to market. It all comes down to price and availability on content .
Vince
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I can reliably say that i know of a Kenyan Company currently preparing to launch ONLINE VOD with local Kenyan movies.....watch out for the link next week. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Samuel Mbugua <samuel.mbugua@gmail.com>wrote:
This platform will be ruled by content...especially since they are well positioned to offer African content that other companies would be slow to take up. I think they are very well positioned with this.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Vincent Wayodi <wayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
It’s a brilliant product but with the growth of online multiplatform VOD services from companies like Netflix, Hulu , BBC iplayer , Amazon VOD and Google tv ,I think this will a short-lived product/service. Right now these services are mostly available to US and European residents but It wont be long before such companies have a global presence and content will be available to anyone with a fast enough internet connection anywhere in the world .
Most of these services have got multiplatform apps that can be installed on PC/MAC/ LINUX/XBOX /PS3 including some of the newer internet enabled tv’s that have come to market. It all comes down to price and availability on content .
Vince
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I hope the Kenyan VOD company has its servers in Kenya. Why? it's easier to convince Safaricom, Orange, Airtel, Yu to charge a fixed monthly data fee for that connection. On 22 July 2011 09:57, bernard kioko <bernsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
I can reliably say that i know of a Kenyan Company currently preparing to launch ONLINE VOD with local Kenyan movies.....watch out for the link next week.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Samuel Mbugua <samuel.mbugua@gmail.com>wrote:
This platform will be ruled by content...especially since they are well positioned to offer African content that other companies would be slow to take up. I think they are very well positioned with this.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Vincent Wayodi <wayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
It’s a brilliant product but with the growth of online multiplatform VOD services from companies like Netflix, Hulu , BBC iplayer , Amazon VOD and Google tv ,I think this will a short-lived product/service. Right now these services are mostly available to US and European residents but It wont be long before such companies have a global presence and content will be available to anyone with a fast enough internet connection anywhere in the world .
Most of these services have got multiplatform apps that can be installed on PC/MAC/ LINUX/XBOX /PS3 including some of the newer internet enabled tv’s that have come to market. It all comes down to price and availability on content .
Vince
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New/Recent movies on VoD?......In Kenya? The latest movie will be VODed to a decoder hooked to a comp for DVR purposes. The recorded Video will then be converted to VOB (or any other DVD readable format) and burnt to an empty imation DVD to boost its value from < 20 bob to > 50 bob then sold to as many folks as possible _______________________________________________ *#define TRUE FALSE* //Happy debugging suckers! _______________________________________________ * * 2011/7/22 Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com>
I hope the Kenyan VOD company has its servers in Kenya. Why? it's easier to convince Safaricom, Orange, Airtel, Yu to charge a fixed monthly data fee for that connection.
On 22 July 2011 09:57, bernard kioko <bernsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
I can reliably say that i know of a Kenyan Company currently preparing to launch ONLINE VOD with local Kenyan movies.....watch out for the link next week.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Samuel Mbugua <samuel.mbugua@gmail.com>wrote:
This platform will be ruled by content...especially since they are well positioned to offer African content that other companies would be slow to take up. I think they are very well positioned with this.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Vincent Wayodi <wayodi@gmail.com>wrote:
It’s a brilliant product but with the growth of online multiplatform VOD services from companies like Netflix, Hulu , BBC iplayer , Amazon VOD and Google tv ,I think this will a short-lived product/service. Right now these services are mostly available to US and European residents but It wont be long before such companies have a global presence and content will be available to anyone with a fast enough internet connection anywhere in the world .
Most of these services have got multiplatform apps that can be installed on PC/MAC/ LINUX/XBOX /PS3 including some of the newer internet enabled tv’s that have come to market. It all comes down to price and availability on content .
Vince
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On 22 July 2011 09:57, bernard kioko <bernsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
I can reliably say that i know of a Kenyan Company currently preparing to launch ONLINE VOD with local Kenyan movies.....watch out for the link next week.
The week is here, how long do we have to wait? -- ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ Regards, David Njuki @njukey [Google,Twitter,Yahoo]
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