The company seeks to become the continent’s video entertainment channel by offering online streaming services and pay-tv
Facebook has launched Watch amid a shift in video viewing habits away from traditional television to online platforms
Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
The entertainment giant is disrupting the industry but its rivals are not giving up without a fight
When obsessed followers of an Indian mystic meet self-righteous Americans things get dirty and nasty
There is plenty out there to binge watch to escape any obligatory merriment this festive season
The director has recast his signature film and its characters for a new generation
Tomorrow’s television viewing could be a mashup of documentary meets fiction meets mockumentary.
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From award-winning drama series to movies, the US streaming network enters a "small" but growing on-demand video streaming local market.
Richard Li’s PCCW plans to launch a video-on-demand service in South Africa to compete with Netflix and local Naspers offering ShowMax.
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Content and cost will determine the success of video-on-demand, which is coming of age in SA.
At last, television viewers in South Africa are being given real alternatives to the fare forced on them.
SA has been circumventing restrictions on the US-based Netflix service, but that’s not what has changed video-on-demand, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
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New shows for the small screen range from a sci-fi thriller to comedies and historical dramas.
Mounting allegations of rape and sexual assault against entertainer Bill Cosby has resulted in a Netflix special series on his life being postponed.
The launch of the VIDI video-on-demand service signals a dramatic shift in the way South Africans will consume movies, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
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YouTube is doubling the size of its online video store in an expansion that will make more movies available for internet streaming.
Under the premium movie-on-demand service, film lovers will be able to stream new releases for as little as $2.
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/ 18 February 2008
Investors cheered an impending end to a format war for next-generation DVDs on Monday, pushing up shares of both Toshiba, on the verge of abandoning its HD DVD discs, and Sony, the leader of the rival Blu-ray camp. Toshiba shares jumped 5,1% as analysts praised its decision to cut its losses.
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/ 14 January 2008
Girding for a potential threat from Apple, online DVD rental service Netflix is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed internet connections. The change will become effective on Monday, on the eve of Apple’s widely anticipated move into the movie rental industry.