paulw
06-06-2008, 09:39 AM
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=289&objectid=10514702
"State-owned phone company Kordia has cut the cord with Hollywood.
The SOE - which has a key role in running Freeview - has shelved plans for a new Internet Protocol TV service through its internet service provider Orcon.
Orcon chief executive Scott Bartlett was proudly talking about potential for its new IPTV - programming downloaded off the internet - using new faster broadband. He showed it using new Apple TV hardware to get programming from the web from computer on to a TV set.
That was in March, and it appeared that when Kordia bought Orcon for $23.2 million this time last year it was behind the IPTV plan.
But Kordia chief executive Geoff Hunt said the company had pulled back from the IPTV idea.
"It's now on a list of things that could occur in the future. It takes a lot of broadband and there were no signs how it was going to deliver a commercial return or where it had done so overseas."
An issue for the service would have been obtaining the copyright to films and TV shows which would require IPTV rights.
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Sky Television has been actively buying up IPTV rights for programmes including those it screens on Sky and Prime.
Bartlett had indicated that talks with US programme supplies were relatively advanced.
But Hunt said that the plans had not got to the point of securing programming.
Hollywood studios have been keen to have a legal download site to counter the growth of illegal downloads.
But as the Business Herald revealed, Sky TV has signed a deal with movie studios for its own IPTV site."
I guess with Sky buying up all the rights thay can we can kiss the AppleTV or Vudu model goodbye in NZ. Sky no doubt will want you to pay a Sky sub before you can use their IPTV service just as they do now for their existing "watch on PC only" service.
"State-owned phone company Kordia has cut the cord with Hollywood.
The SOE - which has a key role in running Freeview - has shelved plans for a new Internet Protocol TV service through its internet service provider Orcon.
Orcon chief executive Scott Bartlett was proudly talking about potential for its new IPTV - programming downloaded off the internet - using new faster broadband. He showed it using new Apple TV hardware to get programming from the web from computer on to a TV set.
That was in March, and it appeared that when Kordia bought Orcon for $23.2 million this time last year it was behind the IPTV plan.
But Kordia chief executive Geoff Hunt said the company had pulled back from the IPTV idea.
"It's now on a list of things that could occur in the future. It takes a lot of broadband and there were no signs how it was going to deliver a commercial return or where it had done so overseas."
An issue for the service would have been obtaining the copyright to films and TV shows which would require IPTV rights.
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Sky Television has been actively buying up IPTV rights for programmes including those it screens on Sky and Prime.
Bartlett had indicated that talks with US programme supplies were relatively advanced.
But Hunt said that the plans had not got to the point of securing programming.
Hollywood studios have been keen to have a legal download site to counter the growth of illegal downloads.
But as the Business Herald revealed, Sky TV has signed a deal with movie studios for its own IPTV site."
I guess with Sky buying up all the rights thay can we can kiss the AppleTV or Vudu model goodbye in NZ. Sky no doubt will want you to pay a Sky sub before you can use their IPTV service just as they do now for their existing "watch on PC only" service.