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  • Spuul features Yash Raj Films ‘Sultan’ digitally

    Spuul features Yash Raj Films ‘Sultan’ digitally

    MUMBAI: Spuul is featuring Yash Raj Films’ latest blockbuster Sultan digitally by adding it to its catalogue of movies. The movie will be available across devices like Web, mobile (iOS, Android), Smart TV (Samsung, Panasonic, LG), Airplay on iOS, Fire on Amazon and Chromecast on Android to viewers all over the world.

    Sultan, one of the highest grossing Indian films of all time, is a 2016 Indian romantic sports-drama film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. Produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner, the film stars Salman Khan opposite Anushka Sharma. The film focuses on Sultan Ali Khan, a wrestling champion from Haryana, whose successful career creates a rift in his personal life.

    Speaking at this milestone, Spuul Global CEO Subin Subaiah said, “With increased internet penetration, smartphone usage and the increasing affordability of data plans, there is also increase in the amount of viewers moving online to consume content. At Spuul, we are constantly striving to bring the latest, best and most awaited films to our viewers in our endeavor to bridge the gap between a film’s theatrical and digital release. Sultan is just another of our steps in this direction.”

    “Our association with Spuul goes back a long way, with Spuul providing our films with a platform to reach out to viewers in the most remote corners of the world – We believe Sultan will get the same or more traction that our previous films have received thus far”, said Yash Raj Films vice president digital Anand Gurnani.

  • Spuul features Yash Raj Films ‘Sultan’ digitally

    Spuul features Yash Raj Films ‘Sultan’ digitally

    MUMBAI: Spuul is featuring Yash Raj Films’ latest blockbuster Sultan digitally by adding it to its catalogue of movies. The movie will be available across devices like Web, mobile (iOS, Android), Smart TV (Samsung, Panasonic, LG), Airplay on iOS, Fire on Amazon and Chromecast on Android to viewers all over the world.

    Sultan, one of the highest grossing Indian films of all time, is a 2016 Indian romantic sports-drama film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. Produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner, the film stars Salman Khan opposite Anushka Sharma. The film focuses on Sultan Ali Khan, a wrestling champion from Haryana, whose successful career creates a rift in his personal life.

    Speaking at this milestone, Spuul Global CEO Subin Subaiah said, “With increased internet penetration, smartphone usage and the increasing affordability of data plans, there is also increase in the amount of viewers moving online to consume content. At Spuul, we are constantly striving to bring the latest, best and most awaited films to our viewers in our endeavor to bridge the gap between a film’s theatrical and digital release. Sultan is just another of our steps in this direction.”

    “Our association with Spuul goes back a long way, with Spuul providing our films with a platform to reach out to viewers in the most remote corners of the world – We believe Sultan will get the same or more traction that our previous films have received thus far”, said Yash Raj Films vice president digital Anand Gurnani.

  • Hotstar Premium to air Premier League 2016, live and exclusive

    Hotstar Premium to air Premier League 2016, live and exclusive

    MUMBAI: Streaming platform Hotstar is now bringing all the matches of the Premier League, LIVE and exclusive starting on Saturday, the 13th of August.

    Hotstar is set to be the go-to destination for football aficionados this Premier League season. All 380 games being played across 9 action-packed months, will be streamed LIVE on to the mobile and web screens of viewers. Hotstar has also added Chromecast and Apple TV support so that users can now enjoy streaming matches to large TV screens, making it an all-encompassing experience.

    The Premier League is one of the most followed football leagues in the world, and often, as many as 4 or 5 matches are played simultaneously across different venues. In fact, on Day 1, i.e. Saturday, the 13th of August, 5 games will be live simultaneously, and Hotstar will show all the games. So a football fan subscribed to Hotstar Premium will be able to switch between multiple separate LIVE feeds and watch any game he wants to.

    To watch the Premier League, viewers can subscribe to the Hotstar Premium service at premium.hotstar.com and enjoy a full month of subscription free of cost. Following this, the service is available at a monthly fee of Rs. 199. Apart from all the Premier League games LIVE, Hotstar Premium also gives the viewers access to the latest American TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters like ’The Martian’, the and latest episodes of their favorite Indian TV shows.

  • Hotstar Premium to air Premier League 2016, live and exclusive

    Hotstar Premium to air Premier League 2016, live and exclusive

    MUMBAI: Streaming platform Hotstar is now bringing all the matches of the Premier League, LIVE and exclusive starting on Saturday, the 13th of August.

    Hotstar is set to be the go-to destination for football aficionados this Premier League season. All 380 games being played across 9 action-packed months, will be streamed LIVE on to the mobile and web screens of viewers. Hotstar has also added Chromecast and Apple TV support so that users can now enjoy streaming matches to large TV screens, making it an all-encompassing experience.

    The Premier League is one of the most followed football leagues in the world, and often, as many as 4 or 5 matches are played simultaneously across different venues. In fact, on Day 1, i.e. Saturday, the 13th of August, 5 games will be live simultaneously, and Hotstar will show all the games. So a football fan subscribed to Hotstar Premium will be able to switch between multiple separate LIVE feeds and watch any game he wants to.

    To watch the Premier League, viewers can subscribe to the Hotstar Premium service at premium.hotstar.com and enjoy a full month of subscription free of cost. Following this, the service is available at a monthly fee of Rs. 199. Apart from all the Premier League games LIVE, Hotstar Premium also gives the viewers access to the latest American TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters like ’The Martian’, the and latest episodes of their favorite Indian TV shows.

  • OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    NEW DELHI: Digital Over the Top sevice Eros Now has become available on the Apple TV media platform, Eros International Plc announced today.

    The announcement made simultaneously in New Delhi and London said Eros Now is now showcasing its extensive repository of Bollywood and regional language films and music videos, across Apple TV’s presence in 80 key countries including the USA, UK, India, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia.

    The Indian entertainment service includes full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression (users can continue watching a title they were watching on TV, mobile, tablet or computer) and access to a watchlist of titles discovered on any media platform that Eros Now is available on.

    Subscribers can now download the Eros Now app through the Apple TV App Store.

    Eros Digital CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “We are pleased to announce Eros Now’s further expansion to additional media platforms offered by Apple, an illustrious global brand. With the success of our iOS application on iPhone and iPad, we are strengthening our connection to our subscribers who are using Apple’s products everyday by now bringing a compelling array of Bollywood and regional language content to their living room.”

    The Apple TV association reaffirms Eros Now’s presence across top streaming devices. The app is available across most smart TV platforms including Android TV, Samsung, Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV.

  • OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    NEW DELHI: Digital Over the Top sevice Eros Now has become available on the Apple TV media platform, Eros International Plc announced today.

    The announcement made simultaneously in New Delhi and London said Eros Now is now showcasing its extensive repository of Bollywood and regional language films and music videos, across Apple TV’s presence in 80 key countries including the USA, UK, India, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia.

    The Indian entertainment service includes full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression (users can continue watching a title they were watching on TV, mobile, tablet or computer) and access to a watchlist of titles discovered on any media platform that Eros Now is available on.

    Subscribers can now download the Eros Now app through the Apple TV App Store.

    Eros Digital CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “We are pleased to announce Eros Now’s further expansion to additional media platforms offered by Apple, an illustrious global brand. With the success of our iOS application on iPhone and iPad, we are strengthening our connection to our subscribers who are using Apple’s products everyday by now bringing a compelling array of Bollywood and regional language content to their living room.”

    The Apple TV association reaffirms Eros Now’s presence across top streaming devices. The app is available across most smart TV platforms including Android TV, Samsung, Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV.

  • Spuul premieres Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Jazbaa’

    Spuul premieres Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Jazbaa’

    MUMBAI: Spuul has added Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s comeback thriller Jazbaa to its library. 

     

    This movie will be available for viewers across the world via premium subscription services. This will be a digital premiere for Spuul.

     

    Jazbaa is a thriller drama, which sees Aishwarya Rai Bachchan portraying the role of a prominent criminal lawyer, who is trying to protect her daughter from the clutches of a kidnaper. This movie also stars Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Atul Kulkarni and others. 

     

    Jazbaa will be available on Spuul across platforms such as web, mobile, smart TVs and Chromecast.

     

    Spuul Global CEO Subin Subaiah said, “We have added Jazbaa after two months of its theatrical release. It is our aim to continue our efforts and keep updating our library. We will continue to solicit engagements with content partners to provide the best and fresh content to our viewers.”

  • HOOQ expands viewing experience with Google Chromecast

    HOOQ expands viewing experience with Google Chromecast

    MUMBAI: In a bid to expand the viewing experience of users in the country and address the home entertainment market, video-on-demand service HOOQ app’s latest version will support Google Chromecast.

    With this, HOOQ subscribers will now be able to use Chromecast to cast movies and TV series from any connected device to their television screens. HOOQ offers unlimited streaming of over 15,000 English, Hindi and regional language films as well as TV shows on its platform. 

    HOOQ chief marketing officer Ravi Vora said, “We are very thrilled to bring the best in class entertainment from HOOQ to Chromecast users enabling them to enjoy the best content on their televisions right in their living rooms. We believe this partnership further solidifies our position as the country’s biggest premium video-on-demand service.”

    Chromecast is a thumb-sized media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on TVs. Viewers can use an Android phone, tablet, iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows laptop, or Chromebook to cast the HOOQ app and its programming onto a television.

    HOOQ launched in India earlier this year with a subscription price of Rs 199 per month. Users can access entertainment content, which can be viewed on upto five connected devices. The service also offers a unique offline download feature of up to five titles at a time ensuring that there is always video content to be enjoyed even when users are offline or facing connectivity challenges.

    Customers, who purchase Google Chromecast through Snapdeal and Reliance Digital, will get free access to HOOQ for six months, which is worth Rs 1500.  

    Some of the content that is available on HOOQ includes movies like The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3,Don, Chennai Express, Barffi, Kai Po Che, Lai Bhaari, Harishchandrachi Factory and Chandrmukhi, and TV shows like Friends, Nip Tuck, ER and first and exclusively in Asia – Ash vs. Evil Dead.

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  • Spuul inks deal with MSM to stream shows from Sony and Sab

    Spuul inks deal with MSM to stream shows from Sony and Sab

    MUMBAI:  Online streaming service for Indian TV & film content, Spuul has inked a partnership with Multi Screen Media (MSM) to stream their TV shows from the Sony stable on the digital platform in India.

     

    Spuul users from India can now watch these shows on all second screen devices including mobile phones, tablets, web, smart TVs as well as stream to their TVs via Chromecast.

     

    In the current partnership, audiences from India will benefit from Spuul’s download feature, which will also allow them to download the TV shows on their devices apart from streaming. The shows from Sony Entertainment Television and SAB TV, which will be available on Spuul are Adalat, CID, Maharana Pratap, Chidiya Ghar, Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasma and Hum Hai Na. These shows can be viewed for free on Spuul.

     

    Spuul CEO Subin Subaiah said, “India ranks fourth in world for content consumption. With 4G roll out, these numbers are expected to rise tremendously. Spuul data shows that about 80 per cent content is being consumed on mobile devices. Such partnerships reflect an increase in user figures and help us to provide content to our users on the go.”

     

    MSM EVP and head – digital business Uday Sodhi added, “We’re delighted to partner with Spuul to widen our reach. The second screen is quickly becoming the primary screen and it’s important for us to ensure that our content is available to all audiences across platforms and this association will certainly go a long way in making that happen.”

  • Americans adopt digital apps for Netflix

    Americans adopt digital apps for Netflix

    NEW DELHI: A growing number of American households are relying on dedicated set-top/plug-in devices (otherwise known as Digital Media Players) to watch Netflix on a TV set, according to a GfK study, Over-the-Top TV 2014.

     

    By contrast, video game systems – while still the most common hardware for Netflix viewing on a TV screen – are used much less than they were three years ago

     

    The report shows that 28 per cent of those who stream Netflix on a TV used a digital media player (such as Roku, Apple TV, or Chromecast) to do so; this is nearly double the 2013 level (15 per cent) and roughly five times the 2011 figure (6 per cent). The surge comes as ownership of the players among all homes has increased tenfold – from 2 per cent to 21 per cent – since 2010.

     

    Streaming capabilities built into today’s higher-end TV sets have also become popular, with use of built-in streaming reported by 28 per cent of those who watch Netflix on TV – up from 20 per cent a year ago and 13 per cent in 2011.

     

    On the other hand, reports of watching Netflix on TV through a videogame system have dropped to 43 per cent – down 5 percentage points from 2013, and almost 20 per cent below the 2011 level which was 62 per cent.

     

    The new report also indicates wide generational differences in how people access Netflix. Generations X and Y are twice as likely as Baby Boomers to use a videogame system to watch Netflix on TV. Capabilities built into TV sets are highly favoured by Gen Y Netflix viewers, and both Generations X and Y show strong use of digital media players.

     

    “The wide variations in devices used – and in preferred device by age – speak to a need for Netflix and other SVoD providers to optimise the user experience for each situation,” said GfK Senior Vice President and author of the report David Tice.

     

    “Not only do the device interface and remote control need to be user-friendly, but things like on-screen font size and menus need to be age-appropriate. With a quarter of Netflix users also being Amazon Prime or Hulu viewers, there is a potential battle in user experience as well as in variety and exclusivity of content,” he added.

     

    Meanwhile, Belgian telco Belgacom which has adopted a new identity as Proximus also plans to add entertainment streaming service Netflix to its Proximus TV offering.

     

    Confirming the news, Belgacom Chief Consumer Market Officer Phillip Vandervoort said that Netflix was without doubt a very eagerly-awaited new player. “I’m proud to announce this partnership which reflects the dynamics of our new brand and enables us to offer an amazing experience to our customers on Proximus TV.” 

     

    Netflix started offering its service in Belgium on 19 September, giving people access to a wide variety of TV shows, films, documentaries and other programming, according to Advanced Television.

     

    Installation of the Netflix application on the new-generation decoders will begin at the end of 2014. ‘Ultimately all Proximus TV customers will be able to access Netflix on their TV sets,’ added the telco.