iPhone app lets you order movies from Shaw
Canada’s largest cable provider, Shaw, has released an iOS app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, that gives its digital cable customer the ability to order Video on Demand (VOD) movies.
Features include the ability to: search Shaw VOD library by title, new releases or genre; maintain a list of selections to watch in My Picks; and order movies and TV episodes for viewing.
Netflix coming to Canada this fall
California based Netflix said today that it will be expanding its online subscription video-on-demand service to Canadians beginning this fall.
The company says English speaking customers in Canada will be able to watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes on their home computers or on their television via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix.
Shaw latest to roll out Internet VOD
Following in the footsteps of its cable and satellite competitors, Shaw Cable yesterday rolled out an Internet video on demand service where subscribers can order pay per view movies online and then watch them via cable or the internet.
In order to use the new service, users must be Shaw Digital Cable customers with at least one digital cable box and must subscribe to Shaw Internet.
Videotron launches online video portal
Videotron today announced the launch of “illico web,” a new online service which will Videotron digital cable customers access to video content from 32 television channels including TVA, Radio-Canada, LCN, RDI, Meteomedia, Super Ecran and MusiquePlus.
Content from eight popular English language channels such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, YTV and Treehouse Television will also be included.
2010 FIFA World Cup coming to Rogers On Demand
ogers Communications announced this week it would make all 64 2010 FIFA World Cup matches available for viewing on its Rogers Video on demand service.
With nearly two-thirds of tournament matches broadcast live from South Africa on CBC, Radio-Canada and Teletino during the Canadian workday, the on demand option will be welcome by many soccer fans.
Delta Cable launches Video On Demand Service
Delta Cable, a division of Eastlink, has launched a Video On Demand service for customers in North Delta, Tsawwassen and Ladner.
Select cable companies to offer Olympic VOD coverage
CTV and Rogers media have announced plans to offer viewers at select Canadian cable companies more than 700 hours of Video On Demand television coverage of the 2010 Winter Games.
Video on Demand (VOD) is a digital cable television service which allows a viewer to order a television program from an on-screen menu and have it delivered instantly to the television set, typically with the ability to pause, stop, rewind and fast forward programming.
Rogers on Demand online fails to impress
In late November, at a posh hotel in downtown Toronto, Rogers Cable unveiled Rogers on Demand Online (RODO) which the company in hyperbolic fashion claimed was the “Next Big Thing in Television”
After it first launched, Rogers customers gave the service a resounding thumbs down with comments like “RODO is a BOMB-O!” and complaints about the lack of content and too many BlackBerry ads.
