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Quickflix to succeed Telstra BigPond DVD rental service

DVD rental subscription company to inherit a library of movie discs and equipment from the soon-to-be dumped Telstra DVD rental business

DVD rental subscription company, Quickflix, has entered into an agreement with Telstra to take over from the telco’s soon-to-be canned BigPond Movies DVD rental service.

Telstra will close off that side of the business on September 30.

The decision was made after increased efforts by the telco to push its movies-over-broadband model. It recently struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to distribute films through the BigPond Movies platform.

Existing customers of BigPond Movies DVD will be given a choice to continue their rental service through Quickflix.

“Quickflix will make a variable payment to Telstra based on the number of customers who transfer to its DVD rental service,” the DVD rental company said in a statement. “Quickflix will also acquire BigPond’s library of DVD and Blu-ray discs and equipment.

A number of ISPs have adopted IPTV solutions to distribute online multimedia content often with incentives such as unmetered downloads when movies are consumed through a certain content portal.

IPTV content supplier, FetchTV has already signed deals with ISPs such as iiNet, Internode, Adam Internet and Optus.

Nominations for the 2012 ARN IT Industry Awards open on Tuesday, June 12.

More about: Adam Internet, iiNet, Internode, Optus, Quickflix, Telstra, Twentieth Century Fox
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vaestanfors

Mon 04/07/2011 - 15:56

I wont be transferring to Quickflix as movies over the internet just suck with the slow speeds we have here and considering the copper network will go soon, it might be time to go naked.

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