Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+
8 Mar 2012
Sky has expanded its pay-per-view movie offering for customers with Sky Anytime+. The new Sky Store replaces Sky Box Office and has over 1000 films available to watch on-demand.
SD movies start at just 99p, rising to £3.99 for blockbuster new movies in HD.
Sky also confirmed that Sky Anytime+ will be available to all Sky customers from Easter - a Sky Broadband subscription will no longer be required.
Sky Anytime+ delivers a wide range of on-demand content for free as well as offering pay-per-view films.
Sky is at pains to point out that its pay-per-view movies, via the new Sky Store if you're an Anytime+ customer, are cheaper than iTunes and Lovefilm in many instances.
New releases are £3.49, library movies are £1.99 and special offers are 99p. HD films rather than SD will cost 50p more.
Sky Box Office will continue as the place for non-Sky Anytime+ customers to choose from a more limited range of the latest movies on the live channels from £3.49 per title.
All Sky TV customers meanwhile can rent movies on a pay-per-view basis from the new Sky Store on laptops via the Sky Go application, which already has a Sky Movies application, too.
which application stores have the highest percentage of free apps
Android Market was the winner here. In
Google attracts the sort of developers that enjoy giving away their works and the open nature of the application- approval process (that is, no review board middleman exists between app creation and public release)
' dissatisfaction with Google Checkout - paid Android apps are required to implement this payment method for purchase
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prices for the paid applications
RIM and Microsoft were more than twice as high
didn't necessarily have to do with the different types of applications
Android is now the second-largest application store
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Apple is also the fastest growing store with a shocking 13,865 new applications added per mont
popularity of applications by category
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absence of any form of review process has led to new forms of store flooding and other variety of spams in the form of applications that are just gateways to websites
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will an iPhone app deliver return on investment (ROI)
ll you can do are some crude calculations based on the three numbers that Apple releases
extra cost of adding a second and third smartphone platform is 30-50 percent of the original investment.
Average revenue per paid-app: US $6,259.78.
normal for an app to cost US $50,000 to
don’t get picked by the Apple reviewers, you don’t get featured.
iPhone users have on average 37 apps on their phones
cross-promote your app for free
SMS/email opt-in lists,
media love writing about anything you do;
, mobiThinking is not alone in querying the economics of the App Store model: see Tomi Ahonen.
And this honest first-hand app experience from Tom Hume, a design director at a London agency called IDEO, is fascinating.
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huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
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HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
£145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
The Death of Bunny Munro, w
transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
mass media to develop media franchises
type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
Wal-Mart has so far lacked a way to deliver movies digitally to people’s homes
Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices
46 million monthly smartphone application users across the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Spain, whose installed base is growing by over 10%, month-over-month
46 million monthly smartphone application users across the U.K