Europe’s largest online subscription service LoveFilm has launched its WatchNow video service on Oregan Networks’ Onyx media browser. The media browser is pre-installed on Net-connected devices like TV sets and STBs. The move increases the number of TVs and STBs that can access LoveFilm.
Oregan Networks says it’s the leading developer of media browsing technologies for connected TVs. It has widgets and apps such as BBC iPlayer, Blinkbox, Accede Funspot, YouTube, Flickr, Disney Movie Previews, The CNN Daily, Jamie’s Ministry of Food Recipes, Discovery Channel Video Podcasts, Sesame Street Podcast, Twitter, Facebook and others.
Oregan’s LoveFilm service will appear on new connected devices including Cello iViewer televisions and DigitalStream DPS-1000 set-top boxes.
Both Netflix and Amazon-owned LoveFilm stream movies and TV shows over the Net and send DVDs by mail. The LoveFilm online service is available in Europe on Internet-connected devices including Sony and Samsung smart TVs plus Sony’s PlayStation.
LoveFilm said it uses Widevine as its preferred provider of DRM. It has over 70,000 titles in Blu-ray, DVDs, video games and digital streaming and nearly 1.6 million members in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. It operates what once was the Amazon DVD rental service.
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