14-03-2012, 09:13
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Still alive and fighting
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...tflix-lovefilm
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BSkyB's battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost, after the Competition Commission announced it will broaden its investigation to measure the impact of Netflix and LoveFilm.
Last summer the competition regulator published a provisional decision that BSkyB's contracts with the six major Hollywood studios – Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios – were anti-competitive and needed to be weakened to allow rivals to flourish.
On Wednesday the long-running investigation, which published a revised deadline of July for delivering its final report, said that it needed to extend the consultation to take into account changes in the movie market.
The Competition Commission admitted it needed to assess "potentially relevant" developments, in particular the arrival of US giant Netflix which launched in the UK and Ireland in January.
The commission also pointed to the need to assess LoveFilm, which is owned by internet retailer Amazon and has extended its rental-by-post model to offer streaming movies to customers.
BSkyB recently announced that it intends to launch its own internet service, which will include Sky Movies, that will stand alone from its TV channel subscription offering
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Interesting development.
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