The company last year decided to scrap its subscription video-on-demand plans, promoted its creator business lead Anjali Sud to CEO, and acquired live video streaming platform Livestream.
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The video-on-demand plan, news of which emerged in press reports, was not formally announced.
Universal stressed that it still expected to work out a viable on-demand plan with the help of theater owners.
But executives with several of the studios, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid conflict, said they had repeatedly told theater executives that they were closing in on the details of a premium on-demand plan, the broad outlines of which had been publicly discussed for months.
"It came as a significant surprise," said Mr. Fithian — though he acknowledged that his organization had opposed a years-long battle by the association Mr. Dodd now leads to win Federal Communications Commission approval, granted last May, for the use of antipiracy technology that allowed the new on-demand plan to proceed.
"I think it will do harm," Sidney J. Sheinberg, who was president of MCA in Mr. Wasserman's era, said of the new on-demand plan — yet Mr. Sheinberg also acknowledged that he had been wrong in seeing videocassettes as a threat, rather than a boon, to the studios in the early 1980s.
Chaisiri et al. [34] proposed a resource provisioning mechanism in cloud computing to offer cloud users two resource provisioning plans, namely, on-demand plan and reservation plan.
As far as on-demand content goes, Hulu with Live TV offers the basic on-demand plan that most Hulu users are familiar with.
Rather, it's a case of helping everyone become better informed – having the knowledge and confidence to have more say on planning decisions, and to demand planning officers and planning committees work on their behalf".
