A no-frills interface includes only a few sections: My Vudu (your library), Movies on Us (Vudu's collection of free-to-stream fare), Search and Settings.
Notably, this would apparently only work over WiFi, which is hardly surprising given AT&T's reluctance to let stream-heavy fare on its network.
Heavy utilization of mass transportation can produce a larger revenue stream from passenger fares, which can help support these systems, either by reducing subsidy requirements or, in a few very high-density travel corridors, actually covering all the costs of providing mass transportation.
That was when internet radio was in its infancy, terrestrial radio was still dishing out squeaky analogue fare, streaming music to mobile phones was unheard of, and iPods had yet to reign supreme.
Its finance managing director Steve Allen acknowledges that, in the context of an overall annual TfL budget of £9-£10bn, the additional income generated won't be "transformational" but says it is well worthwhile to be "building a commercial business that sits alongside our traditional funding streams of the fare box and grant from central government and in a sense reduces our reliance on them".
The on-demand video platform is intended to "promote and encourage national movie productions," but that it will also stream international and regional fare, the law said.
According to a University of Southern California study on diversity in 414 films and television shows released Monday, streaming content repeatedly fared better than Hollywood film in measures of diversity -- particularly gender.
"Even the businesses that might be called upon to pay it would be better served by having that affordable revenue stream there, and an affordable fare," Mr. Silver said.
Showmen like James Cameron, I suspect, will continue to haul us off our couches for the grand, marquee events, but smaller fare may be streamed to us direct, and new films whittled down into just another channel on TV.
But label executives say older artists with a library of once-popular releases fare surprisingly well on streaming services.
Nokia didn't fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited.
