Daily Update for December 16, 1999:
Time Warner Launches VOD
in Hawaii
Los Angeles -- Time Warner Cable launched
its first full-fledged consumer video-on-demand
service earlier this month, president Glenn Britt
announced during a luncheon keynote at the
pre-Western Show workshop here sponsored
by the Cable & Telecommunications Association
for Marketing.
The movies-oriented service launched to 5,000
homes on Oahu, and it will be available to homes
on the rest of the island by the end of January,
Britt said, adding that the service is too new to
have information on buy-rates. Time Warner is
charging $3.95 per movie.
The MSO plans to add VOD in Tampa, Fla.,
and Austin, Texas, sometime next year, with
additional markets following in 2001, Britt said
after the luncheon.
Time Warner had already launched VOD
services to hotel customers in Hawaii and
Manhattan. And the MSO tested VOD and
other new interactive services earlier this decade
in Orlando, Fla.
For its consumer VOD services, Time Warner is
working with two technology vendors --
Concurrent Computer Corp. and SeaChange
International Inc. -- Britt said.
He added that the MSO is also looking at
adding subscription VOD packages for
premium-movie services. Although he would not
indicate a timetable for such a launch, Britt said
Time Warner was likely to add subscription
VOD from Home Box Office before a
competing service from Showtime Networks
Inc.
- 12/15/99
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