Demonstrating the ever-increasing opportunities that the Internet provides, Europe’s largest Internet provider T-Online has secured deals for top Hollywood and German films that will allow it to show movies over the Internet.
T-Online, a division of Deutsche Telekom, gains access to the library and new movies of Hollywoods Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and to German blockbusters from Constantin Film. “This landmark agreement speaks to the promising future of video-on-demand worldwide,” Jim Griffiths, President of MGM Worldwide Television Distribution, said in a statement.
T-Online’s rival Tiscali has been offering weekly movie webcasts for the past year. But T-Online’s broadband project T-Online Vision on TV, to be launched by the end of the year, will connect a regular TV set through a set-top box to the Internet so that the movies can be watched on a regular screen.
International broadcasters must ensure that they find equal facilities for their products