Apple has announced it will soon be offering top Hollywood and European studio film downloads in Ireland and France, through its iTunes Store.

These will be made available for the consumer to buy or to rent.

Most of the main studios will be covered including: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Pathe, and Lionsgate UK.

The price of buying a film will vary from 7.99 euros to 13.99 euros, whereas a rental can cost anything from 2.99 euros to 3.99 euros.

An HD version will cost an extra 1 euro.

Under the rental agreement, the user has thirty days to watch the film and once started they will have forty eight hours to complete the viewing.

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Following a period of some indecision over the awarding of mobile TV licences, it seems that the French media regulator, the CSA, has made the decision to award Virgin Mobile, and the transmitter installation firm TDF, the licence to launch a mobile TV service in France.

This decision means that the development of this system can begin, despite there being issues previously with broadcasters and mobile communication operator actually taking the plunge to develop a network for this service.

It is now up to the CSA to set the ball rolling by nominating a multiplex operator before the 8th June.

Once this has been done the service can quickly go ahead to provide the consumer with a choice of thirteen private and three public channels.

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Virgin launches mobile TV in France

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France Télévisions’ directory board has this week suspended negotiations with consortium Lov-Publicis over the acquisition of 70% of the public service broadcaster’s advertising subsidiary.

French public group has explained its decision by the fact that the full 2011 ad-ban, initially settled by law, on public networks is still too uncertain at the moment to go on talking.

During the week before Mip TV, several deputies pleaded for advertising to be maintained in daytime on public channels. The debate is still roaring up right now.

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Pan-European culture and opera music HD channel Brava HDTV has joined the high definition platform of French IPTV operator SFR.

Dutch-based, advertising-free, and specializing in native HD programming, this is the channel’s last strategic move in France.

Brava HDTV is already part of the line-up of IPTV platforms Free and Alice as well as cabsat offers Numericable and CanalSat.

At the beginning of the year, SFR registered more than 4.23 million customers.

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France Télévisions will launch its own catch-up TV service available to all internet users in the second part of 2010, the group announced.

The new service becomes possible as an exclusive catch-up TV deal with Orange comes to its end on April 21.

FTV’s service will offer, through a centralized platform, all kinds of programmes including drama coming from the various channels. Until now the group was able to broadcast a few shows and news editions only.

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