The terrestrial TV channel ITV has signed up on a deal that will see films from the NBC Universal television stable making their premiere on any of the four main ITV channels.

These films will be blockbusting Mamma Mia, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Boat That Rocked, Hot Fuzz and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Under this arrangement, ITV will also be getting some popular new and classic TV shows, such as Monk which will be shown on ITV1 and Ironside which will be shown on ITV3.

This is a highly unusual deal that will see films and TV shows from one studio being broadcast by one channel, but both sides appear to be happy with the deal, while the viewer gets some great content.

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Movie deal for ITV

Optibase, which leads the market in solutions for advanced video, announced yesterday that TMC (Technology Marketing Corporation) named the company’s EZ TV System as the award winner of its 2009 IPV Excellence Award.
The award was presented by the Internet Telephony magazine and will be featured in the September 2009 issue of the magazine.
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EZ TV System wins TMC award

Just in, here’s a cost breakdown for someone planning on having a lot of regular viewers on Mogulus reported verbatim:

2$1.50 per gigabyte for bandwidth on Mog Pro. They include 25GB in their base plan at $350/mo.

If we’re streaming at the basic 500 Kbps, that amounts to 3.75 MB/min or 225 MB/hour.
So if we had 11 people watch us for 10 hours, that’s 225MB x 11 x 10 = 25 GB gone.

If we have 1000 people watching for one hour, say a Christmas parade, that will amount to 225 GB. At $1.50 per GB, that will cost us $337.50 for that hour.

ONE person watching for 24 hours would eat up 5.4GB ($8.10)

If we were to average about 1000 viewers over a 24 hour period (with it peaking mid-day and petering off at night) that would amount to 5400 GB, or $8,100. FOR ONE DAY. It would be a quarter million a month to operate at that level.

Unfortunately this isn’t entirely hard to believe. Bandwidth is, and always has been prohibitively expensive. Sorry to rain on the parade, but we should have realized this was too good to be true.”

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Rich Movie Mogul

Verizon Inks Content Pacts In Advance of IPTV Launch – May 2, 2005

Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday unveiled additional programming for the launch of its TV network later this year, a small step toward the telecommunications company’s head-to-head competition with cable and satellite TV operators.

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