{"id":10502,"date":"2009-11-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:23:00","slug":"movies-on-demand-over-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/10502-movies-on-demand-over-adsl.html","title":{"rendered":"Movies on Demand over ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well known Internet Service Provider (ISP) Axxess has launched their DSL&#8217;s Digital Delivery of Media, offering subscribers a service to download and watch movies or programs on their PC or Mac.&nbsp; The service makes use of OttoVod movie playback which is powered by DivX.<\/p>\n<p>Movie rentals range between R10 and R35 while purchasing a movie cost between R75 and R150 per title.&nbsp; The typical size of a movie or program is between 300MB and 1GB.&nbsp; At this stage the bandwidth for downloads will be charged which significantly increases the price, but Axxess said that they are working on a &ldquo;better price for the local only accounts&rdquo; and that this will be available soon.<\/p>\n<p>There are various content categories to choose from, including new releases, music, sport, health and adult.&nbsp; The price of individual movies is not yet available on OttoVod, something which Axxess said will be addressed in future.<\/p>\n<p>Other service providers which are currently using the OttoVod service include GTS &ndash;who typically provide subscribers within the gated communities which they serve with VoD services &ndash; and Black Earth Communications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=203413\"><strong>Video on Demand over ADSL<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISP launches \u2018DSL&#039;s Digital Delivery of Media\u2019, allowing subscribers to rent or buy movies and programs online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}