Telstra Bigpond announces deal with Fox Studios = Win for Samsung TV Customers
Telstra has announced that they have struck up a content deal with Rupert Murdoch owned Twentieth Century Fox Studio, which will see its IPTV service grow to 2500 movies before the end of the year.
This is a fantastic boost for all Australian consumers, for years we have been lagging far behind America and Europe in terms of Video on Demand content that is available through either our TV’s, Media Players or Computers, leading to Australia having the one of the highest rates of Piracy (Not the swashbuckling bearded kind). This means consumers will now be able to watch new release movies on their devices sooner then they ever have before.
Titles that will be available on Bigpond’s Movie service will include Black Swan and Gulliver’s Travels. Whilst there will be a large selection of older content such as the popular Devil Wears Prada (For the women) and X-Men Trilogy (For the men) amongst many others.
Another bonus is that both Movies and Television shows will be unmetered for Telstra customers, in layman’s terms this means that when you watch/download these movies it wont eat into your internet limit if you are on Telstra. Considering that movies are large files this is something which is very handy.
What we at ELJO.com.au are most excited about is that the Bigpond Movie service is available on Samsungs 2011 range of Smart TV’s, which means you don’t need any additional hardware to access it. Considering we believe that Samsung’s 2011 range are some of the best LED, Plasma and LCD TV’s on the market this is just an added bonus.
For more information relating to Samsung’s Bigpond service see the Samsung website by clicking here.
What do you guys think about Bigpond Movies on Samsung’s new Smart Hub? We’d love to hear from our customers who use this functionality.
