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Australian cinema chain Hoyts will launch its own video-on-demand streaming service in the first quarter of the New Year. Hoyts Stream, as the new venture will be called, will support multi-device access and offer consumers a pay-as-you-go model for new release as well as classic movies and TV content. Hoyts Stream will …

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  1. tkioz

    Sounds interesting, the questions now are if the price will be stupidly high (i.e higher then the ticket to the cinema) and how much of a PITA will the service be to use (i.e will be it simpler to torrent it).

    Too many companies rush out "services" that are stupidly expensive and annoyingly complex to use.

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    1. Magani
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      In the immortal words of Monica Dickens,

      Emma Chisit?

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      1. Mike 29
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        Re: In the immortal words of Monica Dickens,

        Oovie is $3:50 a night and has all kinds of freebies and discounts on top of that, and I can still barely be bothered to commit to turning up 2 days running to the supermarket.

        That would make $4 a good price for "just out of the theater" streaming, then I might watch more than 2 newest release movies a year. And yeah, I don't pirate them either.

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    Unless its in full HD, and downloadable to any device I own, I am not interested, I'd rather buy a BluRay then rip it if I want it on my NAS...

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  3. tmTM

    If they were able to stream moveis currently available at the cinema then it's a great idea.

    I'm sick of the rubbish (Cinema Experiance) excuse the industry bleats at the public as justification for not rolling out a streaming service.

    The 'Cinema Expericance' shouldn't involve emptying your wallet for a couple of tickets, and then emptying it again for a few snacks.

    Last time I went to the cinema I took one look at the prices for everything, and realised we could go out for a nice meal for the same money - so we did.

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    1. tkioz
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      Re: Cinema Experience

      The "Cinema Experience"... you mean uncomfortable chairs, sticky floors, annoying and obnoxious people all around you, expensive yet strangely horrible snacks, and the inability to go take a leak without missing something (seriously what happened to intermission? even 3 hour movies don't have them anymore...).

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