On-line ticketing platform Ebook My Present has entered the streaming platform race with its new transactional video-on-demand service (TVOD) referred to as BookMyShow Stream that provides customers the choice to hire a film for a finite period or purchase it for limitless entry.
With over 600 film titles and over 72,000 hours of content material, BookMyShow Stream will characteristic movies and content material from around the globe together with India, the platform stated.
The platform claims that it gained’t hamper the theatrical enterprise as they may put up content material on the streaming platform solely after a movie’s theatrical run. Additionally, the assorted classes on the location are – Premieres, Exclusives, World Cinema, Missed in Theatres, Competition Favourites, and devoted Bundles. The worth of movies ranges from Rs 40 to Rs 700.
With over 22,000 hours of content material being “Unique” to the platform at launch, BookMyShow Stream will characteristic a number of marquee Premieres each Friday, it added.
Moreover these, movies like “Alone”, “Sure God Sure”, “The Peanut Butter Falcon”, “The Responsible”, “Les Miserables”, “Unhinged” and the acclaimed Russian Sci-fi thriller “Coma”, from premium impartial studios will premiere solely on the platform.
BookMyShow Stream shall be one of many first Indian streaming platforms to host acquired content material from impartial movie distributors like PictureWorks, Superfine Movies, Influence Movies, Kahwa Leisure, and VR movies.
“BookMyShow Stream` is a pure extension of our cinemas enterprise and respects the present theatrical home windows for content material. It empowers customers to pay just for the content material that they watch — a prevalent pattern in different international cinema markets, as but untapped at scale in India,” Ashish Saksena, Chief Working Officer — Cinemas, BookMyShow, stated in an announcement.
It will likely be out there for viewing on BookMyShow`s cell app and web site as additionally Apple TV, Android TV, Firestick, Chromecast, and desktop browsers, the corporate stated, including that the platform will permit customers to expertise options similar to downloads, offline viewing, and casting.
