HomeChoice Boosts Replay To Encompass Digital Channels
Video Networks’ on-demand TV provider, HomeChoice, has announced a large-scale extension of its replay service, allowing customers to access popular programming from the BBC, Channel 4 and Chelsea TV, for up to seven days after it has been broadcast.
A total of four new BBC channels will now be added to the line-up, and the number of hours available will increase dramatically. Video Networks claims the extended service will offer the most extensive on-demand replay service in the UK, at no additional cost to its customers.
Subscribers to the London-based IPTV provider are currently able to access replay programming from BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 and Chelsea TV. From today that portfolio of channels will extend to include content from BBC3, BBC4, Cbeebies and CBBC boosting HomeChoice’s replay content to a total of approximately 100 hours each week. Customers are able to select a programme they missed earlier in the week and treat it as they would a DVD, with pause, rewind and fast forward controls.
Commenting on the expansion, Roger Lynch, chairman and CEO of Video Networks Ltd said: “Video Networks has been consistently ahead of the game in terms of launching pioneering on-demand services. Our replay service is a fantastic innovation and lets our customers view, on-demand, popular broadcast programmes when they want. They can even use it to view, from the beginning, a programme that hasn’t finished its live broadcast. These enhancements allow us to continue to develop the HomeChoice service for our customers and demonstrate how Video Networks still offers the most advanced mass market on-demand service in the UK today.”
Amongst the most popular programming currently available on the replay service is BBC News bulletins, Eastenders, Holby City, Top Gear and Location, Location, Location. Additional content now available to HomeChoice customers will now include The Weakest Link, Holiday, Horizon, Trouble At The Top, Little Britain, Little Angels, Chucklevision and Blue Peter.
Video Networks recently announced plans to double the number of households in London able to receive HomeChoice, capitalising on the momentum built up in recent months which has led to a 15,000 increase in its subscription base. HomeChoice currently accounts for a 20% share of new broadband subscribers in London against BT Yahoo!, AOL Broadband and Wanadoo. In addition customers are given on-demand TV and phone services. Announcing the expansion last month, Roger Lynch said: “Considering we only put our new marketing strategy in place in September, to get one in five new subscribers is pretty good, I think” (see HomeChoice To Double Coverage With Expansion).
HomeChoice: 0800 072 4454 www.homechoice.co.uk
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