Movielink, Charter Sign Online Film Pact

Online movie download service Movielink has signed its first cable MSO deal, tying up with No. 4 U.S. cable TV provider Charter Communications to offer a customized movie service to Charter’s high-speed Internet subscribers.

Reuters characterizes this as a sign of growing interest in the fledgling market for legal movie downloads. I am not so sure it is as reductive as that…if you ask most of the people in the online movie sector and studios, it is a waiting game, both on the supply and demand side…especially for these movie services, where they wait out as studios sort out the legal restrictions…

Anyway, industry sources have reported as many as 75,000 rentals a month at Movielink, which is up more than five-fold from the same time last year.

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