French pay-TV company Canal Plus Groupe, which is controlled by Vivendi Universal, plans to give subscribers to Vivendi’s SFR cellphone service access to about 20 TV channels over their phones. It will mark the first time a broadcaster has migrated a selection of its own channels onto a mobile platform. Synergy, as they say…
For now, the service will be launched on 3G, but by the end of the year, Vivendi hopes to offer the service in DVB-H, or Digital Video Broadcast Handheld, for a broad range of portable devices.
Canal Plus will offer channels with news, sports updates, cartoons and documentaries. But there will not be live sports or recently released Hollywood films that are available to viewers who subscribe to Canal Plus services via cable or satellite.
The new “on-the-go service” costs an extra รข
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