Updated: Reliance To Invest $100 Million Over Five Years In BigFlicks

Some addons to the story we’d done earlier on BigFlicks. As per the official announcement, BigFlicks isn’t just online play. As we had first reported in March, the company will also be launching an offline model with DVD rental for the Indian market. BigFlicks.com will serve as an online store, and there will be retail stores as well. For the online service, BigFlicks also intends to offer a movie subscription service. The movies can be downloaded on to three devices, and they intend to allow watching movies on pocket sized players too. The DRM is from Entriq, while Limelight is providing the content delivery network.

I tried watching Khosla Ka Ghosla, but it didn’t load. Anyone else able to watch movies at BigFlicks?

For more on BigFlicks, check out our earlier stores on their online and offline plans.

Update: Indiantelevision has more details: Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment says that they’ll invest $100 million in five years in BigFlicks. COO Kamal Gianchandani says that a third of the content in retail stores will be international; first stores will be launched in Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Pune next month. They’re targeting 100 stores in 10 cities for this financial year. 500 in 50 cities in three years. However, by next year, they expect the 65 percent of the revenue to come from online.

Disclaimer: Both Entriq and Limelight have been associated with our publications as sponsors.

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