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.
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Yes, Wached Khosla Ka Ghosla.
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Hi,
It's funny. Reliance always invests $100 million over 5 years in its ventures. They did the same with Zapak.
LOL. That was very funny, Mohit :-) And next year, they expect 65% of their revenues to come from online. Even funnier.
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The space of DVD rentals/tickets seems to be next destination everyone wants to capture. There is 70mm, a TV18 venture and also Planet M which intends to foray into this space.
70mm is now a step ahead; but Reliance is not an late entrant since this vertical has not really picked up till now.. but it had miles to go. The product offering (though in alpha mode) is not convincing, they have all the money thats needed, but not the team.
With intial hype gone.. Zapak isnt doing so well in acquiring/ retaining users for gaming; Mail was a disaster; Big Adda is as mysterious as its radio campaigns… All they need is to learn from their experience and put it all in place for BigFlicks.
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