New Netflix style video streaming service to launch in Thailand

[Jonathan Fairfield]

New Netflix style video streaming service to launch in Thailand

SingTel, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros to launch video streaming service in Thailand

SingTel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros have announced plans to launch a Netflix style video streaming service in Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia.

The companies, who have formed the joint venture startup HOOQ, have said they will offer more than 10,000 movies and TV shows ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and US TV series to local movies and programmes from India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

The service, which will enable users to stream and download content direct to their mobile device or desktop, will be available in the first quarter of 2015.

There are also plans to roll out the service in other countries in which SingTel has operations, most notably Singapore and Australia.

Read more: http://tech.thaivisa.com/singtel-sony-pictures-warner-bros-launch-video-streaming-service-thailand/3569/

[Bluespunk]

Hopefully unedited and with the option of removing subtitles.

[impulse]

Hopefully unedited and with the option of removing subtitles.

More likely dubbed in Thai, and you'll be begging for English subtitles... Just like in the hotels.

[BudRight]

It needs to have both language and subtitling options. Also, please Sony and Time Warner start providing Thai subtitles to Netflix.

[Camelot]

Singtel's involvement means that censorship could be an issue. Sony's involvement means that quality could also be an issue.

I'm pinning my hopes on Warner.

[Camelot]

Singtel's involvement means that censorship could be an issue. Sony's involvement means that quality could also be an issue.

I'm pinning my hopes on Warner.

[Camelot]

I wonder if Sony's recent demand that Netflix block users of VPNs, many of whom live in Asia, had anything to do with these expansion plans

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[tif]

Piratebay's back up tomorrow 4pm.

[Bluespunk]

Hopefully unedited and with the option of removing subtitles.

More likely dubbed in Thai, and you'll be begging for English subtitles... Just like in the hotels.

Nah, just won't bother.

Use laptop and expat TV as I do know in hotels.

[Xircal]

Probably puntuated with ads every ten minutes.

[AyG]

I just wonder how many people here have Internet connections with adequate bandwidth for video streaming. This is particularly going to be an issue if the services is hosted outside Thailand.

[Thai at Heart]

When this starts cutting into revenue for local domestic TV they will simply block it.

[impulse]

I just wonder how many people here have Internet connections with adequate bandwidth for video streaming. This is particularly going to be an issue if the services is hosted outside Thailand.

More importantly, I wonder how many of us will still have bandwidth once our neighbors can start streaming old episodes of Gomer Pyle USMC, dubbed in Thai.

Edited February 1, 2015 by impulse