#hotstar stories

FactorDaily Year in Review: 2018 Following the money in tech and life Team FactorDaily | 19 December 2018 The coming …

One would think that with a lead like that, rights to the world’s biggest live sporting event Indian Premier League (IPL), and favourable climes, Hotstar is safely on its way to owning the market. But that’s not a given.

The Indian state has an expansive legal toolkit when it comes to censorship of content, encompassing cinema, broadcast media, books, …

Times Internet has big plans for MX Player. A beta version of the MX Player app, which was released on the Play store earlier and was picked up by the press on Saturday, is just the start.

Two years. 50 million users. 1,100 cities. Gigabits per second speeds. Pricing starting at Rs 200 a month. These will …

Netflix, the American internet video company, is said to be in talks with Reliance Jio for a  partnership in India …

The India online video market, dominated by YouTube, has streaming content providers all charged up with the Google company’s focus on the “right things”.

Filmmaker Vikram Malhotra had been toying with the idea of a script suitable for an online-only movie when he got …

Every other night, my wife and I put our kids to bed and settle down on the couch to watch …

Apple and Goole decided to follow a path of legal conservatism and censored film and TV content in India even though they weren’t required to.

Deadpool was cropped on Hotstar from its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 to 16:9. That’s a 25% loss of image.

With the launch of Amazon Prime Video today, Indian viewers truly have a problem of plenty (though not as acute …