Deluxe Expands Multiscreen Video Catalog Service to Over-the-Top Providers

BURBANK, Calif., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --  Deluxe Digital Distribution today announced the availability of its video catalog service of popular titles for over-the-top (OTT) distribution.  Deluxe On Demand provides access to the catalog as a cloud-based standalone service and with titles UltraViolet-enabled. The service easily integrates with most user experiences so that consumers can access movies and other content wherever they choose, on whichever device they choose. Deluxe On Demand delivers time-to-market advantages to help customers launch new services in weeks rather than months, with greater cost-efficiencies as compared to other solutions that are available today.  

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"We developed Deluxe On Demand as a service-based approach to ensure that our customers with content rights have immediate access to an extensive library of pre-encoded and pre-packaged video assets to support next generation content delivery at the highest quality video outputs",  said Kevin Corbett,  President of Deluxe Digital Distribution. "With the inclusion of UltraViolet-enabled studio titles in our video catalog, we can help our clients offer the best of Hollywood on today's devices and others to come."

Deluxe On Demand makes available as a standalone service an extensive library of pre-encoded and pre-packaged video content of new releases, blockbuster titles, popular television series, favorite classics and more, available for streaming or download.  The service-based solution offers OTT providers the ability to quickly add new services and access and deliver an extensive and ever expanding video catalog to subscribers, without the significant upfront investment in time and resources to build their own network infrastructure and workflows.  The catalog supports the critical security and DRM encryption requirements and easily integrates with key components of the UltraViolet delivery platform including the Coordinator

Key benefits of the Deluxe On Demand service for OTT distribution: 

• Impressive catalog of popular video titles: The catalog provides access to popular movie and TV titles for multiscreen access; pre-encoded and pre-encrypted.
• Formatted for multiscreen viewing:  Video titles are immediately available encoded in over 50 formats for viewing on Consumer Electronic (CE) devices such as the PC/Mac, iPad, and Android, gaming consoles, and Smart TVs.  Deluxe invests in creating file formats for the most popular devices so that titles are ready when service providers want them.  
• Efficient standalone service simplifies multiscreen distribution: The service-based approach saves time, money, and reduces operational complexity to deliver titles whenever consumers choose, on whichever device they choose
• UltraViolet-Ready: Titles are UltraViolet-enabled to satisfy most user experiences and easily integrates with key components of the UltraViolet delivery platform including the Coordinator

Deluxe will be demonstrating the Deluxe On Demand solution at the upcoming 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 6-12, in booth SU5415.

About Deluxe Digital Distribution

Deluxe Digital Distribution is revolutionizing digital home entertainment with multiscreen ready, studio-quality video catalog services.  The cloud-based solution easily integrates with the existing supply chain, workflows, storefronts and apps to simplify the access and delivery of next generation content delivery.  Deluxe Digital Distribution is a business division of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., and leading provider of a broad range of services and technologies to the worldwide entertainment and media industry.  For more information on Deluxe Digital Distribution, please visit www.bydeluxe.com/d3.

SOURCE Deluxe Digital Distribution