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1. jpmaya Le 16/12/2009 à 13:47
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   Auj. à 13:23 Netgem Spins Out VideoFutur Entertainment Group By: The Online Reporter Publish Date: December 11, 2009 Complete articles are posted three weeks after they have been sent to subscribers. To request a copy of the current edition, e-mail paperboy@riderresearch.com . Fresh from landing a major deal with Telstra for its Internet-capable T-Box set-top box (STB), the France-based Netgem Group is splitting into two companies: one with technology and the other distributing video content via stores, kiosks, the Net and on-demand. The consumer-focused audio/visual publishing and distribution operations will be called VideoFutur Entertainment Group (VideoFutur). Its goal is "to become a leading brand in new forms of distribution for pay video content, by offering consumers a multi-channel and multi-format offering, via its Internet portal, its network of specialized stores, its automated service points and via partnerships with operators and equipment manufacturers." VideoFutur is like a Blockbuster but with Netflix’s low-operating costs, according to Netgem president and founder Joseph Haddad. He built the operation by acquiring a chain of franchised retail stores called VideoFutur, which rented and sold DVDs a la Blockbuster. To that, he added via acquisition an online and on-demand service that’s the largest independent service in France. He bought a company that had a string of DVD rental kiosks a la Redbox. The company is changing the names of its acquisitions to VideoFutur. VideoFutur is a quadruple threat in video distribution: retail sales and rental through franchised retailers, online, on-demand and kiosks — a strength that no US company has. Haddad said he has the best content that Hollywood offers plus video entertainment from French producers. VideoFutur currently operates only in France, but Haddad has considered expanding to contiguous countries like Germany. He said the company could also distribute on-demand and online content via the telcos that that Netgem deals with. The remaining company will be called Netgem Technologies and will handle sales of IPTV technology to those telcos that offer pay-TV services, which are most of them. It has the middleware technology called Netgem TV, which is used in IPTV systems such as the T-Box that Telstra is offering. (Telstra owns the T-Box brand.) Netgem can get the boxes made in Asia for the telcos. Alternatively, STB makers such as Pace or Thomson could license the technology from Netgem to embed in the boxes they make. Netgem Technologies’ focus is on Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Shares in VideoFutur will be listed on Euronext’s NYSE Alternext.
2. Oncle_Picsou Le 16/12/2009 à 18:35
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   Que ce soit pour video futur ou netgem, l'avanture ne fait que commencer. amha on a encore de belles années de PV et de dividendes devant nous.

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