MUMBAI: Flixster, which operates a movie community service, has announced its popular movie application will be available this year on Panasonic‘s line of Viera Connect devices including HDTVs and Blu–ray players. By launching this new Flixster app, consumers will be able to watch and enjoy their UltraViolet movies and TV shows.
Flixster is a movie discovery application on mobile platforms with over 50 million downloads to date, including Android, Blackberry and iPad, and ranks among the most downloaded of iPhone apps of all time.
Flixster provides access to UltraViolet, a new industry standard that gives consumers flexibility with how and where they watch the movies and TV shows they purchase. UltraViolet also allows consumers to share their entire UltraViolet digital library with other members on their account, and they can even watch the same title simultaneously from different locations.
Flixster president Steve Polsky said, "Bringing UltraViolet to the living room will make it easy for consumers to enjoy their UltraViolet–enabled movies and TV shows. One of the great benefits of UltraViolet is the ability to watch your content whenever and wherever you want. If you‘re at a friend‘s house with a VIERA device, you can easily access your collection by simply logging into Flixster."
Viera Connect is Panasonic‘s Smart TV platform which enables owners of Viera Connect–enabled HDTVs, Blu–ray Disc Players and Home Theater Systems access to a wide range of Internet–based video–on–demand content and applications covering everything from news and fitness, to social networking and online gaming.
Viera Connect requires no external box or PC and is accessed via a single button on the television remote control.
Panasonic VP of interactive content and services Merwan Mereby said, "Panasonic‘s Viera Connect Smart TV platform‘s singular focus to deliver to our consumers an extremely robust and interactive connected TV experience that can be customized and enjoyed on their large–screen HDTVs. We are delighted to add Flixster to our Viera Connect Smart TV platform in 2012. Partnering with a Hollywood powerhouse like Warner Bros. Entertainment to integrate their highly popular Flixster movie application into our VIERA Connect platform is another great step in our efforts to continuously drive the connected TV experience to a whole new level for consumers."
