Presto

The only way Presto will have a chance of success is to totally rehaul the interface. It is by far and away has the worst UX of any streaming platform I’ve used. Content wise it isn’t bad but man, so glitchy.

###August

Presto has provided the following information regarding its streaming service for August.

Cheer on the Aussies with a marathon of home-grown titles, starting with the comedy-drama 800 Words streaming from August 1. Starring Erik Thomson and Melina Vidler, the much loved series follows a wid¬owed father who moves with his family to a remote New Zealand seaside town after quitting his job as an 800 word columnist for a Sydney newspaper.

August 8 marks 28 years since Australian rock royalty INXS released their iconic track Never Tear Us Apart. On the anniversary, Presto will stream INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, an authentic behind-the-scenes look beyond the music starring Samantha Jade, Georgina Haig, Mallory Jansen, Hugh Sheridan and Luke Arnold. The miniseries tells INXS’ extraordinary and uncensored story, with complete access to their ar¬chive of music and photography. Continuing the celebration of Aussie icons, legendary Australian filmmak¬er Jocelyn Moorhouse returns to the director’s chair to deliver the ultimate revenge story in The Dress¬maker streaming August 27. Based on the bestselling novel by Rosalie Hamm, the AACTA Award-winning comedy-drama stars Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving and Judy Davis.

August also sees the arrival of complete series collections from HBO and Showtime. Dare to spend hours with everyone’s favourite serial killer, Dexter as every blood curdling episode streams on Presto from August 5. Continue the frightening frenzy with the complete first season of Fear The Walking Dead from August 24. A prequel to, and set in the same universe as, The Walking Dead, the gritty drama explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family who must embrace their darker histories. Take a break from the scream stream and walk on the lighter side with seasons 1-3 of HBO’s Emmy® Award-winning crack-up comedy Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus on August 3, and every episode of HBO’s The Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels, from August 19.

###Television

VEEP SEASONS 1-3, 3 AUGUST,
DEXTER EVERY EPISODE 5 AUGUST,
THE NEWSROOM EVERY EPISODE 19 AUGUST,
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 1, 24 AUGUST

• Winners and Losers, S4 — August 1
• 800 Words — August 1
• Veep, S1-S3 — August 3
• Mr Robot S2, ep 4 — August 4
• Aquarius S2, eps 9 & 10 (double ep) — August 5*
• Dexter S1-S8 — August 5
• Chuggington S2 — August 6
• Lah Lah’s Adventures S1 — August 6
• Cat in the Hat: Xmas Special — August 6
• INXS: Never Tear Us Apart — August 8
• Dark Net — August 10
• Mr Robot S2, ep 5 — August 11
• Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 — August 15
• Max & Ruby S1-S2 — August 15
• Mr Young S1 — August 15
• Scaredy Squirrel S1 — August 15
• Sidekick S1 — August 15
• Mr Robot S2, ep 6 — August 18
• The Newsroom, S1-S3 — August 19
• Fear The Walking Dead S1 — August 24
• Mr Robot S2, ep 7 — August 25

###Movies
MACBETH 1 AUGUST
THE 5TH WAVE 20 AUGUST
YOUTH 21 AUGUST
THE DRESSMAKER 27 AUGUST

• Back on Board: Greg Louganis (HBO) — 1 August
• Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (HBO) — 1 August
• Dead Poets Society — 1 August
• Good Morning Vietnam — 1 August
• The Legend of Johnny Lingo — 1 August
• Pushing Tin — 1 August
• Scoop — 1 August
• Femme Fatale — 1 August
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — 1 August
• Starsky & Hutch — 1 August
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — 1 August
• Meet Dave — 1 August
• Dragonball: Evolution — 1 August
• Airheads — 1 August
• Dirty Sanchez: The Movie — 1 August
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman — 1 August
• Goodbye Lover — 1 August
• Interiors — 1 August
• Match Point — 1 August
• The Sentinel — 1 August
• Crank: High Voltage — 1 August
• The Grudge — 1 August
• Stay — 1 August
• Bye Bye Love — 1 August
• Hannah and Her Sisters — 1 August
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo — 1 August
• It Could Happen To You — 1 August
• Made in America — 1 August
• Of Mice and Men — 1 August
• Dumb Criminals: The Movie — 1 August
• Copycat — 1 August
• Life Or Something Like It — 1 August
• Radio Days — 1 August
• V For Vendetta — 1 August
• Alice — 1 August
• Open Season: Scared Silly — 1 August
• Broadway Danny Rose — 1 August
• Grandma — 1 August
• Annie Hall — 1 August
• The Transporter: Refuelled — 1 August
• The End of the Tour — 1 August
• Macbeth — 1 August
• Bananas — 1 August
• Ratter — 1 August
• Manhattan — 1 August
• The Concierge — 3 August
• Peter Pan — 5 August
• Mr. Holmes — 6 August
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua — 6 August
• The Chamber — 7 August
• Rock the Kasbah — 7 August
• Happy Gilmore — 7 August
• The Terminal — 7 August
• The Hangover 3 — 8 August
• House Arrest — 8 August
• Young Ones — 10 August
• Apollo 13 — 12 August
• Return to Neverland — 12 August
• Bruno — 13 August
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year — 13 August
• Coraline — 13 August
• American Beauty — 14 August
• Slumdog Millionaire — 15 August
• Hannibal Rising — 16 August
• Tinker Bell — 19 August
• No Strings Attached — 19 August
• Shooter — 19 August
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of Black Pearl — 20 August
• War of The Worlds — 20 August
• The 5th Wave — 20 August
• Primal Fear — 21 August
• Youth — 21 August
• Bill — 24 August
• I Love You, Man — 25 August
• Paycheck — 26 August
• Just Like Heaven — 26 August
• Public Enemies — 27 August
• The Heartbreak Kid — 27 August
• Bedtime Stories — 27 August
• The Dressmaker — 27 August
• Disturbia — 28 August

###Collections

Binge Challenge: Go the Distance
• Dexter
• Wentworth
• The Walking Dead
• The Sopranos
• The Americans
• Sons Of Anarchy
• Scandal
• Rectify
• Mr Robot
• Mad Men
• Homeland
• Halt & Catch Fire
• Bates Motel
• Banshee
• Aquarius
• American Crime
• American Horror Story
• A Place To Call Home
• All Saints

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
• Rake
• The Castle
• All Saints
• A Place to Call Home
• Deadline Gallipoli
• Home and Away: An Eye For An Eye
• Jack Irish
• Redfern
• The Slap
• Lets Talk About
• Wanted
• Wentworth
• Winners & Losers
• Angry Boys
• Ja’mie: Private School Girl
• Packed to the Rafters
• Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures
• Summer Heights High
• The Moody’s
• The Hollowmen

Indie Underdogs
• Lost River
• Still Alice
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
• District 9
• Like Crazy
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Mr. Turner
• x+y
• Man Up
• Manny Lewis
• About Alex
• What If
• The Kids Are All Right
• Wish I Was Here
• Garden State
• Infinitely Polar Bear
• Rachel Getting Married
• Ricki and the Flash
• Sideways
• Amy
• Sleeping With Other People
• 99 Homes
• Seven Psychopaths
• Learning to Drive

The Films of Woody Allen
• Interiors
• Match Point
• Hannah And Her Sisters
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo
• Broadway Danny Rose
• Bananas
• Annie Hall
• Scoop
• Manhattan
• Magic in the Moonlight
• New York Stories
• Whatever Works

Never Throw In The Towel
• Everest
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Rocky
• Shaolin Soccer
• Cliffhanger
• Major League
• The World’s Fastest Indian
• Raging Bull
• The Rookie
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Invictus
• Invincible
• Revenge of the Nerds
• The Walk

Down To The Wire Nail Biters
• American Horror Story
• Banshee
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Strike Back
• Sons of Anarchy
• The Walking Dead
• True Detective
• Mr. Robot

All Over But The Crying
(Tearjerkers)
• Marley & Me
• Bambi
• Up
• Babe
• Brokeback Mountain
• Philadelphia
• Still Alice
• Milk
• Love Story
• Gran Torino
• Mystic River
• Changeling
• Ordinary People
• Dead Man Walking
• Armageddon
• 12 Years A Slave
• The Normal Heart

Seven West likely to withdraw from Presto joint venture

Seven West Media is expected to pull out of its digital streaming joint venture with Presto, which is under extreme pressure from US giant Netflix and the Nine ­Entertainment and Fairfax Media service, Stan.

Free-to-air television, print and digital group Seven and its JV partner Foxtel, owned by Telstra and The Australian’s publisher News Corporation, have agreed on a six-month budget rather than a full ­financial year agreement, as revealed by this newspaper.

The budget does not exceed a previously agreed funding commitment and sources said Seven was reluctant to invest any more money into the venture.

Seven pulling out of Presto could see the service become the first casualty of Australia’s digital streaming war. It is believed funds committed to the JV would last around three to six months if Presto aggressively invested in content and marketing to try to claw back the gap between itself and Stan and Netflix.

If the business was run conservatively the funds could be drawn out to a year, sources said.

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###September

Presto has provided the following information regarding its streaming service for September.

As the weather warms up, you’ll want to couple that extra spring in your step with a few roundhouse kicks when Rush Hour streams from September 9. Starring Justin Hires and Jon Foo, Rush Hour is a buddy-cop drama, a re-imagining of the blockbuster film, which follows a maverick LAPD and a by the book detective from Hong Kong who knock heads when they are forced to partner together.

In Britain’s largest lookalike agency, Lily Allen is asking for a pay rise, Ed Sheeran and Johnny Depp are competing for work at a kids party and Robert de Niro is having a hissy fit in the corner. Get to know the doppelgängers of some of your favourite celebrities in the mockumentary series Lookalikes, streaming September 11.

Buckle in for a spring-fresh binge-fest as every episode of Golden Globe Award winning dramas; The Good Wife, Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire stream from September 1. From September 2, every episode of the David Duchovny smash, Californication rounds out the list of complete collections comingto the service this month. September also sees the arrival of film favourites; Shine (September 1), Crimson Peak (September 3), and Suffragette (September 24).

Friend, we are about to terminate transmission. The season finale of Mr Robot Season 2.0 streams September 22. Don’t miss the epic end to this “hallucinogenic, engulfing masterpiece” (The West Australian), streaming express from the U.S. first on Presto.

###Television

SONS OF ANARCHY EVERY EPISODE - 1 SEPTEMBER
BOARDWALK EMPIRE EVERY EPISODE - 1 SEPTEMBER
RUSH HOUR - 9 SEPTEMBER
LOOKALIKES -11 SEPTEMBER

• Witness — September 1
• The Good Wife (every episode) — September 1
•Gasland Part II (HBO) – September 1
• Love Child – (HBO) – September 1
• Southern Rites – (HBO) – September 1
• The Newburgh Sting (HBO) – September 1
• Toe Tag Parole: To Live And Die On Yard A (HBO ) – September 1
• Californication (every episode) — September 2
• Aquarius S2 eps 10 & 11 — September 3
• Aquarius S2 eps 11&12 (S2 finale) — September 10
• Whitney Cummings: I’m Your Girlfriend — September 15
• Mr Robot Season 2.0 finale — September 22
• A Good Job: Stories Of The FDNY (HBO) – September 1

###Movies

SHINE - 1 SEPTEMBER
CRIMSON PEAK - 3 SEPTEMBER
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY:THE GHOST DIMENSION - 16 SEPTEMBER
SUFFRAGETTE - 20 SEPTEMBER

• House Of Wax – September 1
• Blow – September 1
• Dumb & Dumberer – September 1
• Get Carter – September 1
• In Bruges – September 1
• Queen of the Damned – September 1
• Tenacious D: In the Pick of Destiny – September 1
• Boundin’– September 1
• Dug’s Special Mission – September 1
• Jack-Jack Attack– September 1
• Big Trouble – September 1
• New In Town – September 1
• Twilight Zone: The Movie – September 1
• Showtime – September 1
• National Lampoon’s Movie Madness – September 1
• St. Elmo’s Fire – September 1
• Point Of No Return – September 1
• One Missed Call – September 1
• Supremacy – September 1
• Don’t Say A Word – September 1
• Black Knight – September 1
• Drive Me Crazy – September 1
• Code 46 – September 1
• Never Been Kissed – September 1
• The Piano – September 1
• Paranormal Activity – September 1
• Poseidon – September 1
• Drawing The Audience In – September 1
• The Imp, The Spirit, The Hero – September 1
• Sculpting The Movie – September 1
• Roadkill – September 1
• G.I. Jane – September 2
• The Hunchback Of Notre Dame – September 2
• The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2 – September 2
• Napoleon Dynamite – September 2
• Man Of Steel – September 3
• Flightplan – September 3
• The Flintstones – September 3
• The Soloist – September 3
• Race To Witch Mountain – September 3
• The Soloist – September 3
• Frequency – September 4
• Inglourious Basterds – September 4
• Your Friend The Rat – September 4
• A Walk In The Woods – September 5
• Head Of State – September 7
• Terminal Velocity – September 8
• Boogie Nights – September 8
• Sweet Home Alabama– September 9
• Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse – September 9
• Assault On Precinct 13 – September 10
• Bolt – September 10
• Irrational Man – September 10
• Deep Impact – September 11
• Funny People – September 11
• The Watcher – September 11
• 30 Days Of Night – September 15
• Ghostbusters – September 15
• Snatch – September 15
• Big Daddy – September 15
• Night At The Museum 2 – September 15
• My Girl – September 15
• My Girl 2 – September 15
• Single White Female – September 15
• 1408 – September 15
• Anaconda – September 15
• A Goofy Movie – September 16
• An Extremely Goofy Movie – September 16
• Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – September 16
• The Nutcracker – September 16
• Dragonfly – September 17
• Pacific Rim – September 17
• The Conjuring – September 17
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – September 18
• Project X – September 22
• Small Fry – September 25
• The Driftless Area – September 27
• Jem And The Holograms – September 30

###Collections

Celebrating the Cast & Crew of Shine
• Shine
• Shine Short Film
• The Boys Are Back
• He Died With A Felafel in his Hand
• Australia
• Lantana
• Finding Nemo
• The Dressmaker
• Sliding Doors
• Kill Me Three Times
• Oscar and Lucinda

Reliable TV Favourites
• Mad Men
• 30 Rock
• The Sopranos
• Dexter
• Nurse Jackie
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Love My Way
• Sex and the City
• Parks and Recreation
• The Office
• The X-Files

Girl Squads
• Suffragette
• Pitch Perfect 2
• Jem and the Holograms
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Spice World
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Coyote Ugly
• Sucker Punch
• Sex and the City
• Cheetah Girls
• Bend it Like Beckham
• Caramel
• Boys on the Side
• Hocus Pocus
• Heathers
• The Parent Trap

Game Changing Visionaries
• Suffragette
• Selma
• Milk
• Mississippi Burning
• Citizenfour
• Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
• Pride
• Friday
• The Normal Heart
• Banksy Does New York
• The Theory of Everything
• Frost/Nixon
• The Social Network
• Love & Mercy
• Mr. Turner

Ultimate Outlaws
• Sons of Anarchy
• Boardwalk Empire
• Into the Badlands
• Mr Robot
• The Red Road
• Banshee
• Hell on Wheels
• The Sopranos

Comedy Kweens
• Broad City
• Veep
• Inside Amy Schumer
• Girls
• Nurse Jackie
• 30 Rock
• Parks and Recreation
• Absolutely Fabulous
• The Mindy Project
• Tig Notaro, Boyish Girl Interrupted
• Sex and the City
• Glee

Big Stars on the Small Screen
• Boardwalk Empire
• Bates Motel
• Generation Kill
• Empire
• Sex and the City
• The X-Files
• 30 Rock
• Inside Amy Schumer
• The Office
• Workaholics

Boyz Rule
• Ben 10
• Arthur
• Bob the Builder
• Caillou
• Ninja Turtles
• The Wiggles
• Postman Pat
• Slugterra
• Transformers
• Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures

Documentaries to Discover
• Citizenfour
• Amy
• That Sugar Film
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Going Clear, Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Dior and I
• Blackfish
• Cocaine Cowboys
• Midnight Movies
• Banksy Does New York
• Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine
• Lemmy
• I’m Still Here

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###October

Presto has provided the following information regarding its streaming service for October.

Hair-raising streaming is in store this Halloween as Presto today announced its thrilling line-up for the month of October.

No-one should underestimate Australia’s most psychotic villain, “The Freak” when Bea and her cell-mates return to H Block for Wentworth Season 4 on October 5. The girls find that a new dynamic is in play when Bea’s Top Dog status is challenged and on the outside, Franky is trying hard to be a productive member of society. Settle in for an epidemic of apocalyptic proportions as Season 6 of The Walking Dead streams from October 12. The thirst for fear continues with every episode of HBO’s True Blood streaming from October 1 as well as the darkly comic thriller Hap and Leonard from October 10.

Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door also streams on Presto from October 10. The AACTA-Award winning, two part mini-series explores the rollercoaster story of the iconic Australian entertainer, Peter Allen, who went from being a childhood performer in country NSW to a Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter and the toast of Broadway, marrying into Hollywood royalty along the way.

From October 1, binge on silver screen screams; Saw (1-4), Alien (1-3) and The Last Witch Hunter, where it’s up to Vin Diesel to save humanity from the most horrifying witches in history. One, two, Freddy’s coming for you on October 28 with the entire collection of A Nightmare on Elm Street streaming just in time for Halloween.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg will have you swapping shrieks of terror for shrieks of laughter in the ultimate Dad vs. Step-Dad showdown, Daddy’s Home, streaming from October 2. More must watch films coming in October include Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette on October 2, All Roads Lead to Rome, starring Sarah Jessica Parker on October 7, Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara on October 18, and Risen, starring Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton on October 25.

###Television

• The Big Bang Theory S8 —1 October
• True Blood S1-S7 —1 October (HBO)
• Hung S1-3—1 October (HBO)
• Bessie—1 October (HBO film)
• Herblock: The Black & The White—1 October (HBO)
• Nightingale—1 October (HBO)
• Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words—1 October (HBO)
• Phil Spector—1 October (HBO)
• Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. (HBO) —1 October
• The University of Sing Sing—1 October (HBO)
• Wentworth S4 —5 October
• An Audience with the Cast of Wentworth—5 October
• Hap and Leonard S1—10 October
• Peter Allen: The Boy Next Door—10 October
• The Walking Dead S6—12 October

###Movies

• Alien—1 October
• Aliens—1 October
• Alien 3—1 October
• Alien Resurrection—1 October
• Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem—1 October
• America’s Sweethearts—1 October
• Animal Kingdom—1 October
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator—1 October
• Bedazzled—1 October
• Blitz—1 October
• The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas—1 October
• Brazil—1 October
• Desperado—1 October
• Evolution—1 October
• Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare—1 October
• Hear No Evil—1 October
• Herblock: The Black & The White—1 October
• House At The End Of The Street—1 October
• Howling, The —1 October
• The Hustler —1 October
• Jackie Brown—1 October
• Joe Somebody—1 October
• Kill Bill Vol. 1—1 October
• Kill Bill Vol. 2—1 October
• Knight’s Tale, A—1 October
• Let Me In—1 October
• Malcolm X—1 October
• The Man Who Knew Too Little—1 October
• The Manchurian Candidate—1 October
• Michael Collins—1 October
• Moonwalker—1 October
• The Negotiator—1 October
• Nightingale—1 October
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge—1 October
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors—1 October
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master—1 October
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child—1 October
• Nixon By Nixon: I His Own Words—1 October
• Nowhere To Run—1 October
• Nurse Betty—1 October
• Once—1 October
• Phil Spector—1 October
• Point Break—1 October
• Pulp Fiction—1 October
• Remembering The Artist Robert De Niro Sr—1 October
• Sandlot, The—1 October
• Saw—1 October
• Saw 2—1 October
• Saw 3—1 October
• Saw: The Final Chapter—1 October
• Snakes On A Plane—1 October
• Swamp Thing—1 October
• University Of Sing Sing, The—1 October
• Wes Craven’s New Nightmare—1 October
• Daddy’s Home —2 October
• Miss You Already —2 October
• Watchmen—2 October
• My Life In Ruins—3 October
• My Sister’s Keeper—3 October
• Maid In Manhattan—6 October
• All Roads Lead to Rome —7 October
• Looking For Grace—8 October
• Something Borrowed—8 October
• A Simple Wish —9 October
• Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close—10 October
• Blade: Trinity—12 October
• White Noise—14 October
• Wild At Heart—15 October
• We’re The Millers—17 October
• Carol —18 October
• The Ant Bully—18 October
• Curious George—18 October
• Land Before Time Xiv: Journey Of The Brave—18 October
• The Mermaid —18 October
• (500) Days Of Summer—21 October
• Laws Of Attraction—22 October
• Narc—23 October
• Risen —25 October
• Eagle Eye—27 October
• Freddy Vs Jason—28 October
• Youth—28 October

###Collections

One, Two, Freddy’s Coming for You
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1994)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Reveng
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
• Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
• Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
• Freddy VS Jason
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

HallowScream!
• Hotel Transylvania 2
• Corpse Bride
• Coraline
• Casper

Halloween Hauntings
• The Conjuring
• Poltergeist
• Insidious
• The Haunting in Connecticut
• The Amityville Horror
• The Others
• The Frighteners

Rocktober
• The Rocker
• Rock of Ages
• Rock Star
• The Doors

Bloody Good Dramas
• The Walking Dead
• Bastard Executioner
• The Pacific
• Banshee
• Sons of Anarchy
• Into the Badlands
• Bitten
• True Blood

Dark & Deadly
• True Blood
• The Walking Dead
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Fear the Walking Dead
• Bitten
• American Horror Story
• Bates Motel
• Dexter
• Banshee

Australian Stories
• Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
• 800 Words
• INXS: Never Tear Us Apart
• Packed to the Rafters
• All Saints
• Winners & Losers
• Let’s Talk About
• Always Greener

Nerd Alert
• The Big Bang Theory
• Silicon Valley
• Mr. Robot
• Dark Net
• Adventure Time
• The X-Files
• Regular Show
• The Inbetweeners

School Holiday Essentials
• Ghostbusters
• Minions
• Hotel Transylvania 2
• Babe
• Coraline
• Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
• Ice Age
• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• Night at the Museum 2
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Shaun The Sheep
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

STATEMENT REGARDING PRESTO TV

Foxtel and Seven West Media today announced that Foxtel will acquire Seven West Media’s interest in the Presto TV joint venture.

Tim Worner, CEO and Managing Director, Seven West Media, said: “We look forward to continuing to work closely with Foxtel, in particular in the creation of new programming content.”

Peter Tonagh, Foxtel CEO, said “It has been great working with the team at Seven on Presto and we look forward to future collaborations. We are delighted to be ableto offer Presto subscribers access to the new look Foxtel Play, which we know will be highly attractive to them."

From December 2016, Presto customers will be able to access the new Foxtel Play product.

Presto will cease on 31 January 2017.

Presto and Foxtel Play subscribers will have exclusive Australian access to two new Home and Away specials to be released this summer. The production of these Home and Away specials underlines the ongoing partnership between Foxtel and Seven West Media on content production for new consumer services.

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Not surprising we’re seeing Presto out of the market soon with increased competition, especially from Stan who offered a superior offering from launch.

A rare defeat for Foxtel given its domination of pay TV market for nearly two decades.

I don’t think absorbing presto into the Foxtel brand is smart. A lot of people don’t like Foxtel and may find it confusing to differ the products.

Presto however is a poor service, I have a two month trial i am using exclusively for 30 Rock. It’s a truly poor service and it’s IOS app is riddled with bugs.

Good riddance

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I don’t think you’ll find this to be an absorbing. They are two different services and the new Foxtel Play is no different. News sources are reporting that Presto is going to be shut down with focus on the new Foxtel Play product instead.

Foxtel Play is still going to be an IPTV service whereas Presto is a SVOD service. The SVOD part of Foxtel Play is only Foxtel Anytime which will only show programs within the subscribed Foxtel Play Package.

Looks like you’re right, which is a shame. I thought the services were being merged which would’ve been a good idea imo.

Presto failures: Too late in getting HD, a HBO deal without GoT (probably out of their control) and a FOX deal without Simpsons. Deserved to fail.

Telstra reps still spruiking Presto at a pop up stall in a shopping centre I was walking through at lunch time today. I wish I’d stopped to pick up some of their promotional material as a memento of the short lived service.

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Should have said something to them… :wink:

Presto has been removed from the App Store

I AM surprised by this news, because Presto has a far superior library to Netflix which is stuck with providing third-rate no name movies nobody has heard of. I’m also surprised that Netlfix has far more subscribers than Presto.

Presto had a “far superior library” due to Foxtel’s agreements with the various movie studios. Meanwhile, Netflix has more subscribers due to the advantage they had of people being subscribers to the US service through VPN/DNS services for years before Presto & indeed Stan launched

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Netflix movies aren’t the main reason for subscribers, it’s their original and exclusive content.

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##foxtel invites Presto subscribers to join Foxtel Play

Presto customers can check out Foxtel Play for two weeks free, plus special migration offer

Foxtel today invited Presto subscribers to come and see what Foxtel Play has to offer with a two week free trial to Foxtel Play. The free trial is accompanied by three months of special pricing offered exclusively to Presto subscribers*.

Following the free trial, Presto subscribers will be able to subscribe to Foxtel Play’s Pop and Movies tiers for $15 per month for three months, discounted from its normal price of $35 per month, for a $60 saving over three months.

Foxtel’s move offers Presto subscribers a much more comprehensive selection of programming than their existing service. As Foxtel Play subscribers with the pop and movies tiers, they will have access to a vast collection of the most current movies available from all of the major Hollywood studios as well as a host of the most recent TV series, with many broadcast ‘Express from the US’; plus access to a constantly growing on demand library.

The Pop tier includes a raft of Foxtel’s most popular channels, with programs never before seen on Presto, including showcase, offering HBO’s critically acclaimed drama such as Game of Thrones (every episode), Westworld and Insecure, plus the newest series of Foxtel originals as they premiere like A Place to Call Home, Wentworth and more. The Pop tier also includes the Binge. channel featuring complete seasons of popular programs including True Blood, Bitten, and Beauty and the Beast; FX, with the latest seasons of The Walking Dead, The Exorcist and The Last Ship, plus programming from FOX8, SyFy, MTV, and the Comedy Channel.

Subscribers will also have access, on demand, to the upcoming special event, Home and Away: Revenge, with Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley reprising their roles as Heath and Bianca Braxton.

The movies tier features all of Foxtel’s movie channels airing the best in action, comedy, romance, family, thriller and world movies. Key highlights include Deadpool, Steve Jobs, Jurassic World, Spectre, Zoolander 2 and The Finest Hours; plus, Foxtel’s popular pop-up movies channels including the upcoming ‘12 Days of Christmas’ pop-up showcasing all-time holiday hits; and the ‘Best of 2016’ pop-up, slated for December and January.

The offer follows new pricing and packaging for Foxtel Play that kicked off earlier this month, and features five different entry level tiers to match viewers’ interests including Drama and Pop packs priced at $15 per month each or $25 for both, plus Lifestyle, Documentary and Kids packs for $10 each per month.

In addition, customers can take the Movies tier for an additional $20 per month; and the Sports tier for an extra $29 per month~. The Sports tier features the best in live sport from 12 dedicated sports channels featuring every game from the NRL, AFL, Super Rugby, A-League, NBL as well as every race, practice and qualifying session of Formula 1 and V8s.

Foxtel Play customers can enjoy their programming via eligible Samsung, Sony and LG Smart TVs, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 & 4, selected Samsung Blu-Ray and home theatre systems, PC and Mac computers and Telstra TV.

Foxtel Play customers also have access to all live and on demand content from the channels in their subscription on selected smart phones and tablets by downloading the Foxtel Go^ app at no extra cost.

Current Presto subscribers will receive a promo code from Foxtel that they can redeem for their special Foxtel Play pricing at www.foxtelplay.com.au/presto

*Offer currently not available for Presto through Telstra subscribers.

~$25 per month until 1 February 2017.

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