Previous info indicated the service would focus more heavily on movies than the back catalog of TV shows that is a part of Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Bloomberg reports Redbox will break with their models by paying its content providers per subscriber cable TV-style, instead of a flat rate decided up front.

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Video Networks will face competition for every subscriber from cable, which should, in due course, be able to offer a similar service.

ECONOMIST: Video-on-demand

Huang writes that subscriber growth with cable and satellite services is a key revenue and adjusted EBITDA driver for TiVo.

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