LOVEFiLM, the UK’s leading online movie and game rental firm, today announced news of their ipad application. Since its foundation in 2002 LOVEFiLM has gone from strength to strength, they have gone from offering purely a delivery service onto a download service and now they offer a great online streaming service. LOVEFiLM are always pushing their innovations and always seem to be front of the pack when it comes to online streaming, the ipad application is aiming to take that one step further. The ipad news is fantastic news for those tech lovers who can’t go anywhere without their ipad, the next step will hopefully be a download service so people can watch their movies on the move but one step at a time!
Here is the press release taken from http://www.lovefilm.com/:
LOVEFiLM Player Debuts on the iPad
– STREAMED MOVIES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS –London, UK – 29 September 2011: LOVEFiLM is proud to announce the LOVEFiLM App is now available on the iPad. The App allows users to instantly watch, pause, fast-forward and rewind their movie stream, view trailers and add to their DVD rental list on the go.Subscribers can instantly watch titles from leading and independent studios such as Colin Firth’s A Single Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the critically acclaimed drama The Wrestler, and access exclusive movies such as the global phenomenon The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and RED starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren.“LOVEFiLM’s debut on iPad is a huge win for our customers as the latest platform to support the service. This is a huge leap in movie watching for the 21st Century – making LOVEFiLM more portable than ever before”, said Simon Calver, CEO of LOVEFiLM. “LOVEFiLM on iPad is the latest step in giving film fans total control over their viewing schedule and our commitment to expanding the ways in which members can stream movies and TV series on a range of devices.”Subscribers can now easily access instant movies in and out of the home by linking their account with LOVEFiLM. Subscribers on packages of £5.99 or above can use the app at no extra cost by simply entering their login details. The LOVEFiLM Player for iPad is available for free from the App Store on iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore.
So there you have it the latest innovation in movie watching, let’s hope more big companies take a leaf out of LOVEFiLM’s book and embrace the latest technologies.