DirecTV to offer downloads

Service set to launch later this year with 2,000 available movies

By Jennifer Netherby -- Video Business, 2/28/2006

FEB. 28 | DirecTV will begin offering a broadband-based video-on-demand service later this year that will allow users to download movies to their DirecTV DVR, the company said last week.

DirecTV said 2,000 movies will be available initially through DirecTV Broadband Video.

DirecTV subscribers will be able to order movies either through their TV or a Web site but will have to wait until the films download to watch them.

Movies will then be downloaded to their DVR for viewing later in the day or the next day.

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