Foxtel to launch film streaming service Presto

Tim Burrowes

September 23, 2013 12:01

Foxtel has launched an online film streaming subscription service in a new challenge for Quickflix.

Priced at $24.99 per month with no lock in contract, Presto features whatever films the seven Foxtel Movies channels have licenced at the time.

The offering will launch later this year.

According to today’s announcement: “Presto features content in license to the Foxtel Movies channels including access to the biggest box office releases of 2012 at launch along with on demand access to the Foxtel Movies vault of recent and older favourite movies.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Elbogrease 23 Sep 13

Foxtel….lolz.
Pay for Tv? Not effing likely.

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Jim 27 Sep 13

Have access to unlimited Internet. Most stuff is already streaming FOR FREE.
What’s not can pick up for cheap at the vid store. What I can’t get a mate can download for FREE. In closing no chance of getting a dime out of gen Y because we do all this stuff and don’t have to pay only bill we pay in Internet but you fucked that for us didn’t you Rupert conning the Australian people to voting Liberal so you could have your business model. Well guess what it’s only a matter of time til the older generation gets taught by the younger generation and then you won’t be needed at all.

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Shaneoo 12 Oct 13

SO compared to NetFlix in the USA, we would get half the content for almost double the price…can see why Rupert fought so hard against the NBN…yeah I will stick to free streaming

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