Showtime Anytime app brings select movies, TV to iPad
updated 04:10 pm EST, Tue January 10, 2012
Initially limited to U-verse, FiOS subscribers
Cable channel Showtime has launched a new iPad app, Showtime Anytime. The app provides on-demand access to a selection of movies and TV shows. Showtime in fact promises access to all of its original series, such as Dexter, Homeland, Californication, and Showtime Championship Boxing. Movies include the likes of Inglourious Basterds and The King's Speech.
In all about 400 hours of video is currently available. Access, though, is so far restricted to AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS subscribers. Comcast support is due "soon," with more providers joining in the future, Showtime explains.
Comcast today launched a similarly-named offering called AnyPlay. That service involves live TV, but is even more limited in terms of who can access it and where. Comcast is, however, promising to expand it over time.
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Sep 2009
still requires Cable
and not just any Cable but with a company that approved this access.
Lets drop that game and go for direct subscription via the iPad app at say $10-15 a month with having to sign up for cable and pay $60-70 a month for basic and the privilege of paying the $15 a month for Showtime.
Same with HBO, Starz etc.
And then put the apps on the Apple TV.