PictureBox is an video on demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 movie service offering a dynamic selection of movies for a monthly subscription. It is available at home through several TV broadcast platform partners or via the internet using the PictureBox Player. The service is currently available in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Though PictureBox is owned and operated by NBCUniversal, the movies they offer are from a variety of the major movie studios.

Business model

Their subscription model sees the movies that have been on PictureBox for the longest time taken off the service and replaced with a selection of different on-demand movies. Users do not pay per movie; for a monthly subscription they have free access to movies in the database.

PictureBox brand identity

The PictureBox self-styles its ethos as being "all about value and convenience".

PictureBox have company mascots in the form of a box-shaped man and his dog, which often appear on the PictureBox website and on the supporting marketing materials.

PictureBox Player

PictureBox Player is an online movie-streaming service that was launched on 8 March 2011 in the UK and Ireland. It follows the same subscription model, but allows movies to be streamed to a computer, mobile device or telvision. The PictureBox Player is also available as a free app for Apple's iOS

IOS

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 devices and on Samsung

Samsung Electronics

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 Smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Further global expansion of the PictureBox Player is planned, as well as the addition of more connected devices.

Poland

In Poland, the service is available through a couple of TV providers, specifically n

N (Poland)

n is a Polish DTH platform. It was launched on October 12, 2006 and is owned by ITI Neovision. On June 30, 2011 the company had reached 826,000 subscribers.- Channels :There are currently:* 94 encrypted channels...

 and Multimedia. On both services the subscribers have a selection of 16 on-demand movies at any one time, with four titles being swapped out each Sunday.

Singapore

In Singapore, the service is available through Mio TV

Mio TV

mio TV is a 24-hours pay-TV service, introduced by SingTel. It is transmitted through the company's SingNet broadband network via an IPTV service and uses Microsoft Mediaroom as its end to end software platform. It is a service that will allow multimedia content - including broadcast channels and...

. Subscribers have a selection of 28 on-demand movies at any one time, with seven titles being swapped out each Friday.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the service is available through a number of TV providers, specifically BT Vision

BT Vision

BT Vision is a hybrid IPTV-digital terrestrial television service provided by BT Group in the United Kingdom which was launched in December 2006...

, Freesat

Freesat

Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...

, Top Up TV

Top Up TV

Top Up TV is a pay television service in the UK launched in March 2004, operating on the digital terrestrial platform. The aim of the service is to "Top Up" Freeview customers by providing additional channels and services....

 and Virgin Media

Virgin Media

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, and formerly through TalkTalk TV. It is also available through the PictureBox Player.

On BT Vision, Freesat (through BoxOffice365) and Virgin Media subscribers have a selection of 28 on-demand movies at any one time, with seven titles being swapped out each Friday. This is also true of the PictureBox Player. On Top Up TV, the operation is slightly different; they have 7 movies available at any one time, with a different title being swapped out every single day.

On Virgin Media the majority of the PictureBox movies are broadcast in high definition.