Quickflix
Encyclopedia
Quickflix is a service offering online DVD
and Blu-ray
disc
rental-by-mail in Australia
, as well as instant streaming.
Established in 2003 and headquartered in Sydney, NSW, it has amassed a collection of more than 50,000 titles and over 80,000 subscribers.
, Sydney
, Melbourne
, Brisbane
, Adelaide
and Hobart
. The individual postage-paid envelopes arrive within one day to most of Australia. The subscriber can keep the rented movie as long as desired, without any formal due dates and without accruing any late fees. However, there is a limit on the number of movies (determined by subscription level) that each subscriber can have on loan simultaneously. To receive a new movie, the subscriber must mail a previous one back in the reply-paid envelope provided. Upon receipt of the disc, Quickflix ships the next available disc in the subscriber's Queue (subscribers can pre-notify the return of a disc online, thereby receiving the disc sooner).
Movie Discovery to develop a semantic power search engine.
for download. In July 2011, Quickflix announced that they would launch a subscription service to Sony's internet-connected devices, allowing Australians to stream movies and TV shows. On the 21st October Quickflix announced an agreement with Sony Playstation 3 to offer their streaming subscription service to all PS3 owners.. 27th October 2011, Quickflix announced the launch of their streaming service to all connect Sony BRAVIA TV's, Blu-ray Players and Home theatre systems. The streaming service offered by Quickflix became available on PC
's and Macintosh
computers on the 16th of November 2011, and is set to be followed by PS3 consoles later in the year.
. In July 2011, competitor Bigpond Movies revealed that they would no longer continue their DVD-by-post service, selling their library of 50,000 titles to Quickflix.
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and Blu-ray
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
disc
Optical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on a special material on one of its flat surfaces...
rental-by-mail in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, as well as instant streaming.
Established in 2003 and headquartered in Sydney, NSW, it has amassed a collection of more than 50,000 titles and over 80,000 subscribers.
Disc rental
The company provides a monthly flat-fee service for the rental of DVD and Blu-ray titles. A subscriber creates an ordered list, referred to as their Quickflix Queue, of movies to rent. The movies are delivered individually via Australia Post. Discs are sourced, packed and shipped from fulfillment centers located in PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
and Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
. The individual postage-paid envelopes arrive within one day to most of Australia. The subscriber can keep the rented movie as long as desired, without any formal due dates and without accruing any late fees. However, there is a limit on the number of movies (determined by subscription level) that each subscriber can have on loan simultaneously. To receive a new movie, the subscriber must mail a previous one back in the reply-paid envelope provided. Upon receipt of the disc, Quickflix ships the next available disc in the subscriber's Queue (subscribers can pre-notify the return of a disc online, thereby receiving the disc sooner).
Search engine
Quickflix has developed a discovery engine in-house. However, in 2009 Quickflix teamed up with JinniJinni (search engine)
Jinni is a search engine and recommendation engine for movies, TV shows and short films. The service is powered by the Movie Genome, an approach to indexing titles based on attributes like mood, tone, plot, and structure.-Description:...
Movie Discovery to develop a semantic power search engine.
Internet streaming
On 2nd June 2009, Quickflix offered members the opportunity to rent or buy a digital copy of The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book, Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz...
for download. In July 2011, Quickflix announced that they would launch a subscription service to Sony's internet-connected devices, allowing Australians to stream movies and TV shows. On the 21st October Quickflix announced an agreement with Sony Playstation 3 to offer their streaming subscription service to all PS3 owners.. 27th October 2011, Quickflix announced the launch of their streaming service to all connect Sony BRAVIA TV's, Blu-ray Players and Home theatre systems. The streaming service offered by Quickflix became available on PC
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
's and Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
computers on the 16th of November 2011, and is set to be followed by PS3 consoles later in the year.
History
Quickflix was launched in 2004 in Perth, Western Australia by Stephen Langsford and Simon Hodge. Langsford had previously founded internet and web development group Method + Madness, which was acquired by Sausage Software. He also founded consulting, information technology and venturing group Change Corporation in 2002, which was similarly acquired by CSG Limited in 2007. Quickflix became publicly listed June 2005. In December 2005, Quickflix acquired rival company HomeScreen; a move that doubled the Quickflix customer base. In April 2011, Quickflix announced the dispatch of their 10 millionth DVD, Shrek Forever AfterShrek Forever After
Shrek Forever After, taglined as The Final Chapter, is a 2010 animated fantasy-comedy film, and the fourth and final installment in the Shrek film series, produced by DreamWorks Animation. The film was released by Paramount Pictures in cinemas on May 20, 2010 in Russia, and on May 21 in the United...
. In July 2011, competitor Bigpond Movies revealed that they would no longer continue their DVD-by-post service, selling their library of 50,000 titles to Quickflix.
See also
- NetflixNetflixNetflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...
, a similar online DVD rental company, based in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. - LOVEFiLMLoveFilmLoveFilm is a UK-based provider of home video and video game rental through DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia...
, a similar online DVD rental company, based in the United KingdomUnited KingdomThe 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...
.
External links
- Quickflix.com.au,
- blog.quickflix.com.au,
- Stephen Langford’s ‘view’ of Quickflix,
- Off-script? How Quickflix took on the titans,
- Quickflix subscribers pass 80,000,
- Quickflix ready to ride wave of online movies
- Quickflix launches movie download service
- Quickflix buys Telstra BigPond assets
- Quickflix aims to dominate DVD rentals
- Quickflix buys Bigpond DVD delivery business
- Quickflix new CEO, Chris Taylor
- Former Telstra media director takes the helm at Quickflix
- Quickflix comes to Sony gear and PCs