Movie Downloads go Family Friendly as Internet TV Comes of Age

Contact: Susan Haddad, 248-601-5214, susanh@sbhcommunications.com; Tony Haddad, 248-601-5215, tonyh@sbhcommunications.com

ROCHESTER, Mich., Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Internet media solution that parents, corporate sponsors and the movie industry have been waiting for is finally here. Axiom.TV, Inc., a Rochester, MI based entertainment company will Beta launch the first comprehensive technology to make Internet TV user-friendly, legal and safe for families. To celebrate its international Beta launch, Axiom.TV will give away one of the most beloved family movies of all time – "Benji" – to the first 33,000 families.

"It's an appropriate promotion, because 33 years ago 'Benji' was released in every drive-in theater and became the first big screen movie that the Internet generation can remember," explained Dan Cobb, president of Axiom.TV. "Now the 'Benji' generation is grown up, they want to enjoy these movies all over again, but with their kids."

Axiom.TV is currently in final negotiations with several of the major studios for additional movie content, soon to be released. While in negotiations, Axiom.TV will offer discounts on traditional DVD sales by mail. Axiom.TV has almost 1,000 of the most popular DVDs including "Cars," the "Chronicles of Narnia," and even all of those hard to find retro-family shows that we loved watching as kids including "Treasure Island", the original "Tarzan," "Flubber" and, of course, "Benji."

Axiom.TV offers a family-focused video library, screened by a panel of moms and faith-based movie review partners, so protective parents can shop without concern. In order to build awareness of its new movie downloading service, Axiom.TV, has reduced its traditional DVDs to be among the lowest prices on the Internet. Some of these DVDs are less than $6.50 plus shipping of only $1.73. During the Beta launch, Axiom.TV downloads will sell as low as $2.00 or even free.

The new service is powered by the VeriSign® Intelligent CDN, which leverages VeriSign's global infrastructure and patented peer-assisted Kontiki® Delivery Management System to offer faster downloads and a superior viewing experience for end users at a fraction of the cost of traditional content delivery networks.

Axiom.TV will be the world's first Internet TV channel created to combat the recent trends in online piracy and pornography. Axiom.TV has developed a website that makes the movie download process user-friendly for all ages and for all computer skill-levels, taking the next necessary step to blur the line between a user's PC, TV and DVD player.

About Axiom.TV
Axiom.TV will offer only family approved movies that are legally licensed for Internet distribution. Axiom.TV will deliver full screen DVD and HDTV quality video clips to any PC-based device through its web site at www.axiom.tv. Axiom will distribute its movies as pay-per-view downloads to its customers with discounts that will be subsidized by advertising sponsors. The consumer launch of the full download library is planned for early 2008.

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About The Movie Download Industry
Online purchases of media reached $19 billion in 2005 and will increase to $67 billion by 2010 according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2006-2010. Except for MP3 music, most of this content is still delivered by mail. Now, analysts suggest that Internet video services are on the brink of becoming the next Internet gold rush as most of the $67 billion is expected to transition to instant digital delivery instead of mail. These services will essentially replace the cable box and DVD player with a single PC-based entertainment system (Richard K. Miller & Associates 2006 Market Research Handbook).

According to InStat/MDR, the annual value of consumer video delivered over Internet Protocol networks will grow to $4.6 billion by 2008, an increase from only $1.378 billion in 2005 (Research and Markets). Currently, the majority of Internet video is pirated movies consisting of adult content and pornography (Richard K. Miller & Associates 2006 Market Research Handbook). Unfortunately, the download industry is on hold for legal and family-safe content. The industry hang up comes from the studios. Currently, the studios are renegotiating their contracts with producers to allow digital distribution online. Until they get through this process, the legal and legitimate downloaders like Axiom will be faced with limited selections of downloadable content (Acquisition Development, AxiomTV, 2007).