Voddler launches offline mode - Watch online movies even without an Internet connection

Scandinavia’s leading video-on-demand service Voddler today launches the viewing feature “offline mode”. This makes Voddler the first VOD-service in the Nordics, and one of the first VOD-services in the world, to offer the opportunity to watch online film even when there is no web connection. Movies that customers want to see in offline mode are added to a playlist, so they can be played wherever the viewers are, including places with no or low Internet connectivity. When Voddler today launches its “offline mode”, it becomes one of the first legal VOD-services in the world to offer viewers the ability to watch web-based movies even when there is no web connectivity. - From today you don’t have to have a web connection when you’re watching your Voddler-film. You can now watch it on a train with a spotty Internet connectivity, in the backseat of a car, in your summer house far from the nearest web connection, or on a plane high above the clouds, says Anders Sjöman, VP Communication at Voddler. Customers decide when they are online which movies they want access to offline. They rent the movies and download them to their computer. The viewing period of 48 hours does not begin until they start playing the movie, and they have fourteen days after download to start their viewing period. Watching Voddler-movies in offline mode requires Voddler’s specific offline player, which is a one-time free download the first time a customer prepares their offline playlist. For more details about Voddler’s offline mode, visit http://voddlertalk.voddler.com/2011/offlinemode/ or try it out directly at Voddler: here’s a link to all the titles that so far are available for offline viewing: http://www.voddler.com/en/movie/browse/premium/views/all/offline. At launch, offline mode applies to Voddler’s rental movies. Voddler is now looking at expanding it to include Voddler’s ad-funded PLAY-titles, where watching PLAY-movies offline might be a benefit linked to Voddler Plus, Voddler’s membership program.  Voddler’s offline mode currently applies to computers and Voddler is now laying a road map for development of offline mode also for mobile platforms, such as smart phones and tablets.