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Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand... as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China's "first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform," to launch in the summer with movies including the last Harry Potter installment, with WB president for international video and digital distribution Jim Wuthrich talking up the "millions of potential customers" that will be able to legally view movies at home as a result. But it turns out that there's more going on here than just the headlines.
The Hollywood Reporter points out that it's unclear whether this deal is even legal under current Chinese law, suggesting that the deal is much more complicated than initially announced:
"Sources claiming to be familiar with the Warner-YOD-CCTV-6 deal's structure say that YOD's contract is actually with a private Beijing-based VOD solutions company called Zhonghai, which, in turn, has a non-exclusive contract to source video content for the VOD unit of CCTV-6's pay TV platform...."
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/06/15/warner-announces-chinas-first-video-on-de...
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