Filmklik was a VOD service offering

online streaming Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...

to customers in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

. Established in 2007 and headquartered in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, the service offered movies from a large online catalogue always available on its platform. All the film content of the site was under

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protection. In 2008, the distributor A Company acquired a stake in the company and developed plans to roll out the service outside Hungary. On its turn, the A Company including Filmklik was acquired by

Alexander Rodnyansky Alexander Yefymovych Rodnyansky ( uk, Олекса́ндр Юхи́мович Родня́нський, Oleksandr Yukhymovych Rodnianskyi; born July 2, 1961) is a Ukrainian film director, film producer, television executive and businessman. As a me ...

Films

Filmklik offered movies, which can either be downloaded to be burned on

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and/or streamed instantly for 48 hours. Filmklik's library includes independent, international and studio films.

References

Variety: “Germany, Hungary deal for VOD”Europa Distribution: "The new challenge of VOD"

External links

Filmklik home page
Video on demand services Internet properties established in 2007 Hungarian companies established in 2007 {{internet-bcast-stub