Infinity TV, commonly known as Infinity, was an

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published by R.T.I. and owned by

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. It was also available as an app for

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and for

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. In 2021 in

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into Infinity+.

History

Infinity, launched on December 11, 2013, allowed you to watch

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and

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via

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. Since July 2014, the

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has also been available via

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and is included in the packages offered by

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. In July 2015, thanks to an agreement with

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, the service was included in the provider's

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offers. Since 1 September 2015, the Infinity price list has been made available free of charge to all Mediaset Premium "Cinema" package subscribers. From 5 March 2015 to 12 January 2016, Infinity included a section entitled "Cinema Live" in which the Premium Cinema +24, Premium Cinema Emotion, Premium Cinema Energy and Premium Cinema Comedy channels were broadcast in live streaming. In December 2015, Infinity launched Première, i.e. a selection of very recently introduced films, available free of charge for one week to platform subscribers. From 1 June 2018 the "Live Channels" section was introduced, where the linear cinema and series channels usable on Mediaset Premium are made available. From the end of October 2019, streaming of the other

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available

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was also added (only for the

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) to the Live Channels section, with the exception of

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and the kids and music channels. In November 2020 Mediaset launched Infinity Selection, an additional channel of

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that offers some contents of the platform. On 8 April 2021, as announced last March, the platform is incorporated into

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and the paid contents of Infinity are transferred to Infinity+.

Logos

File:Infinity TV logo.svg, 2013-2017 File:Infinity TV logo (2017).svg, 2017-2021

References

External links

Infinity
R.T.I. - Mediaset Defunct video on demand services {{improve categories, date=May 2023