New schedule offers Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters
Dubai, January 4, 2005: Emirates Cable TV and Multimedia (E-Vision), a subsidiary of Emirates Telecommunications corporation, has celebrated the beginning of the new year by announcing today that it had cut the prices of western and Hindi movies on e-View, its pay-per-view service.
Hollywood films can now be viewed for Dhs10, instead of Dhs14, and Bollywood titles for Dhs5 instead of Dhs7. The price cuts coincide with E-Vision unveiling its new film schedule that includes Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters and new movies.
Kamal Nassif, e-View's manager, said: "This reflects E-Vision's commitment to bring customers the latest releases while offering them real and affordable value. Our customers will have a choice of popular, blockbuster and critically acclaimed films at an attractive price."
Premiering on e-View will be the Bollywood crime-thriller Inteqam, a movie about a writer Avantika (Isha Kopikar) moving to Mumbai to write about the Indian police force. Her friend is killed in a manner similar to that described in her book. A series of murders follows, each connected in a sinister manner to the writer, making her the prime suspect.
Others in the pipeline include Hindi Blockbusters Fida and Naach, and the Hollywood hit Basic, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. In addition to Dawn of the Dead, and the award-wining "Kandahar".
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Notes for editorsE-Vision is the only TV entertainment provider in the region to offer an interactive service. In addition to e-View, E-Vision has an interactive gaming channel, e-Games.
Subscribers to E-Vision benefit from an advanced interactive voice response system for accessing movies on e-View. Customers can use Etislalat's pre-paid calling cards to transfer credit to their E-Vision smart cards in order to access e-View movies in an attempt to make pay-per-view more convenient and easy to use. The user-friendly system relies on highly sophisticated IVR, interactive voice response technology, which will guide customers logically through the process of adding credit in the form of tokens to their account in order to enjoy the latest blockbuster movies at home.
E-Vision is the most comprehensive source of TV entertainment in the Arab world. The cable provider is a platform for the most prestigious bouquets on the market: Showtime, Orbit, ART, Firstnet and Pehla.
E-Vision is a subsidiary of the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), and the only cable provider in the UAE. The company was established in April 2000.
Press Release Issued by Public Relations Department - E-Vision
Tel: 04 3135214
Fax: 04 3355752
evision@emirates.net.ae
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