We have previously stated that P2P downloads of English
movies are acting as a valuable ambassador of the English language and consumer
lifestyle trends to the worlds hungriest P2P market, China.

Today, we will be discussing that Cable Broadcasting
stalwart, the World Movie Channel.

Anyone who subscribes to the World Movies Channel will no
doubt occasionally wonder at the preponderance of Danish and Chinese movies.

Whilst I don’t doubt that the Chinese represent a
significant portion of the world population, one can hardly say the same about
the Danes.

So what gives with all the Danish films on World Movies?

As a guess, I would hazard that the Danes are desirous of
increased diplomatic relations with the world and have elected to discount
their movie offerings to the World Movie Cable channel as a marketing ploy.

It is doubtless working, with Danish movies being about
every 20^th movie being shown.

Why? Well, either World Movies is a Danish Corporation or
has an interest in promoting Danish culture to Australia.

A quick look at http://www.worldmovies.net/?page=corporateinformation

Informs us that:

PAN TV Limited is an independent
Australian company that was founded to produce The WORLD MOVIES Channel for the
Australian subscription television market.

The WORLD MOVIES Channel began broadcasting in October 1995
coinciding with the launch of subscription TV in Australia.

PAN TV Limited is a partnership between three Australian
entities, being: Australian Capital Equity, APN News and Media and
Multilingual Subscriber Television Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of SBS)
The China based media company Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group is also a
minority investor.

OK, at least we know where the Chinese content comes from.

But I re-iterate – why are we getting all the Danish
content?

It’s not that I mind Danish content, but to be perfectly
honest I paid the $6.95 per month for Hungarian content of which there was
precious little of. Now Hungary
has about the same population impact on the World so how come there arn’t as
many Hungarian movies as Danish movies?

What was that, oh we have a Danish Princess ?

Oh sorry, the Danes have an Australian Princess ?

Ah,  an ex-pat Aussie
girl is now a Danish Princess. Right. Got it. So that is why Australians pay
$6.95 per month, so they can become comfortable about losing one of our own to
them.

Good-oh. As long as we know.

PS: World Movies – Regardless your good intentions, If it’s
called World Movies it should have a balanced representative content based
approximately on the population breakdown of languages spoken at home (hint: in
Australia) as per the last census.

Otherwise it should be renamed to Danish Movies Channel #
and Other World Movies Channel ##

PPS: Don’t bother with the Hungarian movies. Your one
Hungarian subscriber – me, has resigned his Foxtel subscription. I now get all my
Hungarian content via IPTV – for free. Thanks very much.

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