The success of Hulu as an alternative site for online television has awakened the interest of three major Hollywood studios, which ended up seeing a positive view of the market for Internet videos. Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM have joined to launch a similar service, called Epix HD, specifically about movies. This means that you can watch movies like Iron Man, Cloverfield and others, without commercial interruption.

The site is still in private beta, only for the lucky few, but some sites had access to the channel. For who could see, the first HD Epix will be released as a cable channel and later as a website. But to have access to the site, we have to have the channel in our subscription package. Nothing is perfect…

This is a good proposal to come from Hollywood studios, which has been so reluctant to put content online lately. Of course, unlike Hulu, there is the possibility of seeing them in more countries than just the United States. In addition, the Epix Megaplex, by which the network option available to all distributors of the Epix will be called, will also include films that have never been scanned, including crime dramas, musical and gangs.

However, now another service even more interesting was knotted by Epix: “people who subscribed to both the TV service and an Internet service from a partner (like Verizon) could then access epixhd.com for 720p on-demand streaming to their computers at any time “(Ars Technica).

If this project succeeds, the Epix has the potential to become another “phenomenon” of the Internet because certainly the ability to watch any movies this way is very tempting.

Via: Ars Technica.