Foxtel Inks Netflix Partnership

Foxtel has unveiled The New Foxtel Experience, part of which includes a deal to integrate Netflix into its offering.

The New Foxtel Experience will provide customers with its iQ3 and iQ4 set-top boxes with a completely redesigned user experience. It promises more on-demand content than ever included in the customer’s subscription, including complete series box sets. The interface simplifies discovering and navigating Foxtel’s 16,000 hours of TV on-demand, just one click away using the remote home button. The New Foxtel Experience will boast integration of app-based streaming services, starting with Netflix. SBS On Demand will arrive in the coming months. The new Foxtel remote will feature a home button and a Netflix button.

Patrick Delany, Foxtel CEO, said: “We want our customers to have the best of TV and on demand in Australia all in one place. With our new user interface, accessing Foxtel’s 16,000 hours of TV and on-demand content is as simple for customers as one-click on the home button of their existing remote control.

“I can’t think of a better streaming partner to kick off The New Foxtel Experience than Netflix.

“The new customer interface puts two entertainment powerhouses together providing Foxtel customers with access to Netflix service alongside our Foxtel Originals and programs from HBO, FX, the BBC and more.

“More than 1.1 million iQ3 and iQ4 set top boxes are already installed in our customers’ homes. Starting today, The New Foxtel Experience simplifies the way iQ4 users can enjoy Foxtel’s incredible range of drama, sport and movies as well as the best of video on demand, with the experience coming to iQ3 users coming shortly after.

“So whether customers crave Wentworth or Orange is the New Black; Lambs of God or Stranger Things; Big Little Lies or The Crown, they will find it, and more, on Foxtel.”