Launch of TonTon.com.my
August 8th, 2010
Media Prima Group launched their new video portal, tonton.com.my, last Friday at Sunway Convention Centre with the tagline ‘our future start here’.
The CEO of the new online media outfit, Ahmad Izham Omar made a dramatic entrance on the stage with the opening gambit performed by the Final Showdown 2010 winner, Wakaka Crew. As the picture here shows, he looked like Steve Job trying to promote iPad.
With RM10 million investment put in, the video portal will put online the group’s impressive 30,000 hours of content library, combining programs from TV3, ntv7, 8TV and TV9. In addition English, Korean, Chinese and Hindustan films and serials will also be available.
The portal, which can be compared to Hulu.com is currently available in beta stage. However, unlike Hulu.com, tonton.com.my will be free to watch. They’ve decided to go with ad supported business model. The system is put together by Accenture with the engine powered by Viocorp, a Sydney based company.
The portal is almost 100% flash powered. Whilst it look great, we wonder how will this effect viewing for non-Flash compatible platform.
In the mean time, let’s cheer for more content and more choice for Malaysian web users – hurrah! We’ve tried it with Unify broadband connection, the watching experience is good and buffer free – even when you hook your notebook to a big screen LCD TV.
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