Warner Home Video Reaches Agreement With Ruckus To Offer Movies To Colleges On Its Digital Entertainment Network

1-Sep-05

Warner Home Video (WHV) and Ruckus announced plans to offer feature films and television series episodes on its digital entertainment network to college students where Ruckus is installed on campus. The license with WHV bolsters Ruckus' already impressive catalogue of available subscription video-on-demand, and premium pay-per-view video on demand offerings. By signing with WHV, Ruckus will be adding blockbuster movies such as ""Batman Begins"" and ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" to its video-on-demand offering. Via Ruckus' subscription service, students will also gain access to many favorite and cult-classic titles including ""Lethal Weapon,"" ""Dirty Harry,"" ""Mars Attacks,"" ""The Shining"" and ""The Matrix."" ""We are very pleased to have made this agreement with Ruckus,"" said Jeff Calman, Executive Vice President of Warner Home Video. ""Ruckus is supplying high quality, fully-licensed digital movies to students -- straight to their computer screens -- faster, safer, and better than illegal file sharing services,"" he added. Ruckus is the first digital entertainment network to license movies for use in an academic environment. Professors will be able to more easily use film as an educational tool in the classroom by assigning fully licensed and legal films through Ruckus. ""We are very excited to offer a large catalogue of Warner Bros. movies to our users on a subscription basis,"" said William J. Raduchel, CEO and chairman of Ruckus. ""We feel that Ruckus' ease of use, fast download times, and huge selection of digital media -- both music and movies -- makes it an incredible and legal alternative to p-2-p file sharing. This makes Ruckus a great service for acquiring legal digital media for students, and a great platform for educating and supplying legal and licensed music and movies for movie studios and music labels. We are proud to be able to bridge the gap between students and legal media."" The Ruckus subscription movie service is available to students matriculating at colleges that are currently members of the Ruckus family of connected campuses. The service costs students less than the average cost of a DVD movie for an entire semester of usage.

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