Sony Pictures Digital Networks will use Portal Software's platform as the underlying technology for pricing, billing, and subscriber and revenue management of its premium online services. In the past six months, Sony Pictures Digital Networks has launched two new subscription-based services, SoapCity Download and Screenblast.com's premium online creativity service.
- SoapCity Download provides current day, full-length, commercially uninterrupted episodes of "The Young and the Restless," "Days of our Lives," and "As the World Turns" to broadband users on a pay-per-episode or subscription basis.
Screenblast.com helps consumers create, enhance, and share their digital images, video and music. The recently introduced and enhanced Screenblast online creativity service makes it easier and more entertaining for consumers to share their "life moments" digitally.
Portal software will enable Sony to charge for online content using one-time, transaction-based, subscription, prepaid, and postpaid pricing models. Other Portal content customers include Reuters, Terra Lycos, AOL Time Warner, and Vivendi.
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