Under the terms of the deal, re:fine and DCD Rights will be working together for an exclusive 3 year period on future storage and digital distribution, including 2500 hours of  top music, entertainment, and factual content.

DCD Rights is employing re:fine to facilitate its proactive move into digital distribution, taking advantage of the economies of scale associated with this method of global servicing.

Steve Ayton, MD of DCD commented on the deal, “  We are delighted to be working with re:fine, whose high level service culture, and vision of where the industry is going matches our own”

“We are very happy to be working with DCD, helping them manage the tape to digital transition and managing all of the storage, dubbing, encoding and distribution requirements for their excellent range of top-quality programming, “ said Alex Kennedy, Business Development Director at re:fine.

‘Now that iPlayer has lit the blue touch paper under catch-up TV, effectively creating the mass market for video on-demand, 2010 will be the year when a glut of competing services vie to be one of the UK’s main VOD aggregators. They can’t all win, so here’s our bet on who has the biggest likelihood of succeeding…’

For in-depth analysis of the main players and evaluation of the leading contenders we recommend reading the article in full at paidcontent.co.uk

Their predictions for 2010 are below -  the race is on!

1. BBC iplayer / YouTube
2. Canvas
3. Skyplayer
4. SeeSaw / MSN Video
5. BlinkBox
6. Hulu