LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - May 06, 2013) -  http://www.FilmOn.TV FilmOn.TV the world's largest free live TV platform for mobile and Internet today unveils The Legend Of Bruce Lee an original thirty-hour biopic TV series exclusive to FilmOn. The entire series is ad-funded and free to the tens of millions of FilmOn fans in the USA.

The entire thirty hours plays in the USA for the first time and was produced by Los Angeles based Shannon Lee (his daughter), who also Chairs the Bruce Lee Foundation. 

FilmOn acquired the exclusive US rights to stream the thirty, one-hour episodes of the extravagantly produced biopic The Legend Of Bruce Lee from China's national broadcaster CCTV. The series was originally made in the Chinese language and dubbed to English for US audiences.

Founder & CEO of FilmOn Alki David said "For the millions of Bruce Lee fans in the USA who will have never seen the series before may have been teased by a Lionsgate 90 minute film version, which was criticized for not covering enough of Bruce's life-story! Now they can see the full thirty hour dramatization of Bruce Lee's life-story starring Kwok-Kwan Chan as Bruce Lee, completely for free on FilmOn.TV

FilmOn also offers an additional 500 plus advertiser funded TV Channels including live Local Television broadcasts in New York, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Washington DC, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Leading up to the launch of this exclusive series FilmOn's promotional YouTube video was watched over 650 000 times http://youtu.be/vbDu6EVuul4

The service allows viewers to connect directly to a broadcaster’s satellite and digital over-the-air feeds via their PC or smartphone. People can then watch the channel of their choice live and for free, including channels from mainstream broadcasters in the UK such as ITV, BBC, and Channel 4.

FilmOn is using satellite reception in Switzerland, a country where reception and distribution of any receivable free-to-air signal is allowed. This offers local platforms including Swisscom IPTv and UPC Cablecom to receive and distribute channels including the domestic BBC channels and Channel 4. Now FilmOn also seems to jump on this opportunity and claims staying within all rules and regulations.

FilmOn CEO David said in a statement: “Viewers then receive content via their own unique satellite dish or micro antenna which is assigned to them when they connect to any one of our many European, American, Middle Eastern and soon-to-be-launched Asian antenna farms.”

“This is a game-changer because it gives consumers a great new way to access content which is already freely available to them in their geographical area.”

David added: “FilmOn has updated its technology to ensure it is fully compliant with a recent European Court of Justice ruling that prohibits the retransmission of certain TV channels.”

Rather than offer a retransmission, FilmOn through its Swiss-based subsidiary (FilmOn X) lets viewers control their own unique dish or micro digital antenna in order to tune into the broadcaster’s own transmission to view it in its original format.

Users can also purchase these antennas which are delivered to their home and can be connected to their device by WiFi.

However, FilmOn said it “will respect a broadcaster’s control over where their content is available by ensuring the service respects international boundaries where they are already in force.”

The Shakespearean legal war over digital television has taken another step towards the preternatural.

Alki David's FilmOn has filed a new lawsuit in California federal court against Aereo, the upstart company funded in large part byBarry Diller.

Both companies capture the signals of TV broadcasters like CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox and deliver them to subscribers online. Both enterprises have been defending lawsuits against those same broadcasters. Naturally, there's a rivalry between the would-be digital TV titans, which has born some odd triangular litigation.

On Thursday, FilmOn claimed rights to "Aero," and that Aereo has taken a moniker that's confusingly similar. The new lawsuit comes six months after David was sued after attempting to redub his own service asBarryDriller.com and AereoKiller.

The basis for the lawsuit filed on Thursday comes from the allegation that months before  Bamboon Labs changed its name to Aereo, FilmOn already had a hold on "Aero."

Specifically, David's company says that it had been distributing a portable mini-television antenna product for Windows equipped computers called "WinTV-Aero-m." The product was manufactured by Hauppauge Computer Works, which consented to FilmOn's use of "Aero." The complaint adds that on Wednesday -- a day before the lawsuit was filed -- Hauppauge assigned in writing to FilmOn the rights to the trademark "Aero."

"Seeking to unfairly capitalize on the success of WinTV-Aero-m and the name 'Aero,' Defendant Aereo devised a scheme to start a competing business," says the lawsuit alleging false designation of origin under the Lanham Act.

Read the full complaint here.

The lawsuit represents a specialty of the eccentric Alki David -- revenge litigation. After he was sued by the broadcasters, for instance, he turned around and filed a lawsuit against CBSfor facilitating piracy.

David's latest legal jab follows the same pattern. In August, Barry Diller sued over BarryDriller.com and AereoKiller, alleging that his own name was being exploited and that FilmOn was unfairly attempting to associate its services with Diller's.

The irony is that while both of these companies sue each other, they have things in common beyond any name-calling.

The major networks believe that both Aereo and FilmOn commit massive infringement by violating the transmit clause of the U.S. Copyright Act.

Aereo has been more lucky on this front, defeating a requested injunction as the dispute isnow under appeal.

As for FilmOn, a California judge recently agreed to grant broadcasters' motion for a preliminary injunction, although it was with the caveat that it applied only "within the geographical boundaries of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" -- meaning much of the Northwest. Also on Thursday, the ruling was appealed.

As FilmOn fights for its survival in the Ninth Circuit and Aereo fights in the Second Circuit -- and battle each other in the midst -- the possibility exists for split rulings, which could set up a Supreme Court showdown over the future of TV streaming.

For now, David says that despite the recent injunction ruling, his service is doing well, offering the major TV networks in seven major cities in the U.S. And if all that hasn't sufficiently reached the heights of 21st century legal bizarre, David has also announced that his own TV stations have recently reached a distribution deal with Dish Network, the same satellite TV company that is also in the midst of a copyright war with broadcasters.

"Personally I blame the lawyers," he says. "If it were not for their insatiable desire to create billable controversy we would not be in the situation where I have to spend my time and resources to punish them."

LONDON October 4, 2012 - FilmOn.com Ltd., the UK division of FilmOn.TV Networks and ABC Commercial, Australia have reached a unique partnership. Under the terms of the new agreement with ABC Commercial, Australia, Filmon.com Ltd., will be the first internet platform to sign a deal with a major National broadcaster for an internet-only TV channel. The new channel, identified as ABC Australia will feature ABC Australia content only and be branded with the ABC logo.

In the first global online deal of its type, ABC Commercial has signed the agreement with www.filmon.com to build a unique ABC International branded linear channel which will feature a diverse range of Australian Content for international distribution via filmon's own global platform.

Filmon.tv Networks Founder and CEO Alki David said, “Filmon.com is proud to distribute ABC Commercial, Australia's first Internet TV Channel. Australians are known to be great travelers and now with Filmon's global internet network, including the hugely successful apps, we can bring them a taste of home wherever they are, while simultaneously showcasing the best in Australian entertainment for audiences around the word.

Jessica Ellis, Manager, Digital Sales and Distribution for ABC Commercial said, “Consumer’s viewing habits continue to shift dramatically and we are more empowered by technology than ever before. As a result, audiences have greater expectations about when, where and how they watch, which is why we are expanding our ABC Catalogue to global online platforms. This is a very exciting opportunity and we look forward to working with www.filmon.com.”

Content will be chosen by ABC and scheduled by Filmon.com, making the channel run in a linear style. It will be available for six hours repeated four times a day to complete a 24 hour cycle. The channel will be available on an “A La Carte” basis meaning customers can subscribe to it separately. This is a straight streaming deal where Filmon.tv acquires the channel as is and streams it globally via the Filmon platform. FilmOn is the world’s first and largest live TV delivery platform for the Internet offering over 260 premium live TV channels. FilmOn also creates original interactive content programming.

It brings the obvious internet outlets to your living room, such as Hulu and Pandora, but what sets the OmniBox apart is that is offers live television as well. ABC, FOX, CBS, and NBC are all here, along with "200 live channels in cooperation with FilmOn with genres including sports, music, news and more."

Interested? Buy the $150 box here. Want the live television capabilities? It costs $25 per month (no contract) and you're good to go.

Watch the video below for more:

It brings the obvious internet outlets to your living room, such as Hulu and Pandora, but what sets the OmniBox apart is that is offers live television as well. ABC, FOX, CBS, and NBC are all here, along with "200 live channels in cooperation with FilmOn with genres including sports, music, news and more."

Interested? Buy the $150 box here. Want the live television capabilities? It costs $25 per month (no contract) and you're good to go.

Watch the video below for more:

Alkiviades "Alki" David, a controversial digital media entrepreneur, is looking for some revenge against Fox Broadcasting.

The basic premise of the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court is straightforward: Fox allegedly has libeled David's company, FilmOn.com, by making false statements and misrepresenting past court orders to third parties including Apple, Google and Microsoft.

But beneath the surface is an ongoing and heated war over the copyright legitimacy of technology used to digitally deliver over-the-air TV.

Fox says in a statement, "Although we have not seen the suit we welcome the opportunity to let the court determine the legitimacy of Mr. David's business practices."

David is an eccentric billionaire who operates several businesses, mostly recently KILM Channel 64 in Los Angeles. He has poured $17 million into FilmOn, his company that digitally transmits on-air television and other video content to subscribers. The company's board includes Charlie Sheen and Ice-T, among others.

He's been locked in a battle with the major TV networks for quite some time, and after he launched FilmOn about five years ago, he was taken to New York federal court by CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. There, the networks prevailed in getting a preliminary injunction that stopped the transmission of their networks on FilmOn.

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But David says he changed the technology and launched a new iteration of the service. He was emboldened when in July, a federal judge denied an injunction against one of his competitors, Aereo, which he believes is offering a similar technology as his own.

Nevertheless, he was sued again by all the networks this past summer.

As he continues to defend FilmOn from the networks that believe his service is a huge threat to the TV industry, David has been attempting to make inroads in the technology sector. Recently, he says he struck a deal with Lenovo, one of the world's biggest computer manufacturers, to have FilmOn TV Live to be the exclusive streaming app preloaded on Lenovo's Window 8 devices. Concurrently, he's been submitting his apps for distribution through Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Fox hasn't let this go unnoticed, he alleges in his new complaint for trade libel.

He charges Fox, which he now considers to be a competitor, with a "malicious attempt to dissuade those companies from offering those apps to their customers for download."

Fox did so by passing around the 2009 injunctive order, even though he says "the New York Injunction pertains to different parties and technologies."

"Fox knew that these statements were false when it made them," the lawsuit continues, adding that Fox's lawyers have violated the confidentiality of a certain deposition that he gave to "target additional prospective business partners of FilmOn."

As a result of Fox’s actions, charges the suit, Apple, Google and Microsoft removed FilmOn’s apps from their stores.

He now is demanding compensatory damages and an order restraining Fox from engaging in further alleged unlawful contact with FilmOn's retailers, suppliers, partners and customers.

This isn't the first time that David has sought revenge in the courtroom. He previouslytargeted the digital division of CBS for "hypocrisy" for allowing Internet users to download P2P software such as Grokster and Limewire. After a settlement, that case was put on hold, but David says he plans to revive it soon.

In the meantime, he has picked a new battle with Fox that targets discussions made between a top television network and big tech companies in the ongoing battles over piracy. The lawsuit also indirectly deals with the way that nondefendants Apple, Google and Microsoft handle their app stores -- of interest to many in the tech community -- and raises the issue of whether alleged interference can amount to trade libel.

Beverly Hills, CA (MMD Newswire) October 26, 2012 -- FilmOn.TV Inc. (http://www.FilmOn.com) the US division of FilmOn TV Networks and Lenovo, The World's number one leading PC manufacturer with a global market share of over 16%, have reached an agreement to deliver a Windows 8 preload Install of FilmOn's Live Streaming Television Application to tens of millions of Lenovo PC builds.

"Lenovo is the perfect partner for FilmOn. Lenovo has over 16% of the World PC market share. Coupled with FilmOn, the joint venture is set to dominate the $23 Billion market of IP Television on the Internet." said CEO and Founder Alki David.

Feng Lee, Director of Content Partnerships World Wide commented, "FilmOn's extensive lineup of content coupled with their engineering excellence really caught our attention. We are very happy to be working with FilmOn on this project."

Lenovo is the first Chinese company to take the top spot globally in a technology sector inching past HP to reach the number one spot with a decisive 16% Market Share in the PC market place.

FilmOn is the world's first and largest live TV delivery platform for the Internet offering over 260 premium live TV channels World Wide. FilmOn also creates original interactive content programming as well as delivering interactive television services over the air and to satellite.

Preview the "Television" app in the Microsoft Windows 8 Metro Store: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/television/cfe552ff-8dfa-41ad-b223-7e0a9bca1c7f

Who said you couldn’t share a desktop? Here’s another advance from CES—the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas—that’s got us excited: Lenovo’s brand new home tabletop touch-screen computer called the Horizon, a product that the company dubbed the first “interpersonal computer.” It’s a computer that utilizes Windows 8’s touch-based features for multi-player gaming and multitasking with photos, music and video on the same screen. The nearly 18 pound computer can also be used as a 27-inch desktop.

“We’ve seen technology shifts across the four screens, from the desktop to the laptop, tablet and smartphone, and yet, while people have more computing power than ever before, there is still room for technologies like Horizon that bring people together,” Lenovo’s president, Peter Hortensius, said in a press release.

Here’s the cool part: You’re going to be able to play electronic board games with electronic pieces and dice, all using the Windows 8 system.

The company’s promised perks like a modern take on Monopoly, plus 120 streaming TV channels through FilmOn TV and on-screen painting. Lenovo also had an 84-inch touch table at the event, which we’re guessing might not hit the consumer market for a while. The starting price for this family friendly computer is $1,699. Check out a preview of the device from CES in the video below:

It recently launched what it’s calling the “first multi-channel live TV app for Facebook, offering 150 live HD TV channels streamed directly through Facebook.

The new ‘FilmOn Live TV’ Facebook app lets you watch live TV and invite friends to join in and discuss or comment on programmes in real-time.

Along with broadcast channels from across the world, FilmOn.TV hosts exclusive content from a number of celebrities, including weekly shows hosted by the likes ofAndy Dick, as well as football, music, movies, history, special interest and children’s TV.

All you need to do is visit FilmOnFacebook.com, where you’ll be invited to connect with Facebook. After this, you’ll see a list of channels down the left-hand side. From the UK, I was able to stream a selection of terrestrial and Freeview channels, including a live football (soccer) match from ITV:

If nothing else, FilmOn TV’s Facebook app provides a slightly-more-social alternative to the likes of TVCatchup in the UK.

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