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Voddler is a commercial video-on-demand service and accompanying media player client application distributing movies and television programming using a patented hybrid peer-to-peer distribution system. Voddler was founded 2005 by Magnus Dalhamn and Mattias Bergström. Voddler's concept is similar to those of Amazon Video on Demand, Vudu, Headweb, Spotify, and Grooveshark, but only for video, and with its media player client software's 10-foot user interface is primarily designed for the living-room TV instead of a desktop computer interface, much like the graphical user interface of Boxee. The service in its advertisement-financed version is currently only available in parts of Nordic countries of Europe during the ongoing beta phase, although they claim that their subscription model will in the future also be available in almost all countries in North America, Western Europe, Russia and the Baltic states. Voddler is developed by a privately held for-profit startup company 'Voddler, Inc.' which is a Swedish high tech company with its head office in Stockholm, the corporation was founded in 2005 and is responsible for the development of the Voddler P2P/TV video content delivery service and Voddler Player client software. Financially backed by funding from several small venture capital companies like Swedish Deseven and Finnish Eqvitec, as well as investments from Elisa Oyj (a Finnish telecommunications company) In September of 2010 Voddler also introducted "'Voddler Social'" with integrated social networking features into the Voddler media player client that allow you to directly share recommendations to your friends, similar to that of Boxee and Spotify media player clients and their respective social networks. |
