Quickflix was an Australian company that provided online DVD and Blu-ray Disc rental by mail as well as internet streaming of movies and television shows via online pay-per-view or subscription.
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14 Facts About Quickflix
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Quickflix streaming was available over a range of smart TVs, games consoles, Blu-ray players, desktops, laptops, mobiles, tablets and other devices.
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Quickflix was founded by Bill Keech, Sam McDonagh and Stephen Langsford, who were shortly afterwards joined by Simon Hodge.
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Quickflix was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2005, but was delisted in 2017.
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In December 2005, Quickflix acquired rival company HomeScreen, a move that doubled the Quickflix customer base.
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In 2006, Quickflix launched movie downloads, competing against BigPond Movies.
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In that same month Quickflix announced that they would launch a subscription video streaming service initially on a selection of Sony's internet-connected devices, with the service eventually launching on 27 October 2011.
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Quickflix streaming became available on PCs and Macintosh computers, and on the PlayStation 3 later that same year.
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The Quickflix app was installed as a stock app on a number of Windows Phone devices for a time.
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On 26 April 2016, Quickflix Australia announced that the company had entered voluntary administration, appointing Ferrier Hodgson to oversee the process.
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Quickflix blamed the company's largest shareholder, Nine Entertainment for their predicament, as they had refused to restructure the shares it had acquired from HBO, which would have enabled Quickflix to raise additional capital for investing in content and marketing to enable it to compete in an increasingly crowded market.
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Quickflix was relaunched in December 2016, offering a revamped streaming subscription which includes rental of up to four premium titles a month in addition to the set streaming library, and a renewed focus on new release movies.
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However in the subsequent years Quickflix's streaming library saw increasingly limited updates, and the company's focus largely returned to offering disc rental by mail to a niche consumer base.
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