link: Autoclassique.tv

Autoclassique.tv

Posted: February 27, 2010 4:46 PM

Launching on 12 March at Race Retro, Autoclassique.tv is a brand new pay per view service for car and motorsport enthusiasts. Offering streaming videos which can be watched, in real time, at the click of a mouse. The online archive, containing hundreds of films, is a cooperative effort between a number of producers and film archives (see list below). The films are ranged in various categories, such as racing, rallying, marque histories, crash and burn, DIY, rallycross, biographies, etc, and there are several never before seen interviews with drivers from the past and from the present.

The site's moderator, Paul Hargreaves, said:
''We are adding films to the archive every day, so there will always be something new for our subscribers to watch.

"We are particularly proud of our rallying section; as well as the Alpines, the Montes and the Safaris of the pre-WRC era, we have some great films from the Group B period of the early 1980s and a huge collection of modern day classic rallies, including most of the Classic Marathons, the 20-part series covering the 1997 Peking Paris and the 10-part series from the 2007 version of this marathon event.''

Films cost as little as 5p per minute to watch and there is always a selection of free-to-view films. Users of the site can either buy blocks of minutes or take out a monthly subscription. Payments take a few moments through the secure service offered by PayPal. Visitors to the RaceRetro show can help themselves to a voucher card, giving them their first ten minutes of viewing totally free. These vouchers can be obtained at the Autoclassique/AccelerationTV stand. Autoclassique.tv is ready to welcome further content providers to the fold; exclusivity is not demanded, there are no storage or download fees; and 70 percent of each film's earnings are returned to the provider on a monthly basis.

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