Akimbo Systems Inc. will launch their new Internet Video-On-Demand service in October.

Subscribers will be able to select programming to be downloaded via a broadband Internet connection onto the Akimbo Player’s 80-gigabyte hard drive, which Akimbo says will hold about 200 hours of video. The player costs $229.99 and requires a monthly subscription fee of $9.99.

Akimbo will provide a library of 20,000 hours of video from 50 content providers, including CinemaNow a film library said to contain over 4,000 films.

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