Shomi, the daughter of martyred intellectual Shahidullah Kaiser and former MP Panna Kaiser, was a popular actress in the 1990s and later moved into entertainment production.

Like QR codes, Shomi codes link to digital content. However, as Shomi codes are based on font they’re smaller and more flexible than their counterpart, and they don’t need to be black and white.

Shomi, the daughter of martyred intellectual Shahidullah Kaiser and former MP Panna Kaiser, was a popular actress in the 1990s and later moved into production.

Video streaming has already gone mainstream, largely through the success of Netflix. This week brings the debut of Shomi, a Canadian-only service available exclusively to Rogers and Shaw customers.

Shomi — with its much meeker content library — just couldn't cut it, says industry analyst Mario Mota. "For any smaller player, in any domestic market, ...

Shomi hasn’t said yet what will happen to its content. Bell's CraveTV will be available to all Canadians in January. Vlessing said he expects it to end up somewhere else.

Sadaf Ahsan: While Netflix has played my long-suffering but dutiful husband, shomi quickly became my much younger sidepiece, eagerly waiting and ready to go ...

Of course, Shomi isn't the first streaming company to buckle under the weight of Netflix; Redbox, for example, killed off its Instant streaming service back in late 2014. Advertisement.

Shomi announced Monday it was shutting down at the end of November, two years after the video-on-demand service launched.. Go to Main Content. Menu. Search Site. Subscribe. Subscribe.

Shomi, the two-year-old Canadian SVoD service operated by Rogers Media and Shaw Media, is to close on November 30. The joint venture launched in November 2014 offering some 11,000 hours of TV content, ...