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Starz Launches Vongo Web-Based Portable Video-on-Demand Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 3, 2006 - 8:13am.
Englewood, Colo. - Starz Entertainment Group, a cable TV network unit of Liberty Media, on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Internet-based video-on-demand service, Vongo, that lets users download movies for playback on their TVs, computers or portable media devices. For $9.99 per month, subscribers will have access to unlimited downloads of more than 1,000 movies and video selections -- including recent titles from Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema, and library selections from other studios -- in addition to a live stream of the Starz TV channel. Pay-per-view titles will also be offered for $3.99 per movie. Starz partnered with Sony's Connect Video download service, and Vongo will be a featured content provider when that service launches later this year. Starz also teamed with Microsoft, whose Windows Media technology will be used to allow transfer of content to Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-based portable media players. "Vongo will provide the key content application that will drive a new era in portable video delivered over the Internet," said Starz president and CEO Robert B. Clasen.
tags: Video | Starz | Vongo | Web-based | Portable |

CNET News.com: Digital Music Services Turning to Web-based Sales

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 4, 2005 - 2:59am.
San Francisco - CNET News.com on Friday reported on the move by a growing number of digital music services to offer songs for sale directly from the Web, rather than requiring users to first download an application like iTunes or Rhapsody and then purchase songs through the software. In addition to AOL's move to online retailing with its MusicNow acquisition yesterday, both Napster and RealNetworks have hinted they are planning to follow suit. "What we've heard from customers is that anytime, anywhere access is extremely important," Ed Fish, the AOL senior vice president in charge of music and other subscription services, told News.com. "We have 112 million unique visitors coming to AOL sites. We should make music available to those people as well."
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