Starz gets real with broadband SVOD.(Starz Encore Group and Real Networks Inc. to offer a broadband-based online subscription video-on-demand service)
Multichannel News, December, 2002 by Haugsted, Linda
ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- Beginning next spring, Starz Encore Group and Real Networks Inc. will offer a broadband-based online subscription video-on-demand service. Only those consumers who already subscribe to the Starz Super Pak premium service will be able to buy movies online, and only if they connect to the Internet through a cable modem or digital subscriber line platform.
Customers will have to sign up for Real's SuperPass premium online content service, which starts at $9.95, in order to receive the tier of video content dubbed "Starz on Demand on RealOne." The venture was announced at the Western Show here last Wednesday. Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser said his company is still developing a "consumer-friendly interface" that will authenticate...
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