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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSeeing Starz on the Internet: Vongo subscription service is one of several TV announcements at CES.(TECHNOLOGY)(Starz Entertainment Group)
Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2006 by Dickson, Glen
Premium movie service Starz Entertainment Group jumped on the mobile-video bandwagon last week with the launch of Vongo, a subscription service that will deliver both live streaming video and on-demand downloads through the Internet.
The video content is suitable for viewing on portable media players, computers and, with proper connections, even TVs. Vongo is partnering with Microsoft, which is supplying its Media Player streaming technology, and Sony, which will feature the service when it launches video on its Connect music-download service later this year.
Vongo will offer more than 1,000 movies and other programs in downloadable form, as well as a live 700-kilobit-persecond streaming feed of Starz's primary East Coast network, for $9.99 per...
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