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Starz kills Vongo online movie service

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It seems like every day a new company is launching a new way to stream movies online or download them to your computer. Today, there's one less. Vongo, a service provided by Starz Entertainment, was one of the first major players in the online movie space. But it looks like Starz has decided to pull the plug on Vongo.

Starz will now focus on Starz Play, a service the company recently launched for Verizon. Starz Play looks and feels a lot like Vongo -- but it has Verizon branding all over it. Starz is pursuing similar partnerships with other companies.

Current Vongo customers can continue using the service through September 30th. There's some good news in the announcement. Vongo customers paid $9.99 a month for unlimited movie downloads. Starz Play charges just $5.99 for access to the same content library.

[via NewTeeVee]

Filed under: Internet, Video, Commercial

BitTorrent in bed with movie, TV companies

BitTorrentTorrentfreak is reporting that BitTorrent has struck deals with several entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (Comedy Central, MTV etc.), Palm Pictures and Starz Media, which will make those companies' movies and television shows available in BitTorrent's upcoming download store. Among the properties named are X-Men III, Mission: Impossible III, Prison Break, Laguna Beach, and South Park. These companies join Warner Bros. in partnership with BitTorrent, the launch of whose digital media store has been pushed back to early next year.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Microsoft

Starz enters movie download business

VongoCNet News.com is reporting that premium TV network Starz is launching a movie download service called Vongo. Vongo succeeds the preexisting Starz Ticket service that relied on RealNetworks software. The $9.95-a-month subscription service will be powered by Windows Media and Microsoft is set to give it premium placement on its Windows Media devices, but the movies won't be playable on iPods which. They will, however, be available through Sony's Connect service, which may mean PSP owners will be able to take their movies on to go.

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