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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: Video

Is it worth downloading movies legally?

Amazon Unbox
There are roughly a billion services offering you ways to legally download movies and television shows from the internet. But the thing is, most of them still pale in comparison to illegal BitTorrent downloads in terms of selection and quality.

Still, the folks at PC Magazine wanted to take a look at the current state of legal movie downloads. They spent a week with some of the top sites, including iTunes, CinemaNow, MovieLink, Vongo, Amazon Unbox, and MovieFlix.

In a nutshell, Amazon Unbox has the highest quality movies, CinemaNow is the only service that lets you burn videos to DVD, and MovieFlix is cheap, with a subscription of just $7.95 a month, but the selection is mostly older movies.

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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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