Fasten your seat belts — CES is getting underway and the crush of announcements will yield a treasure trove of new IP media and communications advancements. Right off the bat, cable network company Starz Entertainment tried to beat the rush by giving a few key pubs advance word of new capabilities for its online service, Starz Ticket.
Starz is unveiling today a $9.95 month service called Vongo that allows subscribers to download and unlimited number of movies from the Internet and watch them on the PC, hand-held devices such as portable video players or TVs, a departure from Starz Ticket’s limitation that allows downloading and viewing only on PCs. Another departure: Starz Ticket is powered by RealNetworks’ technology, but Vongo will use Microsoft’s security and media player technologies.
Starz will also offer Vongo on Sony’s previously audio-only service Connect Download.
Cynthia Brumfield at 10:10 AM|Comments(0)
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