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Starz Vongo

For more than a year now, music lovers have enjoyed all-you-can-eat subscription services such as Napster To Go and Yahoo Music Unlimited. Now movie lovers are in for the same treat, courtesy of Starz Vongo. After months of beta testing, this first-of-its-kind service is finally ready for its close-up. For...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Digital media, Starz Vongo, window, movie, Starz

Product reviews 2006-06-22

Meet Vongo, Netflix-Killer

Meet Vongo, Netflix-KillerGreat idea BUTkeep in mind not everyone wants to use their PC to watch movies. Not everyone is connected to high speed internet so this will be an issue. Netflix won't die, they will lose market share, but not die. There are too many people that are "old...

Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, DVD, Digital music, Digital media, Starz Vongo, movie

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

Meet Vongo, Netflix-Killer

That's tyrannosaurus rex Sue, now a fossil on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. She and her homeys died 80 million years ago so there would be enough fossil fuels to run the U.S. Postal Service truck that brings your Netflix envelope with the movies you ordered.But then...

Tags: Starz Vongo

Blog posts 2006-04-26

The bandwidth scarcity myth

In one of his latest missives from CES, Bob Frankston reminds us of how bandwidth isn't nearly as scarce as some would lead you to believe and that it's just that some people are making up reasons for why most of what's there needs to be dominated by...

Tags: bandwidth

Blog posts 2006-01-11

Watch out Netflix-here comes VONGO

Watch out Netflix-here comes VONGODon't count Netflix out, yetVONGO has only 1000+ titles, while Netflix claims 55,000. While many of those are probably TV shows, even a 18 months ago, when I tried it out, it had over 17,000 titles. This is where Netflix has the long tail,...

Tags: Financial services, Starz Vongo, NetFlix Inc., e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-01-07

Watch out Netflix-here comes VONGO

Bleary eyed, I turned on the tv in my Las Vegas hotel room at about 4:30 a.m. this morning.Watched the CES Channel, and learned all about VONGO, the new video download application and service for broadband from Starz Entertainment Group that delivers movies and other digital content to PCs and...

Tags: Starz Vongo

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Tech tunes into TV at CES

Tech tunes into TV at CESVideo, SchmidioWhat video. Snippits. Commercials. Briefs. Music Videos.Big whoopie.Let me know when I can get full TV. Let me know when I can watch full-length movies.Let me know when there is REAL Video. Not this nickle and dime petty...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, theater, video, Starz Vongo, TV

Discussion threads 2006-01-03

Additional Resources

Guba

Editors' note: Guba has just signed a distribution deal with Sony Pictures. Adding 100 of the studio's feature films (available 7/12/06) to the Guba premium lineup is definitely an improvement for this fledgling service. (7/11/06)Take the homemade and user-driven sensibilities of a YouTube and add the feature-film pedigree of a...

Tags: video, Guba

Product reviews 2006-07-06

HP Media Storage Solution Helps Provider of Premium Movie Content Leave Subscribers Wanting More

Nowadays media companies must be able to manage massive amounts of digital information. Multiply that times thousands of titles and one has got a storage problem of blockbuster proportions. But, despite storage challenges, fundamental shifts in the entertainment world are presenting attractive opportunities for digital content management and digital delivery...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Movie, Media, Storage, Hardware

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