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Burbank, CA, February 17, 2004- TVN Entertainment,
a leading provider of on-demand television programming, management
and delivery solutions, and Starz Encore Group LLC (Starz),
the largest provider of premium movie services in the United
States, today announced a long-term extension of their agreement
covering Starz' subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service
Starz On Demand.
TVN will provide Starz with a range of VOD Services in support
of Starz On Demand's content distribution, including encoding,
asset management, site-specific metadata and multicast transport
to VOD systems throughout the United States via TVN's ADONISS
platform. TVN will deliver Starz On Demand content to MSOs
offering the monthly on-demand movie service, currently including,
Comcast, Adelphia, Insight, and others.
Starz On Demand is an enhancement to the Starz Super Pak,
providing impulse viewing of Starz movies with "VCR-like"
functionality as part of the monthly subscription and with
no fee per view. Starz On Demand features over 100 great movies
every month, selected from titles shown across the Starz Super
Pak, Starz Encore Group's collection of up to 13 digital movie
channels.
"Starz has been a leader in making SVOD a valuable new
addition to MSOs' premium television packages," said
Jim Riley, SVP of Sales & Business Development for TVN.
"This agreement ensures that TVN's affiliates will have
access to outstanding entertainment product from one of the
pioneering SVOD programming providers."
"TVN provides a superb one stop VOD shop for programmers
and operators alike," said Ray Milius, vice president
of technology for Starz. "TVN's open-platform system
allows us a very flexible solution for implementing our SVOD
content distribution strategy."
About TVN Entertainment Corporation
TVN Entertainment, a Video-On-Demand (VOD) and Pay-Per-View
(PPV) content solutions company, is a leading provider of
on demand television programming, management and delivery
services. TVN currently distributes more than 1500 hours of
VOD programming from over 70 content providers. In addition
to comprehensive programming services, TVN Entertainment offers
the only single-source management and distribution solution
for VOD and PPV, including content aggregation, packaging,
encoding, asset management and transport via satellite to
all video service providers. TVN Entertainment has been chosen
as the VOD solution for many leading MSOs, including Adelphia,
Charter, Comcast, Insight and Mediacom. For more information
visit www.tvn.com.
About Starz
Starz is the largest provider of premium movie services in
the United States with approximately 144 million pay units.
Starz offerings include the Starz Super Pak®, with up
to 13 digital movie channels and more than 750 movies per
month, Starz On Demand®, the only on-demand pay TV subscription
service available on cable, satellite, and broadband platforms,
and a suite of advanced video offerings, including STARZ!
HD(sm), STARZ! Hi Res(sm), and Starz On Demand HD(sm). Starz
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation
(NYSE: L, LMCb), www.starz.com.
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