Company OverviewStarz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 17.3 million and 30.7 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.
Starz Entertainment offers 13 uncut, commercial-free premium movie channels comprising the Starz Encore Movie Pack, spearheaded by the two flagship channels, Starz® and Encore®. The remaining channels, MoviePlex, RetroPlex and IndiePlex are available through select affiliates.
Starz Entertainment is the exclusive subscription television and broadband provider of Starz Originals (including "Crash," "Head Case," "Party Down," "Starz Inside") and first-run films from leading Hollywood studios including Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Overture Films, Miramax Films, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Pixar, TriStar, Screen Gems, Sony Classics, and Warren Miller Films. Starz licenses hundreds of feature films from a wide array of independent distributors including IFC, Yari Film Group, and Summit Entertainment and a vast collection of classic and favorite titles from most Hollywood studios.
On Demand and Broadband Offerings
Encore On Demand - Up to 150 movies on demand to select from at any given time. Titles are drawn from a vast library including top titles and blockbuster hits you want to see and want to see again. Encore On Demand movies are not duplicated on MoviePlex On Demand at any given time, so customers with both packages receive up to 250 different movies.
Starz Play - Starz Play is a subscription-based, video download application developed by Starz Entertainment for its affiliates to deliver movies and other video content over the Internet. Starz Play works on any broadband or wireless-enabled device that supports Microsoft's Windows Media platform and select devices that the second generation of Microsoft's Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers (PMCs). Movies can be played on PCs, laptops, select portable media devices, and TV (either through direct connection or Windows Media Center Extenders, such as the XBox 360).
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