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...doesn't own the right to digitally share movies with subscribers. And by the look of it, subscription rights aren't up for grabs. Digital-distribution rights - to subscribers, not pay-per-view customers - are in the hands of the three pay-TV movie networks: HBO, Showtime and Starz. And Starz is out to demonstrate just what can be done with those rights, by introducing a beta version of its Vongo service...
...selection consists of everything that the company has the right to share with its Starz and Encore cable channel subscribers - approximately 800 Hollywood movies, plus concerts and other interesting stuff. I was happy to find the dark stylized Sin City already in the lineup, as well as Katsuhiro Otomo's 2005 anime epic Steamboy. Other gems I picked up while browsing: Peter Sellers' The Mouse That Roared, Prince's Sign O' The Times concert and Emma, starring the lovely Gwyneth Paltrow. The diversity of titles was impressive, and the catalog is constantly refreshed and updated - each title has an expiration...
...Beethoven’s greatest moment of glory, however, was still to come with the public performance of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824. For anyone that has heard it before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
...composer died almost three years later, suffering from a bad liver and persistent stomach problems. His work continues to thrive, be it in atrocious Starz commercials, in concert halls, or from the second floor of freshman dorms in Harvard Yard...
Malone has his legacy concerns too, which are what touched off this skirmish a few weeks ago. Long regarded as the consummate cable executive, he has built Liberty Media through relentless wheeling and dealing into a virtual mutual fund of cable interests, including QVC, the Encore and Starz! movie networks, stakes in Discovery Communications, Court TV, game-show channel GSN, DMX Music, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and others. Yet Malone has been unable to add value to this portfolio; the stock has gone nowhere in years and, at around $10, represents a hefty discount to Liberty's assets. Liberty didn't respond...