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Vongo to Canada: get lost (updated)

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

Vongo, the newly-announced downloadable video service from Starz Entertainment (a unit of John Malone’s Liberty Media), sounds like a pretty cool idea — it would let you download Hollywood movies, concerts, TV shows and other content to various devices, includin ... Continue reading »

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  • Starz Entertainment Group

    3 years ago

    We want to let you know that it is not that we are ignoring our Canadian neighbors, it’s that our studio agreements for the movie rights limit us to the US only. But thank you for pointing that out in our FAQ area, we will amend it so that this is explained more clearly.
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  • Stuart MacDonald

    3 years ago

    "GEOGRAPHIC FAILURE"

    I LOVE IT! What a perfect, succint, profoundly American "Up Yours". And what a great example of why US businesses operating internationally via remote control from the States tend to fail so dismally. Travelocity is still on my Christmas card list for that one...

    I totally get the clearances or licensing issue (which this must be), but MAN. And Maffei should know better too, to boot. Tsk tsk.

    But good on Liberty's PR department / agency for tracking this and posting. Now, just get the copy fixed, kids. Pronto. Serves you right for writing a spec that left the developers to come up with something themselves :-)

    Thanks for sharing, Mathew!

    - Stuart
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  • Mathew

    3 years ago

    Thanks for responding so quickly, Alesya. I understand the licensing
    problem, and I know there's probably not a lot that Starz can do about it
    -- I guess it was the "geographic failure" part that really got to
    me... we Canadians are sensitive :-)

    And Stuart, I guess it's one thumb up and one thumb down for Starz -- a
    thumb down for being U.S.-centric, but a thumb up for responding so
    quickly to a little blogger like me.
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  • Stuart MacDonald

    3 years ago

    Looks like they've killed the offending page, too. When you enter Vongo.com, it seems they've redirected inbound Canadian IPs to the Starz homepage. I can't seem to go any further, but still better and done quickly, too. Nice work, Alesya...if you were in my PR department you'd be getting an "atta boy" for sure.

    - Stuart
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  • Michael

    3 years ago

    The offending page was NOT killed. I just saw it too, and googled. And found you.

    What an incredibly AMERICAN thing to do. No wonder everyone, and I mean everyone worldwide, hates them.
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  • Mike

    2 years ago

    Heyas

    After viewing a commercial about this service, I though, yeah baby!
    If I had a library of unlimited content at my disposal, I’d never leave the house again ;-)
    So with that thought in mind, I tap out Vongo’s site, and to my amazement, they give me the geographic heave ho. Sheash guys have a heart, eh!

    But seriously I’m getting used to this, if you go to showtime’s web site for new show info, you get the same treatment. Fortunately, you can use an anonymous surf client to get past their Canuck scanner, and all their info is at your fingertips :-)
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  • rick davison

    2 years ago

    I agree,that there are a great many laws on broadcasting,yet the chinese on the other side of the world are providing what the US waves under our noses,but plays keep away,they drag us to war,involve us in their world police contravercies yet were not good enough to share,their intertainment. To add insult to injury they tell us how ill placed we and the rest of the world are ill placed geographicaly,thanks US,but last time I checked we belonged to north-america just like you,stop using us as a side kick..I'm insulted but not surprised. God bless Canada.(the real home of the free.)
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