STARZ App Launches Support for Android TV Devices
18 May 2016 - 2:30AM
Business Wire
“Outlander,” “The Girlfriend Experience” and
Other Hit STARZ Original Series and First-Run Movies Now Available
On Select Android TV Devices
(INTX Expo 2016) – Starz announced at INTX 2016, the
Internet & Television Expo hosted by the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the successful launch today
of its STARZ App on select Android TV devices. STARZ subscribers
may now watch exclusive STARZ Original series including
“Outlander,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the upcoming season 3
premiere of “Power” this July, as well as hundreds of movies and
first-run films on select Android TV devices.
The launch marks the most recent successful deployment for the
STARZ App that provides STARZ streaming subscriptions directly
to consumers and offers the first-ever download
capabilities from a premium pay TV streaming service. Launched last
month, the STARZ app is offered on a variety of devices such as:
Chromecast, Apple TV (4th gen and newer), iPhones and iPads running
iOS 7.0 or higher, Google Nexus Player, Sony Android TV, as well as
most Android phones, tablets and TV devices. For a complete list of
supported devices, please visit www.starz.com/settings/faq.
For $8.99 per month, fans now have the opportunity to enjoy
instant access to more than 2,400 selections each month, including
STARZ hit series ranging from “Outlander,” “Power” and the upcoming
“American Gods” and other TV content, to Hollywood hits and popular
movies including Avengers: Age of Ultron and, later this year, Star
Wars: The Force Awakens. The standalone “STARZ” service allows for
up to four users to watch simultaneously and virtually unlimited
downloads. STARZ is available through the App Store for iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV. The new STARZ app is also available
through the Google Play Store on a wide range of Android supported
devices.
STARZ subscribers from participating cable, satellite and telco
partners can also authenticate and view STARZ in the new,
easy-to-use app. Users can purchase a subscription or authenticate
STARZ directly in-app or on their PC/Mac and watch every episode of
every season of the best of STARZ’s original programming, as well
as the biggest, most extensive movie library of all the premium
subscription networks in the U.S.
As a single app destination for all subscribers who want to
stream or download STARZ premium content, the intuitive content
discovery design and navigation offers ease of use and a compelling
user experience regardless of how the consumer purchased a
subscription to STARZ. Subscribers to the STARZ sister networks,
STARZ ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX, will also use this single destination
app for access to streaming and downloadable content.
STARZ Originals in 2016 include: “Black Sails,” “Outlander,”
“The Girlfriend Experience,” “Power,” “Survivor’s Remorse,”
“Blunt Talk,” and “Ash vs Evil Dead,” and the first STARZ Original
movie, The Dresser. Exclusive hit movies on STARZ in 2016 include:
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Inside Out,
Pixels, Concussion, The Good Dinosaur, Ricki and the Flash, Paul
Blart: Mall Cop 2, Cinderella, Tomorrowland, The Wedding Ringer and
Ant-Man. Popular movie and television programming on the new STARZ
ENCORE includes: I, Robot, Fever Pitch, Never Been Kissed, 22 Jump
Street, Dances With Wolves, Gone Baby Gone, There’s Something About
Mary, Spider-Man 3, Superbad, Total Recall, Steel Magnolias,
“Magnum, P.I.,” “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Jeffersons,” and
“Gunsmoke.”
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global
media and entertainment company with operating units that provide
premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay
television networks (Starz Networks) and global content
distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com. The Starz
Networks operating unit is home to the flagship STARZ® brand with
24.0 million subscribers in the United States as of March 31, 2016,
with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 32.4 million subscribers.
Through STARZ, the company provides high quality, entertaining
premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV
channels and associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is
sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable
operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications
companies, and other online and digital platforms. Starz offers
subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes
and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including
STARZ Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and
television programming. The Starz Distribution operating unit is
home to the Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Digital, and Starz
Worldwide Distribution divisions. In addition to STARZ Original
series, Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires movies,
television and other entertainment content for worldwide home
video, digital, and television licensing and sales.
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