Toshiba To Offer Vongo Trial On Notebooks

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Starz Entertainment's online video streaming service, Vongo, will be available as standard equipment on some new Toshiba computers.

Toshiba has agreed to offer buyers of its Satellite and Qosmio notebook computers a 30-day free trial of Vongo's 2,500 video titles (movies, anime, sports, concerts).

Users will have to register with Starz to access the free trial, then pay $9.99 a month for the service if they want to keep it after the trial period.

Available titles include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Da Vinci Code, Disney and Pixar’s Cars, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and The Illusionist.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.