Starz Adds Three New HD Movie Nets

DirectTV is First Affiliate to Offer Five Starz HD Movie Channels

By Multichannel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 10/15/2007 6:25:00 AM

Starz Entertainment’s new HD movie channels Starz Comedy HD, Starz Edge HD and Starz Kids & Family HD launched on DirecTV. The DBS leader also added the West Coast and East Coast feeds of Starz HD to its enhanced programming package.

The Starz HD channels are available at no extra cost to DirecTV’s Starz Super Pack subscribers with the newest generation of advanced HD set-tops and HD DVRs. They run on channels numbered 518-522.

Movies currently airing exclusively in HD on the Starz services include Disney and Pixar’s Cars, Scary Movie 4, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Gridiron Gang and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

HD titles coming soon include Ghost Rider and The Pursuit of Happyness.

Starz Entertainment LLC is a unit of Starz LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to Liberty Capital Group

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