Englewood, Colo. and Littleton, Colo., October 16, 2000 – Starz
Encore Group (Starz Encore) announced today that STARZ!, the company’s
flagship first-run movie channel, is the first premium television
channel to offer EchoStar Communications Corporation’s DISH Network™
satellite TV customers with movies in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
DISH Network customers with Dolby Digital 5.1-capable satellite TV
receivers who subscribe to STARZ! can recreate the same spectacular
audio environment that they enjoy in movie theatres. (See appendix
tables for receivers and Dolby Digital encoded movie programming.)
Select movies from the Starz Encore east coast feed of STARZ! (DISH
Network channel 350) are now available. Starz Encore offers
approximately 50 monthly showings of new hit movies using Dolby Digital
5.1 signals. Current blockbusters on STARZ! featuring Dolby Digital 5.1
include The Sixth Sense, For Love of the Game, and The Insider
(premiering Oct. 28).
Dolby Digital 5.1, also known simply as Dolby Digital, offers
sensational sound by delivering five discrete, full-fidelity
(3Hz-20,000Hz) audio channels (left-center-right-left surround-right
surround) plus a subwoofer channel.
"We are pleased to enhance the STARZ! channel with Dolby Digital
for our viewers who already enjoy DISH Network’s STARZ ENCORE Super
Pak," said Michael Schwimmer, vice president of Programming at
EchoStar. "DISH Network, which also provides Dolby Digital sound
for a number of pay-per-view movies, is committed to providing the best
in audio and video quality to our customers.”
“We are delighted to offer STARZ! in Dolby Digital for DISH
Network’s customers,” said Leslie Nittler, senior vice president of
New Media Sales and Affiliate Relations for Starz Encore. “Since this
is a first for DISH Network’s premium movie service, it is yet another
example of how movie lovers can look first to Starz Encore as a leader
in bringing superior technology into the home.”
Consumers with the Dolby Digital S/PDIF output option in their
satellite television receivers will know when a movie is being
transmitted in Dolby Digital on the STARZ! east coast feed by the
familiar Dolby “trailers” seen in Dolby-equipped movie theatres.
Dolby will provide the trailers to Starz Encore for airing before each
Dolby Digital transmission on STARZ!. The availability of Dolby Digital
for each title will also be noted on the rating and content screen that
is shown before each film.
Starz Encore Group is making Dolby Digital available to all digital
cable and satellite operators.
Dolby Laboratories is the developer of signal processing systems used
worldwide in applications that include motion picture sound, consumer
entertainment products and media, broadcasting, and music recording.
Based in San Francisco with European headquarters in England, the
privately held company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles,
Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo.
DISH Network is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation.
DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art direct broadcast satellite
TV system that is capable of offering over 500 channels of digital video
and CD-quality audio programming, as well as fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant
hardware and installation. DISH Network was ranked number one in overall
customer satisfaction among cable/satellite TV subscribers by J.D. Power
and Associates in 1999 and 2000. EchoStar is included in the Nasdaq-100
Index (NDX) (DISH, DISHP), which contains the largest non-financial
companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market. DISH Network currently serves over
4.3 million customers. For more information visit www.dishnetwork.com or
call 1-800-333-DISH (3474).
Starz Encore Group LLC (Starz Encore) is the largest provider of
cable and satellite-delivered premium movie channels in the United
States. Starz Encore owns 13 domestic channels and currently counts
approximately 67 million pay units. Starz Encore offers up to 12
channels of the Starz Encore Super PakSM, which comprises STARZ!Ò, the
New EncoreSM, Action, Mystery, BET Movies, Westerns, STARZ! FamilyÒ,
Love Stories, True Stories, STARZ! TheaterSM, WAM!Ò and STARZ! CinemaSM.
Additionally, Starz Encore has the only low priced movie pak for
price-sensitive consumers, the Encore Movie PakSM, featuring up to seven
theme channels. Find programming information on the Web at
www.starzencore.com. Starz Encore is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Liberty Media Group (NYSE: LMGa and LMGb).
Dolby Digital 5.1 on STARZ! (East)
Title
Date
Time (ET)
|
SIXTH
SENSE, THE
|
10/17/2000
|
10:00
PM
|
|
BRIDE
OF CHUCKY
|
10/19/2000
|
11:20
PM
|
|
VIRUS
|
10/21/2000
|
12:05
AM
|
|
MUMMY,
THE
|
10/21/2000
|
12:35
PM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
10/21/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
MUMMY,
THE
|
10/21/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
MUMMY,
THE
|
10/22/2000
|
5:20 AM
|
|
54
|
10/22/2000
|
9:35 PM
|
|
SIXTH
SENSE, THE
|
10/23/2000
|
4:30 PM
|
|
SIXTH
SENSE, THE
|
10/23/2000
|
11:45
PM
|
|
INSPECTOR
GADGET
|
10/24/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
10/25/2000
|
10:00
AM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
10/25/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
VIRUS
|
10/25/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
BRIDE
OF CHUCKY
|
10/26/2000
|
3:30 AM
|
|
BLADE
|
10/26/2000
|
11:50
PM
|
|
INSPECTOR
GADGET
|
10/28/2000
|
10:05
AM
|
|
INSPECTOR
GADGET
|
10/28/2000
|
5:05 PM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
10/28/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
BRIDE
OF CHUCKY
|
10/29/2000
|
12:45
AM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
10/29/2000
|
2:45 AM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
10/30/2000
|
8:30 AM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
10/30/2000
|
5:45 PM
|
|
MUMMY,
THE
|
10/31/2000
|
5:50 PM
|
|
BLADE
|
10/31/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
BRIDE
OF CHUCKY
|
10/31/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
PSYCHO
|
10/31/2000
|
11:35
PM
|
|
VIRUS
|
11/01/2000
|
1:20 AM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
11/01/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
11/02/2000
|
2:30 AM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/04/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/05/2000
|
3:15 AM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
11/05/2000
|
6:30 AM
|
|
BACHELOR,
THE
|
11/05/2000
|
1:45 PM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
11/05/2000
|
5:45 PM
|
|
BACHELOR,
THE
|
11/05/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
11/05/2000
|
10:00
PM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/07/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/07/2000
|
9:35 PM
|
|
DETROIT
ROCK CITY
|
11/10/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/10/2000
|
11:45
PM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/11/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/12/2000
|
3:40 AM
|
|
MYSTERY
MEN
|
11/12/2000
|
12:40
PM
|
|
MYSTERY
MEN
|
11/12/2000
|
11:45
PM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
11/14/2000
|
6:50 AM
|
|
MUSIC
OF THE HEART
|
11/14/2000
|
2:05 PM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/15/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/15/2000
|
9:35 PM
|
|
DETROIT
ROCK CITY
|
11/16/2000
|
1:50 AM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/16/2000
|
3:30 AM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
11/16/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
ROUNDERS
|
11/17/2000
|
2:30 AM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/17/2000
|
9:35 PM
|
|
SUMMER
OF SAM
|
11/18/2000
|
11:35
PM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/21/2000
|
12:15 AM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/21/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/22/2000
|
3:40 AM
|
|
SUMMER
OF SAM
|
11/22/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
SUMMER
OF SAM
|
11/23/2000
|
3:35 AM
|
|
INSIDER,
THE
|
11/25/2000
|
12:15
AM
|
|
AMERICAN
PIE
|
11/25/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
MAN
ON THE MOON
|
11/26/2000
|
4:00 AM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/26/2000
|
8:00 PM
|
|
DOGMA
|
11/26/2000
|
10:05
PM
|
|
END
OF DAYS
|
11/27/2000
|
3:30 AM
|
|
DETROIT
ROCK CITY
|
11/28/2000
|
10:00
PM
|
DISH
Network Receivers Enabled to Receive in Dolby Digital
|
DISH
Network Receiver
|
RCA
Output for Internal 2‑channel Decode
|
Built-In
Optical Output
|
Requires
External EchoStar Dolby Digital Adapter1
|
|
|
|
|
√
|
|
4700
Sat. receiver
|
|
√
|
|
|
4900
Sat. receiver
|
|
√
|
|
|
5000
Sat. receiver
|
|
|
√
|
|
5400
Sat. receiver
|
√
|
√
|
|
|
6000
Sat. receiver
|
√
|
√
|
|
|
7100
Sat. receiver
|
|
√
|
|
|
7200
Sat. receiver
|
|
√
|
|
|
JVC
HM-DSR100 D-VHS Sat. receiver
|
|
√
|
|
1. EchoStar
Dolby Digital Adapter is required to provide an optical output for an
external Dolby Digital decoder. Customers
without the necessary Dolby Digital equipment or hookup will continue to
receive the present quality audio.
