Starz has announced that it will not renew its contract with Netflix to provide content from its Starz and Encore brands. Netflix shares were down 10% on news of the cancellation.

Starz Entertainment said that it has ended contract renewal negotiations with Netflix and when their current contract is up in February of 2012, it will cease to distribute its content on the Netflix platfrom.

Starz says that it is doing this to ‘protect the premium nature’ of its brand by preserving the pricing and packaging of its content. In other words, Starz wanted more money and didn’t want to devalue its brand in the eyes of other potential straming services like Hulu.

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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/09/01/netflix-just-lost-a-ton-of-content-as-starz-ends-contract

Does anyone else have a lingering hatred for the letter 'p' now?

If anything, this will promote piracy.

Sounds like the Cable companies offered them more money to drop Netflix to me.

Damn I was already feeling like I needed more content on Netflix. This is not good news but I just hate cable so much and all the commercials that come with it. It would take quite a lot to make me ever go back.

I think this was due to RedBox more than anything.

I'm okay with these being gone. None of the Starz stuff is in HD and most is pan and scan low res. If I see the Starz logo on something I want to watch, I usually skip it.

No party viewing for Starz movies as well.

most of the starz content was stuff I never watched anyway.