Originally Posted By peeaanuut It appears that Disney is set to set up with Moviebeam. Its a set top box service (like we need another one) that will allow you to "rent" videos from home. <a href="http://www.moviebeam.com/opencms/opencms/Pages/" target="_blank">http://www.moviebeam.com/openc ms/opencms/Pages/</a> Anyone gonna bite? Not sure of what movies will be available, but Im not biting. I rarely rent movies so this doesnt appeal to me.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m It's not available in my area, but it seems like a cool concept. I probably wouldn't get it anyway, as I dno't like spending a lot of money on stuff like this. I'm thinking it will be expensive because it shows a $50 mail in rebate.
Originally Posted By Kylesmom The pricing shows the device at $199 after the rebate and then the movies cost you somewhere between $2 and $4 a pop. I don't see any advantage over pay-per-view.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut only thing I see is hi-def as an advantage. But that is not on all movies. Yeah Im still not sold.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Not for me... I could do pay-per-view now, and don't. I could go to Blockbuster, and don't. I think a lotta folks just buy, especially us Disney nuts.
Originally Posted By Daannzzz The price seems high for what it is. Can you pause the movie or go back to a scene if you missed something?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut good question. I think its like the online movie rental places. You can download and store it for 30 days but once you start watching it you have like 48 or so hours to watch it before its "returened" (loses its license). Not sure though. But like others, I barely rent movies, I usually just buy. Kind of like online music, I buy instead of rent.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I was thinking about getting it, especially for the HD content (which is not available for purchase yet, and preliminary information shows that HD-DVD's or BluRay or whatever the format is will cost about $30 at retail to purchase. I think MovieBeam looks like a great alternative to Blockbuster or Netflix. As for pause/rewind/etc, it's certain to have these, as the movies are stored locally on a hard drive inside the unit.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut oooh cant say blockbuster anymore....well soon anyways. lol. It seems that apple is looking at buying blockbuster for their stores. Some weird concept about selling iPod videos and setting up kiosks that you put the pod into and get auto expiring movies. Kind of like renting them. So basiclly it will be a understaffed apple store without selling computers that you can "rent" movies from. Interesting concept, dont think this one will fly either.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I think that would be a big mistake. In fact Peanut as much of a gadget guru that you are, if YOU say boo then I know it will fail. Well it might make it if they go all out Apple and sell computers and all that jazz too, but then I dunno. Interesting this all will be.
Originally Posted By mrichmondj I think this is a great concept, but it is being launced in much too basic of a form without any real "gee whiz" features that make it a must have entertainment console. Between the cable TV box that already offers pay per view, VOD, and DVR -- adding a new set top box that is only limited to movies seems redundant. What Disney needs to do to make this an interesting system is to throw in some content for free -- ABC produced TV shows, news, older movies, animated shorts. When a system like this can start delivering desirable content for free or on an advertiser supported basis, and undercut the cable monopolies, it will be something that is worth looking at.
