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Thursday, February 16, 2006

CinemaTech: An in-depth look at MovieBeam

CinemaTech: An in-depth look at MovieBeam

Headline says it all.

So what is it?

-a set top box
-you buy it for $200
-you pay $30 or $40 to activate it
-it holds 100 currrently popular movies
-downloads (over the air, only in certain markets) 10 new movies a week
-10% of the content will be available in HD
-$4 for current movies, $2 for older
-$1 extra for HD version

Lots of good analysis in the links and from Scott - esp. like the bit about anti-Long Tail.

-mike

Posted by: Mike Curtis / 2/16/2006 06:34:00 PM

Comments:

Something of note:

According to their site, only 6 of the approximately 100 movies currently available are offered in HD (specifically 720p).

# posted by

Eric Reid : Thu Feb 16, 10:55:00 PM CST

The paucity of HD content makes this uninteresting at this time. I've been watching HBO HD movies, and others, for a couple of months now on a 67 inch screen at home and I'm quickly getting to the point where I don't even like to watch standard DVDs.

But of course, over time this will change, and then something like this might be worthwhile.

# posted by

Charlie Jackson : Fri Feb 17, 07:02:00 PM CST

hey
i used to be a product tester for moviebeam, and the 'paucity' to which you refer is just the launch selection... as each week passes, the number will go up -- also, when more HD content is available from the wastrels in hollywood... they take their sweet time

# posted by

thamonkey : Fri Mar 10, 01:20:00 AM CST

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

CinemaTech: An in-depth look at MovieBeam