MovieBeam First Look

[dang]

Checkout our latest First Look of the MovieBeam (http://reviews.designtechnica.com/firstlook85.html)

[Ioman]

Like I said on the news post:

A couple things I do not like about this service:

- Movies cost $3.99 and only last for 24 hours
- It sounds like it automatically downloads new movies, and deletes movies already on your drive, and you cannot tell it which movies to delete.

I like that it has an HDMI connector though.

[kevinShelly]

Thanks for the insight.
I wanted to try this but can't because I don't have a land line.

I will be interested in reading your review after you have some time to use it. Like PQ and movie selection and overall usablitily.

If they fix a few things this may work, but I think the service would be more attractive coupled with a media center of some kind.

Here is why I think it will fail.
htt://hdbeat.com/2006/02/15/moviebeam-who-wants-it

[Ioman]

Great article Kevin, I agree with you 100%. I am suprised that Disney has not done a great marketing push behind it, with exception to a few sites, most people still have no idea what it is.

My opinion is to get a Media Center Extender and just stream the HD content to your home theater, or like you said, go with another VOD service.