Okay, so I e-mailed the Moviebeam link to my wife. We have OTA HDTV. No cable. No satellite. No Netflix. No Aikimbo. No TiVo. We get DVDs from the library, not Blockbuster.
She was intrigued. The $230 cost was a barrier to her acceptance, but she liked that you pay by the movie. We don't have TiVo or Netflix because we don't like to pay per month (we've got enough monthly charged with phones and DSL, etc.).
So, Moviebeam is appealing to cheap OTA HD lovers. How big is that market?
The only saving grace is that Moviebeam is going to go the way of Aikimbo, i.e. integrate their software with MCE so you don't have to buy any additional hardware. While I don't have a MCE box, I will be building one in the future, when some of the component costs come down (when I can build a HD box in the $500 range). At that time, both Aikimbo and Moviebeam software will be on my box.
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Okay, so I e-mailed the Moviebeam link to my wife. We have OTA HDTV. No cable. No satellite. No Netflix. No Aikimbo. No TiVo. We get DVDs from the library, not Blockbuster.
She was intrigued. The $230 cost was a barrier to her acceptance, but she liked that you pay by the movie. We don't have TiVo or Netflix because we don't like to pay per month (we've got enough monthly charged with phones and DSL, etc.).
So, Moviebeam is appealing to cheap OTA HD lovers. How big is that market?
The only saving grace is that Moviebeam is going to go the way of Aikimbo, i.e. integrate their software with MCE so you don't have to buy any additional hardware. While I don't have a MCE box, I will be building one in the future, when some of the component costs come down (when I can build a HD box in the $500 range). At that time, both Aikimbo and Moviebeam software will be on my box.