http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/14/review-hd-downloads-via-akimbo/ Engadget HD Comments for Review: HD Downloads via Akimbo http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/14/review-hd-downloads-via-akimbo/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/14/review-hd-downloads-via-akimbo/Apr 14th 2006 1:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/14/review-hd-downloads-via-akimbo/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/14/review-hd-downloads-via-akimbo/
1. Pay to pay more. Subscription fee's for what? Almost everything worth watching has a another fee on top of it. Greedy shot sighted Ip owner doing? Probable, but it makes their service a very murky value proposition

2. Expiration. that show you just spent five bucks on? Take a look, it has an expiration window and is going to go away regardless of if you watch it. Though I'm sure they would be happy to let you pay for it it again...and again. This totally flys in the face of what DVR's are for. Lets see I can spend money on all this stuff then be out of town for to weeks and have not be there when I'm ready for it.. course I could pay to get it again...and again... Come on.

3. DRM hell. You can watch it on your MCE box or stream it to a registered extender(until some IP owner decides they should get an extra cut for streaming I would assume). But you can't move it to portable or do anything else with it like stream it via orb. You can't even redirect the content via their website or access it that way if you happen to be else where. So you are very limited for your monthly fee plus per object fee.

This is a great lesson on how IP owners can suck the value out of new service and keep them from really going anywhere (like to wide acceptance or to be being able to compete with cable/sat).
I have something like 40-50 season passes, if the content was available to match that (and it's not even close for mainstream stuff), I shutter to think what using Akimbo as a cable replacement would cost monthly.]]>Apr 14th 2006 1:58PM