[1 STUNNA Posted Jan 9th 2008 1:49AM]

Has anyone thought of it's weakness? Via satellite! Being in florida and not being able to watch a movie cause of inclement weather is not cool. Isn't that when you watch a movie cause it's raining. I'm not excited about this, well actually I'm not excited about downloading my movies period. rather just pop a movie in the PS3 and watch it. How many people watch movies at their house on their pc instead of in their living room? Not many, why would you? So streaming to all these places in the house isn't that big of a deal since you usually watch your movies in one place. Plus the fact that it's an HD movie makes it even slimmer of a chance since you have to have a PC capable of doing this. I bet DRM (HDCP) is required, how many PCs are HDCP compatible, not many. I can see watching movies on your laptop on the road but this device doesn't help you with that. So I predict failure for this device, especially with HD VOD out there who's gonna want to install an (another) ugly satellite on their house just to watch movies? Count me out.

[TroubleDouble (Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2008 4:37PM]

I have heard that their algorithm works in such a way that weather conditions will not matter.... the box is smart enough to get the content in worst weather conditions. They say that the movie is already sitting on your set top before you buy them, so once u buy u just watch it. It all depends on what movies you like and what is the probabilty of you watching the next movie...

I guess its more like Amazon Unbox - the player decides after a particular time of download that whether it is safe to let teh user watch the movie and then continues to download in teh background.

In florida think of it this way. Everyone can expect the weather conditions fr next 24 hours. Depending on that you can be downloading movies... and watching it simultaneously... How cool is that