| If I were CEO of Moviebeam -- How I would fix it! I am an early adopter of Moviebeam, and have enjoyed watching movies on it from time to time. If I were running the company, I would do the follwing to make it work:
1. Change the requirement for a phone line connection for billing. This was the most annoying, and not everyone has a phone jack close to their TV set. It only worked with land lines, and was not compatible with Vonage and other phone services, which limited their customer base. Why not have a smart card or account number that could be reloaded on the net?
2. Charge a monthly minimum subscription such as Netflix and other competitors, and either credit it toward movie rentals, or allow unlimited rentals. There were several months I did not watch a movie, and paid absolutely nothing. I wondered who thought up such a dumb business model?
3. Allow longer than 24 hours to watch a movie -- perhaps 36 hours, so you could finish watching a movie at the same time the next day you started watching it. If I started a movie at 8 pm one night, the window to complete watching it was over at 7.59 pm the next day.
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kcblackPremium
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| They phone line thing was stupid. It had an ethernet port on the back...why not use it. Even Direct TV figured that one out for their VOD.
That was one of the other things that killed it for me.
Here's a pic with the back panel connections.
Kevin
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kcblackPremium
join:2000-09-11
Chicago, IL | reply to An early adopter
Still haven't got a call telling me that they are closing down. I called CS and they said they've been getting lots of calls but haven't heard anything.
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