Starz and Sony debut VONGO
New on-demand video service VONGO is set to shake things up in the rental biz. The service, ($9.99/month subscription model) is rumored to include over 1,000 movie and TV titles for instantaneous download, plus a $3.99 PPV service. What’s more, the service will debut new releases at the same time they are released on DVD.
If this is indeed true, Netflix and Blockbuster may be in for some serious competition. Even with a small library, new releases on demand (no waiting for shipping) is mighty tempting. Funny how ‘Flix was talking about something very similar not too long ago. This may force their hands a little and move us toward an on demand model.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Why pay for what you can do for free. You can freely copy alllll the movies on Vongo through the Starz movie channel…and you can also copy movies from your cable service using your computer video card…legally and free. Then you can copy that content to your PSP or notebook or even iPod. Which Vongo does not allow. Vongo is a service that offers mostly older movies on a subscription basis and at low quality resolution (not good for bigger screens) and without any real portability. Only two studios provide most of the content and then passe movies. It is so riddled with holes you gotta wonder why they even launched the service. Except to use their Starz content and try to trick people into believing it is a full online video service. To me…just a bunch of marketing hype trying to get unsuspecting consumers to pay for what they do not truly understand…and dangling a few newer titles to make it appear like a real video service. Stay with Netflix and BitTorrent…