Onyxmeth on 23 February 2009
| akuma587 said: I don't have much faith in VOD until I see a standalone VOD service start doing extremely well. Most analysts who have hedged their bets on VOD have been continually disappointed. Even Apple can't hang in the market. The problem is that the only services that are doing at all well are tied to the hip of another service. Examples - the 360, the PS3, Netflix. People like to have the service as an added bonus, but nobody is running out to buy the service by itself. Standalone set top boxes for video download services have sold like ET the videogame. Apple's set top boxes started getting moved from display windows to the warehouses when nobody would buy them. I'm not saying the potential isn't there, I'm just not seeing it turn into profit. And at the end of the day that is the only thing that matters in the home entertainment industry. |
Well the problem seems to be with the set top boxes themselves. Netflix's method of having it stream directly from your computer or your television(through Xbox 360) should open more people up to the idea of it.
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