Ive checked out vongo, movielink, cinemanow….Ive had netflix…but I just stumbled upon this new company Reeltime. http://www.reeltime.com They are based here out of Seattle where I live. There site is brand new and still in beta and after I spoke with someone in the company they said there most important goal right now was adding solid content.

BUT…the thing I was impressed with was there technological platform…they have their videos streaming and the picture quality is awesome. Point, Click….Action! The way it should be….not all this downloading BS. Plus you can connect your computer to your TV…wirleless if you’d like and watch the movie right on your TV.

Anyway, when these guys get some top-notch content I think I will be their first subscriber.

The #1 page you have to test when you have a web site is your support/contact page. Else, how can people tell you that your goddamn site is fucking broken?

I’m asking them to clarify their bandwidth requirements because they wrote 300KBps in their FAQ like a bunch of n00bs (kilobytes? really? you mean kilobits, right?). Here’s what I get when I send a support message:

Missing PageYou have requested a page that no longer exists on our site. Our pages change so often that you really can’t bookmark any of them for long, aside from the front page or your user index. If you’re looking for a particular picture, you might try to search for it.

Alternatively, PeekVid.com has literally hundreds of TV shows available to watch online, for free (and with a little effort, downloadable). Oddly enough, just a few months ago, the videos at PeekVid were hosted by Guba…

They got a few, but are missing out others.

The 900MB attitude is correct…i remember stealing vids from limewire; and i would let it download all night…then watch it on my computer…i just don’t really want to go back.

funny…my company sells video too; i think the difference is, we know no one really wants to see or buy the things they can get from somewhere else…easier and for better quality.

‘the revolution is not about buying/selling the same ole crap…its about making and selling it, and buying things you can’t get anywhere else; this is the internet (duh), trying to be a video store, or tv channel, or copying them is a loosing proposition…look at YouTube…totally different channel, and successful…yet, un-monitizable…cause as soon as someone smells money, someone gonna sue.

anyway…i’m goingto watch my video/dvd now.

Now that I think about it..24hrs may not be sufficient. Because there’s a good chance I’ll pause the DVD and do some other thing in the mean time… as I often do… and come back to it a day later. I know that’s not a common case, but I tend to do it all the time… must be my ADD

Really, I can go down the street and rent movies for $1 Canadian, ($1.50 for new releases), from my video shop that is 24/7 and fully automated. I can even reserve the video online. I get the movie on an actual DVD that I can watch on my TV and walking there takes less time than it would to download a movie from the internet. So, until Guba comes up with something that can beat that, (or I have a fiber-optic connection to the internet), I’ll continue taking teh 5 minute walk and enjoying the fresh air.

this is what sucks about the content business…its all LA and New York. All we get is Silcon Suits and San Francisco Hipsters.

>>Does Guba have VC money?
yes, from what i’ve heard.

They need to go back to their core competancy - usenet porn. The reason they switched to movies is because usenetbinaries.com was burying them.

I heard the only reason they got a movie contract is that the president spent 18 months partyng in LA until he got someone to sign something.

Seriously, the real story here is how Guba went from being a seedy porn site to making headlines like this.

you should know your market before you decide to lower the price of your product to see if that is the price people want to pay.

second, i know this game; …no one wants to buy videos off the internet b/c 1) you can get better service/quality from a) netflix, b) cable…and 2) watching video through your computer, or a small device sucks…only true die hard geeks do that…then they stop doing it and go back to dvd…3) DRM…WTF is this crap. No reason to ham-string you customers…

video wise…its YouTube…thats what people want…teenage girls, and they want it for free.

I know how hard this is, b/c my company is trying to start its own media revolution…create a new market; and it is tough….and if you do not understand your customer, and be extrememly realistic…you’re going to fail…froma technology perspective….our technology is one of a kind, state of the art…Gaba is the same ole 1999 crap…and can be duplicated extremely fast. Give me $1,00,000 and i’ll hire five guys and bang it out in three months.

i have no idea why VCs give most of their money to companies like this, except from my experience the CEO and the VC are friends; probably both graduated from standford.

oh yeah…and a major CEO blunder…you don’t say what he said; and then expect to have poptential investors foaming at the mouth. Everyone can read between the lines.