Movielink, Vongo Follow-Up
Correction: I incorrectly stated that when you download a movie on Vongo that you have 24 hours after you begin watching it until it is deleted. This is only true for Pay-Per-View downloads, it does not apply to subscription downloads which are available as long as they are “in window” and your account is active - thank you to Ryc Brownrigg, the VP-Technology of the service (see the comments of the original post).This highlights one thing that I think both of these companies do really well - managing their buzz. Within 24 hours of this blog post I received an email from Movielink’s Director of Marketing and not long after that Vongo’s VP of Technology commented on the original post.As an internet retailer I also try to actively monitor the internet for comments made about our company. I use Google Alerts and I also try to get back to people who are talking about our company, but my hats are off to both of these companies who probably deal with thousands of mentions per week. Also, the responses I received were obviously not canned - both had read my posts and made that clear with their comments.Being proactive with PR opportunities and keeping a clear line of communication with people talking about you is invaluable.
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Vongo is a joke of a platform…let me tell you why. First off, they pretend to have hundreds of movies for download. Well…great…they have a deal with two studios that they get content from for their primary Starz service and then they try to charge you for that content online. Wow…what about the other five studios out there producing films. What they don’t tell you is that almost all of the movies are dated and B grade. Second, the encoding rate for their service is so pitifully low that you cannot watch these downloaded films in a very high resolution…not even close to DVD quality. So, any large screen LCD makes the movie look like crap. Thirdly, if I wanted to copy movies for viewing on my laptop, all I have to do for freeee is copy what is on Starz already (or any other cable channel such as Discovery) with a PC video card from ATI or nVidia that has an S-video port and Mpeg codec, and then copy the file to my laptop. Free. Don’t need to pay for Vongo’s anemic content that is encoded at a ridiculously low rate. I can encode at broadcast quality. So, why pay for what I can do for free and better. Really, if I am going to pay…it should be for convenience…and variety…and quality. None of these they Vongo provides. Whatever…I guess they are trying to keep people interested…but I believe their company will not be around in 5-years. Frankly, I don’t care either. What is on the Net is far more interesting that TV now…and growing.
Comment by Steve — May 26, 2006 @ 5:26 pm
Steve, whats free when you are paying for cable television? I just found out about Vongo today and was quite excited. It’s about time there is something like this. Now all I need is to find a crack for the codec.
Comment by Movie Downloader — August 27, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
You do not need a codec. It took me 15min to break the file, but you will need fareuse4wm. Has any one connected to the SQLite DB file in Vongo\Data\vongo.dat?
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