Vongo dies, very few notice

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UnnDunn @ Aug 12th 2008 5:09PM

Vongo was a good idea, and I subscribed to it for a few months. I do believe they were the first with an all-you-can-eat digital movie subscription service, and they had a PPV option for newer movies.

Unfortunately, they had the same catalog Starz had... which was not very big at all. maybe a couple hundred movies at any one time, and movies were appearing and disappearing seemingly at random, as Starz gained and lost the rights to them.

Movies weren't in HD, but they were close to DVD quality, and were in 5.1 audio to boot. And their Windows Media Center client was quite good.

Meh, can't really blame Vongo... they gave it an honest effort. But the movie studios are really determined to cling to their outdated business models, and until they give up that thinking, we'll never get the kinds of online movie services we truly want.

Having said that, digital downloads are still the future of home entertainment... the movie studios are just going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into that future, just like the record labels were.

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