Reeltime Rentals Inc (RLTR)

[Buddhaman]

The Moviebeam box price was a misprint - it will be $100.

Kaleidescape is just dumb :) Damn, $27,000!? AND you have to load all your dvds onto it? Oh yeah, they have the new one out.. only 10K! lol, some people..

All this activity is interesting.. consumers will have a lot to choose from, and those companies that have high value-for-money in the customer's eyes will win. It's all about getting the message right, and "better technology" won't win that war necessarily. Look at Betamax, got trumped by VHS on the marketing but it was much better quality.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Reeltime delivers a box at a pricepoint most people are willing to pay, and I imagine it'll handle all the content downloading we need... I'm not entirely sure 3rd-party boxes are the right move for the industry, but those that are wanting to take some real market share will have to be open enough to allow distributors to run their executables.

If I were in Biz Dev for RLTR, I'd be getting Powergrid running on that Xbox360 as well... captive audience, and the thing is already hooked up to yer TV. Then again, Microsoft is Microsoft and they'll want to use their own streaming technology...

PS3.. well, anyone seen that PSX that was put out in Japan? Looks like a precursor to what we can expect from them in terms of media support. A linux version of Powergrid would probably be easy to port...

Hope you're having a great weekend out there!
BM