Rofl-Mic-Lofl
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Consumers still are not warming up to the idea of paying to stream movies from Youtube. Hopefully Hulu has better results.
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Youtube Store Not Doing Well
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Shalafi
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So many companies are trying to jump onto the streaming movies bandwagon that they have to go up against Netflix and Hulu and have to offer something those 2 don't in order to attract customers, and this is where Youtube is failing
faugusztin
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I would... But somehow all this streaming stuff (Hulu etc) is USA only.
Going to say this is actually the biggest issue with their store. Just checked my youtube.com page and I can't see a link anywhere to the store on it. How exactly did they expect people to find the page in the first place?
And the quality is bad? Looks pretty good to me at 1080p although I suppose if you leave it at 360p it would look terrible.
this, never heard of them doing rentals and wouldnt even know where to look. 3.99 for blu-ray quality streaming is not bad at all, block buster is like 5 dollars for the Blu-Ray and I have to drive there.
Do they offer the movies in 1080p? I looked around the store page but didn't see it advertise HD anywhere. I watched a trailer at the store and there were only options for 360p and 480p.
Even if they do stream the movies at 1080p, it's nowhere near Blu-Ray quality. Resolution isn't everything.
AFAIK, nobody offers over-compressed 1080p streaming, much less BD quality.
With that said, there's no indication that they are offering 720p.
IMO, at .99 it's OK for some movies. But I wouldn't consider $4.00 for a movie that's not at least 720p. Truth is anything I couldn't stream anything over 720p....and even that might have issues if there's any congestion.
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DITTO^^
ScottALot
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Streaming videos over the internet was always okay, but when you factor in paying for it, it sucks.
Monkey34
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Anndd......now that I know they do this...........and seeing it's 3.99........I'd rather visit the Redbox a block away for a buck.
koolaidkitten
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This would work if they came up with a "all you can eat" type of plan.
If I could pay them say like 9.99$ a month and stream as much as I please, if they have the selection I think people will come.
If I could pay them say like 9.99$ a month and stream as much as I please, if they have the selection I think people will come.
Most movies are $1.99. Just the new releases are $3.99. And check out the trailers. The quality is just as good as DVD's 480p.
For 3.99 I can walk a few feet to the video store and rent a brand new release blu-ray for a day or a slightly older new release blu-ray for five days and still have change left over. Or I can add a few cents and rent 4 non-new release Blu-rays for five days. I'm not terribly interested in a digital rental service that offers me less for my money than what I can get locally.
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I didn't even know they had a store. Check out the movie the cove though, really good movie.
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That's me. They need to tell people that they are doing this. You can't hide it in a corner and bitch that no one is using it.
And for the cost, I'd rather go to Redbox. A lot better quality than shitty YouTube at a fraction of the price.
Their business model sucks.
Yup yup. Went to Wal-Mart today, there were at least 4 people waiting in line at the Redbox machine.
Always has and continue to be. Google needs to do something.
^ This.
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You'd think this was common knowledge... but sadly it seems not to be.
And my point is they can't. Aside from the lucky few who have FIOS connections, customers can't stream 1080p. BD is something like 30Mb/s. I'm sorry, the technology does not exist to get near BD quality with bitstreams that use 1/10-1/5 the bits.
It may happen in 5 or 10 years, but that's a long way off. The streaming video threat to physical media has been written about since before most people owned a DVD player.
8 or 9 years later and we can stream close to DVD quality.
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was this marketed at all ? first i ever heard really.
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i went to youtube, couldn't find the store. googled "youtube store", brought me to the google store, checked a link or two under and found the youtube streaming store.
even if i missed it or didn't notice it right away , it's no wonder this isn't popular or taking off.
even if i missed it or didn't notice it right away , it's no wonder this isn't popular or taking off.
I couldn't even find it. I didn't see it on the front page so I searched "store" in youtube, and theres a youtube store video link, and in the description theres a link to the store, which doesn't even work: http://www.youtube.com/store . So I still don't know how to get there.
I did find a trailer for Snakes on a TRAIN though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mR2hLbPMg&feature=related
lol
I did find a trailer for Snakes on a TRAIN though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mR2hLbPMg&feature=related
lol
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Yeah, netflix doesn't even stream blue ray quality.
RadCliffeX
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when did youtube get a store?
Monkey34
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I hope they didn't pay someone to start this up.
If I hadn't seen this thread, I never would have known it even existed. This should be plastered on every you-tube page.
Having HEARD it exists, I looked on thier site and saw zero on it, so I searched "store", and clicked in the resulting video. Dumb.
Marketing 101 FAIL.
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Looks like a "B" movie SyFy might put out......witch is why I don't watch it much anymore.
Looks like a "B" movie SyFy might put out......witch is why I don't watch it much anymore.
B movie is giving The Asylum too much credit.
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So I sit here trying to watch a MINI Challenge crash @ Ipswitch video, just a newsclip someone posted on it. its at 360p and i've been sitting here for the LAST TEN MINUTES trying to get THE FIRST TEN SECONDS of a 2 minute and 23 second video clip to load.
And then they wonder why this fails?
- no marketing/advertising
- you can't even get 360p clips under 3 minutes to fully stream in a reasonable amount of time on a 22Mbps cable connection
Any negative after the first two (and there are plenty but I'm not going to list them all) almost doesn't matter after tholse.
If you can't even do it right for free, nobody is going to PAY you to fuck up.
And then they wonder why this fails?
- no marketing/advertising
- you can't even get 360p clips under 3 minutes to fully stream in a reasonable amount of time on a 22Mbps cable connection
Any negative after the first two (and there are plenty but I'm not going to list them all) almost doesn't matter after tholse.
If you can't even do it right for free, nobody is going to PAY you to fuck up.
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i kinda stopped screwing around on youtube, because every 3 days they kept changing their format of their player, moving buttons here, there, everywhere. Pick a route and stick with it, I'm a lazy person.