Skype Founders Gunning For Netflix With Vdio

Gigaom:

Skype’s founders have apparently been quietly assembling an A-team of media and web technology experts to launch a site that seems destined to replicate the model behind their music subscription site Rdio in the video space.

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Comments

[ifyouseekay]

01:27 PM on 10/18/2011

here is a free tip to anyone wanting to be the next netflix-- better movies at a cheap price. i do not want to pay $10 per month for new releases from the mid 80's. nor do i want to pay $5 per movie at itunes or the like.

when the russian's were offering music at 25 cents per track i spent several hundred dollars collecting music. i would have never spent that much at itunes!!!

at redbox i spend $4 each time i use it!!!

cheaper stuff means that we BUY MORE!!!!

[ILoveGreatDanes]

09:22 PM on 10/18/2011

If you're spending $4 at redbox, you're either renting 4 movies at a time, or renting one movie at a time and keeping it four days, or some combination such as that. Redbox would not be a good choice for you then. I have Amazon Prime and like it. It's the same price as Netflix and currently streams 11,000 + movies and TV shows and id getting new content quite regularly. The main reson I like it is because I will not continue to do business with companies who price gouge me.

[portfolio]

12:39 PM on 10/18/2011

The only moat that NF had was the goodwill it had built up with it's customers.
Not understanding this, they have destroyed their value.
I look for someone to overtake them.

[Mister Grumpy]

12:18 PM on 10/18/2011

I dunno........ Pandora doesn't have a thing to worry about if the Skype application is anything like what they're planning........... It is utter garbage........