Vongo is it any good?

[hpkeeper]

I just bought a new HP Pavillion dv9000 and it came with this program Vongo. Basically for those of you who don't know what it is... is that it's an online movie rental business. They give you the software and you stream any movie you want to your computer. No returns, none of that crap...

I was wondering if anyone had tried it out... if they had any success with it... it's got a free month trial... but I didn't know if I was going to be spending most of that month downloading the movie as opposed to watching it.


Let me know

~ThE KeEp~

 

[Laughingman12]

Holy *****! you bought the HP Pavillion dv9000? I bought that too. I will now sucessfully add you to my friend list.

And no Vongo sucks

 

[hpkeeper]

Really? why? what sucks about it?

 

[Laughingman12]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper
Really? why? what sucks about it?

Because using netflix is better

 

[hpkeeper]

okay... again.. what sucks about Vongo?

 

[Laughingman12]

http://reviews.cnet.com/Starz_Vongo/486...iteID=7&messageID=2313923&cval=2313923

 

[hpkeeper]

I only see one review... have you personally used it?

 

[gorcorps]

There's more than one:
http://reviews.cnet.com/Starz_Vongo/4852-9239_7-31952123.html?tag=uoavrg

 

[mad0maxx]

Reason why Vongo suck is because they do not have a big enough movie selection then compared to Netflix...

Vongo 1,000+ titles vs Netflix 60,000+ titles.

 

[randym431]

Vongo's not bad. And you cant compare to netflix, they are not comparable. Netflix you get so many at a time for the fee. Vongo you can dl as many as you can per month. No turnaround time. Vongo's selections are getting better, lots of music concerts now. I use a dual monitor video card with the second card out to the rgb in of my plasma 50" tv. And a sound cable too. The quality is satellite SD tv. Better than cable, not as good as dvd, but it looks good. For $10 a month, it gives you a lot to select and watch. I find it very useful, especially when you want to watch something, so search vongo and see what there. You can start watching while the movie is downloading. Seems to take about 20-30 min for a full movie to dl via highspeed. Then its on your hard drive, so no streaming problems or freezes while watching. I think $10 is a bargain for this service with unlimited downloads a month. But its not netflix, not meant to be.

 

[Queasy]

I tried the Vongo service and as others mentioned, selection is what kills it. Mostly older or non-hit titles. The recent hit releases are all PPV.

I didn't have any problems with download speed (Took 45 minutes to an hour and a half depending on the length of the movie) or the quality of the video (was streaming it to a Xbox 360).

One thing that confused me was that I downloaded and watched Sin City to check the quality (which was fine) but the order in Sin City was all jumbled up. Didn't match the order of how the stories was shown in the theatrical or DVD version.

 

[mb]

I was about to sign up until I read this thread. I peaked at their new movies for this week. Kazaam? Seriously? Why would they even bother adding such crap?

The idea sounds great, but the selection seems rather cruddy.

 

[Jaxidian]

I looked into them once but the selection was horrible. It's like finding a BlockBuster store that allowed infinite rentals for $10/month but they only have one shelf of movies that you don't want to watch.

Great deal, though, if you like the movies that they have!