www.vongo.com - unlimited movie downloads for $10/mo

[Jaxidian]

This looks like it has some huge potential. Anybody know much about this?

Oops, thought I put this in Hot Deals but I guess we can discuss it here too...

 

[JEDI]

oh i would definitely sign up!

 

[pontifex]

is it going to have new and good movies and lots of movies or just old crappy movies or very limited selection?

plus you have to download them. which means waiting a long time, even on a decent dsl or cable connection.

 

[Anubis]

it doesnt work with Opera
fvck them

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/vongo.JPG

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Anubis
it doesnt work with Opera
fvck them

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/vongo.JPG

lmao :laugh:

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Anubis
it doesnt work with Opera
fvck them

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/vongo.JPG

ROFL! "You need a better browser!"

Owned!

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: Anubis
it doesnt work with Opera
fvck them

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/vongo.JPG

Gold.

 

[Dissipate]

Their top movie downloads are Herbie, The Incredbles, National Treasure, Hostage and Hitch? Wow, sounds like a great selection...

NOT.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Also doesnt work at all with linux

http://tinypic.com/jl3sja.png

 

[imported_LoKe]

Doesn't work outside the us either.

 

[Anubis]

depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

 

[Kelvrick]

No stone tablet movies for you!

What'll be the quality on these? Video wise, but also audio wise. Does it have 5.1? I want 5.1 when I watch some of these movies.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Anubis
depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

not with fios or 8meg down comcast

 

[kyzen]

Can I burn them to DVD?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Anubis
depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

not with fios or 8meg down comcast

i have 8 meg comcast and even then if they are a gig or so in size unless it pulling full pipe its gonna be annoying to have to wait for, with 15 or 30 meg FIOS yea thats a bit different

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Anubis
depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

not with fios or 8meg down comcast

i have 8 meg comcast and even then if they are a gig or so in size unless it pulling full pipe its gonna be annoying to have to wait for, with 15 or 30 meg FIOS yea thats a bit different

well i'd imagine it'd utilize your entire bandwidth, and you'd be able to stream nearly instantly

 

[conehead433]

Anyone know what format the movies are in? And are they compressed or reduced quality.

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Anubis
depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

not with fios or 8meg down comcast

i have 8 meg comcast and even then if they are a gig or so in size unless it pulling full pipe its gonna be annoying to have to wait for, with 15 or 30 meg FIOS yea thats a bit different

heh, so for DVDs you wait 1-3 days but now that you only have to wait a couple hours you guys are still complaining? jeesh!

btw, it sounds like you can basically stream the videos if you want and save that stream inside this custom app so you really don't have to wait the entire time, you can start watching once it starts downloading for a while if you have a good enough connection.

 

[jammur21]

Doesn't work with Macs/Safari either

For teh haters, Mac support coming soon (really!)

 

[sswingle]

LOL @ telling Linux people they need a PC.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Anubis
depending on the size of these things, having them mailed to yuu is still prob easier

not with fios or 8meg down comcast

i have 8 meg comcast and even then if they are a gig or so in size unless it pulling full pipe its gonna be annoying to have to wait for, with 15 or 30 meg FIOS yea thats a bit different

A DVD (we'll round it to 5GBs) would be ~ 5,000,000 KBs. Pulling at even 400kBs, it would take 12,500 seconds, or 208 1/3 minutes, or 3.472 hours.

I'd say that's a little bit more conveinient than NetFlix. Just setup the movies to download every night and it's pretty easy.

If they're Divx compressed, than it would take less than a third of the time.

 

[conehead433]

If I'm paying for them I want to be able to burn them to disc and not have to store them on my computer. According to their website you can play them as often as you like as long as Vongo has the rights to the movie.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: conehead433
If I'm paying for them I want to be able to burn them to disc and not have to store them on my computer. According to their website you can play them as often as you like as long as Vongo has the rights to the movie.

You're paying $10 / month not per movie. You have no rights to burn them, just like you don't have the right to copy an HBO program because you pay $2 / month or whatever for HBO.

 

[Vette73]

Yep looks liek a stream or at least a very high compression mode. That and you can;t burn them. If you want to watch them on a TV you have to be able to hook your computer to it.

 

[Jaxidian]

Still seems like an interesting idea. I'm probably going to download/install their software so I can browse through their library to see what they really have. If they're bragging about those top 5 movies, then they aren't going to survive.