Tag archive: MovieBeam

Remember the video-on-demand service MovieBeam that offered set-top boxes that tickle-downloaded movies to your living room using a niche in public broadcasting airwaves? While the service would only have offered a comparatively small, slowly-rotating series of movies, the service was launched with development from Disney, Cisco, and Intel, ran less than $10 a month, and for a time was a much-watched technology. Well, in early 2007… Read More

Video rental chain Movie Gallery, which is, under the Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery brands is the number-two video rental company in the United States after you-know-who, has announced that it has acquired MovieBeam, a company which offered set-top boxes which downloads video-on-demand titles over the air using public airwaves. MovieBeam certainly has a strong pedigree: the company was spawned by Disney and had the backing of Intel,… Read More

RadioShack Corporation announced today that it has begun offering MovieBeam's set-top boxes at 1,700 retail locations in 331 mjor metropolitan areas where MovieBeam service is available. At first glance, MovieBeam—backed by Disney, Cisco, Intel, and others—seems like a lot of other set-top box services offering on-demand, rental access to movies. And, indeed, the MovieLink boxes store up to 100 movies, and offer instant… Read More

MovieBeam, a venture formerly funded by just The Walt Disney Company, but now with backing as well from Intel, Cisco and several venture capital firms, is a new set top box ready to join the array of boxes already cluttering home entertainment systems across America. This latest unit though provides some of the most interesting promise: wirelessly downloaded movies from virtually every major Hollywood studio, including 20th Century Fox,… Read More

Last year, the Disney-founded MovieBeam digital movie rental service looked dead before ever having hit the market. Disney took a $24 million write-down on the effort, and rumor was to expect a whole lot of nothing from the effort. But last month, Disney, Intel, Cisco, and VC firms injected over $48 million into the operation, and, suddenly, MovieBeam is ready to go: MovieBeam announced today that it plans to begin offering first-run films… Read More

Preface:First, I would like to say that portions of this article originated from a compilation of findings all over the internet. The mod, bench marking, and pictures were done or performed by the authors.My purpose here was to bring them all together into one definitive article. This article is aimed at those who want to squeeze every ounce of performance out of their components that were purchasedon a budget, and don't mind taking the… Read More