Best Buy launched a new video service today for some reason. Instead of even looking around at what the other folks in the business are doing (you know, making it free), they are charging for access to it.
Base plans start at $6.97 for 100 minutes of video hosting and video lengths of 30 minutes a piece. If you are so inclined, you can choose premium plans for extended video lengths, additional capacity, and extra sharing features.
The service is powered by a startup called Mydeo, who according to their PR blurb, “provides high-quality streaming video hosting for individuals, communities, and businesses.” The service doesn’t bring much to the table, requires that you upload in WMV format, and doesn’t have much of a community for displaying the videos. In fact, the service looks like little more than a glorified web hosting account, marketed towards those who want to put videos up on a website.
Other than what Best Buy is paying them to front their company, one has to wonder how much business Mydeo actually doing in the age of YouTube. I find it hard to believe that anyone will pay for video hosting these days, but MLM-style video hosting companies like Hello World are alive and well from their business model of preying on the grossly uninformed of the general public, too.
User comment: By: FakeMAWTF
User comment: By: me1. BB are such idiots! They should actually follow the slogan of "look what the future as in store" from the Canadian company they bought (Futureshop) and come out of their cave. 2. Mark (the author of this post), you need to go back to school. Did you even pass grade school? Find the mistake in this... "...video hosting and video lenghts of 30 minutes a piece"
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: KatrinaActually, we Moms (I run a national network of neighborhood based Mom's clubs) really like services like this which actually operate from an informed insight about parents... I get that this kind of service might not appeal to people who think nothing of spreading photos or videos of themsleves onto what are basically public sites, but for the 80 million households out there with young children, we LOVE these kinds of services. Go Best Buy (I'll at least give this a free trial).
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