Vongo Superbunny |
Loading ...We cancelled our Vongo monthly service in favor of a local Hollywood Video MVP (2 movies at a time, unlimited rentals, $24.99+tax) but we keep receiving Vongo email. Like this one that arrived — Friday mailings are big with movie services — a few minutes ago:
The newest pitch shows off the Vongo Superbunny. I watched a few minutes of these short animated bunny films. They’re ok. They didn’t make me go hmm, but what did was thinking how much more viral they might be on the outside of the STARZ Vongo site (Update: Bunny Fims are available via Angry Alien Productions, thanks Wayne for the correction), drawing people into Vongo to subscribe. I wonder how much content is out there that would do better for promoting the pay services to be on the outside vs. inside.
With the many different video sites out there like YouTube and Google Video, at least shorter versions of these bunny films should be considered. I did find a CES 2006 video of Vongo which also explains why they built it completely in Flash.
Ironically to the picture shown above, Flash is a bit like kryptonite for web surfers. A little is usually ok, and welcomed, but a lot except in very specific circumstances can have them exiting in a hurry.
The BUNNY THEATER shorts have been on line for a while starting with 2004’s the Exorcist. May favorite so far has been The Shining.
They are in no way exclusive to Vongo but I know the creators have been considering a DVD release of the shorts so they probably sold the rights to Starz for a little extra money on the side.
It’s not really the type of things I can see prompting me to pay for a site though.
Comment by Wayne — June 16, 2006 @ 1:25 pm PST
Cool, I stand corrected, thanks Wayne. Link: http://www.angryalien.com/
Comment by TDavid — June 16, 2006 @ 1:27 pm PST
Just curious, Wayne, what types of things would get you to pay for a site? Exclusive content? Early access to content like what Slashdot does?
Comment by TDavid — June 16, 2006 @ 1:32 pm PST
Both of those would interest me as long as the content is something that is of interest to me (obviously, huh!)
I pay for HBO and Showtime to be able to watch some of the original programs but not so much for the movies.
I am anxiously waiting for a service like Vongo that works with my home theater set up that has a monthly fee. I already pay for some extra HD movie channels but to be able to have a rotating list of titles each month would be phenomenal.
Comment by Wayne — June 16, 2006 @ 2:13 pm PST
Speaking of movies…does anyone know if NetFlicks is any good? Does it really work, or is it too good to be true?
Comment by Zakiya — June 17, 2006 @ 3:27 am PST
Hi Zakiya - I’ve written about Netflix at length here over the last couple years. You might want to start with this post: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050530/1934/
And here’s a search for all Netflix-related posts:
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/index.phtml?s=netflix
Welcome to the site
Comment by TDavid — June 17, 2006 @ 7:35 am PST