Verizon and Warner Music Group team up on wireless music video downloads
posted Feb 1st 2005 8:05AM
It's great that Verizon is teaming up with Warner Music Group to offer music video downloads for their new V CAST high-speed wireless video-on-demand service, since music videos seem like just the right kind of short, disposable content (along with news clips, sports highlights, etc.) that the average person might be convinced to watch on a cellphone, but do they really expect anyone to pay four bucks for a three minute video download? And that's on top of the $15 a month you already have to throw down for the service, too. If anything the price should be a buck or two, especially considering that most people will only watch a video a handful of times and can download the track for a $0.99. This better be another one of those instances where the price starts out really ridiculous and then drops down to sort-of-reasonable six months later.
Good luck. Even though T-Mobile and others have reduced there Data Plan prices, Verizon is still way WAY up there for slow assed 1xRTT.
"This better be another one of those instances where the price starts out really ridiculous and then drops down to sort-of-reasonable six months later."
HA, me dont think you know vzw very well young grass hopper
Well I think that its lame that you have to pay for what is essentially a commercial. Music videos no matter how much they try to hide the truth are commercials to promote there projects.
I have seen some full motion video on cell phones and there is much to be desired. Most of it is choppy and the small screen makes it hard to see.
15 dollar a month service? plus video prices? Wouldn't it be just cheaper to buy your favorite singer's cd/dvd hybrid album that contains not only the music but there videos?
Its interesting that manufacturers haven't just embedded a TV tuner into mobile phones so you can just pick of broadcast from the airwaves for free. I suppose carriers would be oppose to this since it takes away their opportunity to pipe more traffic through their networks. Given the price points, doesn't seem like there would be much takers for this service initially.