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MovieBeam was a video on demand service started by The Walt Disney Company, specifically its subsidiary Buena Vista Datacasting, LLC. [1] [2] Movies were sent wirelessly into the subscriber's home by embedding digital data (datacasting) within local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) [3] stations' analog TV (NTSC) broadcast to deliver the movies to a set-top box.
In the end MovieBeam foot the bill for shipping as well.I will admit that my expectations were not very high and I am sorry to say that I am very disappointed. I was very excited when the package ...
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MovieBeam says they will have a peripheral tuner, but no word on the cost. It seems a bit short-sighted to not use the DTV spectrum for this new service; one engineer said they were 5 years too late.
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MovieBeam was shut down on December 15, 2007. [22] As of June 2008 the remnants of MovieBeam, including its trademarks and other intellectual properties, were sold to an outside investors group for approximately $2 million (~$2.78 million in 2023) as part of the company's restructuring. All in-store kiosks for the service were then removed as well.
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