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By: taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog » Downloadable movies and the DVP5960

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:17:13 +0000

[...] Mulley mentions that Moviestar.ie are planning to offer downloadable movies. Great concept, but I can guarantee the [...]

By: Paul Sweeney

Paul Sweeney — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:47:04 +0000

Both Pat and Conor beat me to the punch with regards listings of movies and reviews. Complete no-brainer. Conor could even just release a special move review widget for them and be deeply integrated. Next point: get the basics right (HT “Smoke” above). I signed up for the free intro offer about a month or so ago, and yip, got the “last movie” in the que. Need a better way to close the gap between the dvd arriving back at the warehouse and the next dvd to arrive at the customer’s house. This is a logistics gap that may be surrmounted by giving the customer some trust: why not sms MovieStar and tell them “you’ve just posted it” hey use LouderVoice SMS “MovieStar Return”: then automatically send out next in que. You can build a profile of how trustworthy their word is pretty quickly. Next, send sms to the person who is holding the DVD “too long” when it becomes obvious that this film is going to be needed by the next person: its a simple nudge, asking people to be good moviestar community members. Next, Make it Local: if I like “Wings of Desire” and similar movies, chances are, I could talk movies, and swap recommendations with this person. eh hum, we could also route movies between us a lot faster (i.e. plan the logistics of sharing). Having been local, and found local people, you can then “re-sell their attention” to movie distributors etc, by issuing “advance ticket offers” to local cinema opening nights, etc. etc. So (1) Get better quality suggestions going through recommendation, (2) Get better logistics of delivery through messaging (3) Build community (4) Get Local.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:09:04 +0000

my two cents..

Movies are a passion for people and a real conversation starter – so would feel like there are loads of opportunities here. I didn’t see much interaction on the site. I saw a 5-star rating but think you have to be a member to add a review. Pity.

I like Amazon’s listmania. Something like this could be an easy win.

Also, would be nice if they got a list of bloggers that are love movies, and gave them free dvds rentals on condition they blog reviews about the movie (not necessarily about moviestar) and get a bit of online conversation about movies in general.

By: Johnny K

Johnny K — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:46 +0000

Good stuff Conor. BTW, my nephews and I love TMNT.

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:23:36 +0000

Pat’s right, there are lots of complementary things that could happen between LouderVoice and Moviestar. What we’re just about to launch at the minute could be very interesting there. Stay tuned.

Now back to watching the DVD of TMNT that arrived from them today!

By: Conor Byrne

Conor Byrne — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:06:48 +0000

I think there are some great ideas here but I think they need to get some basics sorted first.

I had a brief relationship with moviestar and it just wasn’t working out. I decided to call it a day. When leaving I was very honest about what I felt.

To my shock, the entire process and all follow ups were completly automated!

What is that about. Not once did anyone try get in touch, and I said I’d like to hear from them, to see if we could patch things up.

Moviestar, look after your customers, those that are with you, and talk to those that leave, even if you don’t save the relationship, you might learn something and make your service better?

By: Major Alfonso

Major Alfonso — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:50:17 +0000

“it would be cool if Moviestar.ie had a kind of â€œcriticâ€™s choiceâ€ (or actorâ€™s or directorâ€™s choice for that matter) package for customers.”

Difficult to see how this would work for directors if they only stock 4 Bergman films, 2 Pasolini films, 1 Antonioni film, 2 Fellini films, 2 Fassbinder films, 4 Herzog films, and that’s just the really big name European directors of the past 50 years. One Kiarostami? No Ozu or Mizoguchi? I’m not signing up to any service like this until they’re properly stocked. What the hell happened to the Long Tail?? These services tend to be no better than xtravision or chartbusters in their selection. Bah!

“They need an extensive catalog of movies – hits and classics and the oddball stuff that never got a proper distribution and which is hard to find in the local xtravision.”

Precisely! I want to pull out anime films

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:33 +0000

so the downloads will be DRMed, and from a limited set of providers — not exactly competitive vs. torrents. Shame.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:56:30 +0000

Have to say i wasnt too hot on the availability of the choice when i signed up last year. Unless your paying top whack and getting the 3 discs at a time it just amounts to getting 2 discs a month, well it did for me anyways and sure for the price i could’ve gotten a new rental from Xtravision.

I would defo be interested in reviewing free dvd’s from moviestar.ie and would link whore them to bits

http://www.moviestar-hairyfish-but-more-moviestar.org

By: James Galvin » Blog Archive » Moviestar.ie

James Galvin » Blog Archive » Moviestar.ie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:14:02 +0000

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