Best Buy today launched Best Buy Video Sharing, an online-based solution for customers to safely store and share home movies and videos via the Web.
Best Buy Video Sharing is a subscription-based service for users to upload their personal videos for sharing on web sites and blogs, with family and friends, or in e-mail messages. Unlike many other video sharing services, Best Buy Video Sharing allows the user to choose who can view their home videos, and enables the user to do so in an advertising-free environment.
Best Buy Video Sharing was created in partnership with Mydeo, a provider of quality streaming video hosting for home and business users. The service will be merchandised online and in Best Buy’s retail stores. Best Buy will also take a minority, equity stake in Mydeo.
Base plans start at $6.97 for 100 minutes of video hosting and video lengths up to 30 minutes each. Customers can chose premium plans for extended video lengths, additional video storage capacity, and other sharing features.
Originally posted on October 30, 2007 @ 11:57 am
What a ill-conceived idea.. They don’t even mask their DNS to hide the branded url.. There are hundreds of places to upload your videos for free (and keep them private from the public), why would anyone pay a monthly subscription fee when you can do it without restrictions for free?
I don’t see this new service taking off.. It’s also outside of BestBuy’s core business. Makes me wonder sometimes what these big companies are thinking sometimes…