EzyDownload not so easy after all
Australian IT has just reported that EzyDVD’s download service - EzyDownload has been put on hold until some time in 2009. They couldn’t raise the money to get it up and running. I guess the economic climate is one reason, but .. ahh .. EzyDVD aren’t exactly showing their skills in tech deployments. Their website still looks a generation or two behind the times and they’re out asking for money to plow into a tech-heavy failed venture? Now, Jim Zavos might have got some infrastructure at fire-sale prices, but unless they can bolt a lot of it together themselves, consultants fees to do the job for them is going to blow the budget. Let alone movie licencing and the cold hard reality that people really don’t want to watch movies on their computer.
It’s going to take deep pockets to keep a VOD venture afloat here in Australia. Telstra has them and so has Apple, but that’s the company you’re going to have to keep. There’s still activity happening in the US with Blockbuster having just released their set top box, but that’s the States and I peg us about 3 years behind in adoption of those sorts of models. Interesting times!