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A few days ago I went searching for a site to watch a movie online that I didn’t have in my collection. It didn’t take me more than a few minutes to find a link to the full move hosted by megavideo. Satisfied that I could then watch this hour and a half video online I proceeded to watch. Heck, I didn’t even mind the advertising on the site because it didn’t intrude on the move I was watching. Oh yeah, if you’re curious, the movie was “Phantasm” from 1978.

The dealbreaker came approximately just short of halfway through. The movie stopped and a popover appeared informing me that I had watched 72 minutes of video (i hadn’t, I was only about 45 minutes or so into it.) and that I would have to wait 52 minutes to see the rest of it OR I could click the handy dandy link they provided and pay for a subscription to their site and get right back to the movie.

The problem I’ve got with this is that the site did not have any notification that you can only watch 72 minutes before it cuts you off (or I’d have gone someplace else right away.). If there was any such notification, it wasn’t placed where a person like myself just arriving who only wanted to watch a movie would see it.

This kind of marketing is crap. If you’re going to charge a fee, say so up front. Don’t just let somebody get started and then cut ‘em off in the middle and present your sales pitch. Frankly, if I wanted to pay for something like that then I’d get this Watch Tv Online package instead. Honestly, it’s a MUCH better deal with a boatload more content and they don’t play this crap that megavideo did.

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