Professor Elam

Morgan Freeman at age 69 has just started Clickstar .  And you can click on the hyper link to read about it.  This is an interesting article in that it involves surveys and statistics, at what point (time, mechanical devices required) and at what price ($10,15,20) will someone download a movie?  Freeman dived in working on the fear of piracy, which indeed strikes fear into the hearts of Hollywood actors and producers. 

Read how he built a special demo house to show off the product.  Music on the internet was and is big, it is also cheap and fast.  Folks will listen to their favorite three minute song many times, but we typically watch our favorite movie far fewer times.  Will this work?  You be the judge.  But this is what business comes down to, market surveys, budget estimates, time value of cash flows versus up front costs, yep it’s that accounting thing. 

My guess is that it simply takes too long to down load a movie so this will be a much slower go than the music downloads.  But this whole technology things is all about speed.  I have a whole box of zip disks that a friend gave me-100K and 250K, handy but now we have 2 G thumb drives for about 25 bucks that can hold a movie, a 250K zip cannot do that.  Iomega the creator of the zip disk and drive was a hot property just a few years back, it just goes to show how quickly things are changing.

Will download speeds accelerate fast enough to make Clickstar a success?