Tycon Insights

The folks at  MGM, Paramount and Lionsgate studios have a new project coming up that will create a new TV channel for watching your favorite movies. The site called Epix will have hundreds of full length movies to watch. This is cool, kinda like Hulu.  The Epix television channel will start showing recent  movies that on average are over two years old. Watch the movies with no interruption. I mean there will be no commercials. The Epix Project will include hundreds of movies that are stored in the vaults of the movie studios. The limitation is that from the libraries of the three movie studios. As long as the movie is available for airing on the TV channel, it will be available to stream online. And since most movies have a lifespan of about 2 years on TV, it adds up to a lot of movies. BTW, Epix is going to be Free. Epix TV is trying to become part of your cable and satellite provider’s standard TV package. This is even better than I could have hoped.

Epix(part deux)  Enter EpixHD.

The EpixHD will have the 720p @ 3 MB HD quality and their movie selection will be again from their vaults. If the movies are 2 years old and available on Epix TV you can stream them on EpixHD. Cool.  The EpixHD is intergrating social features where four peeps can watch a Private Screening of a movie at the same time, and discuss via some sort of real time chat, maybe intergrate Twitter. We can only hope. New name could be Social TV or Social Movie theatre.  Anyway this is coming to what I predicted a few years back.  All TV’s will go away in a few years and your computer will be the device you use to watch TV on.  It will happen.