| Technology Review: Motionbox |
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| Written by Patrick Nordquist |
| Friday, 16 July 2010 00:00 |
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This week on the REVP blog we have a Technology Review on www.MotionBox.com. MotionBox is a video hosting service where you can upload and share your videos. It is mainly aimed at personal family videos; but it works equally well for Real Estate videos. What makes MotionBox stand apart from other video hosting services like YouTube is that it is not a public video sharing network. Your account is much more private being available only to other MotionBox members, people you've shared your videos with and those who view your embedded player on the web. So you will not have to compete with the silly videos.  The video playback on MotionBox is way above the typical quality you see with other video hosting sites. The player is a great size and if you know how you can resize it even larger without much lose in quality. Because of this higher quality free accounts are only limited to a 300 MB limit and 100 MB upload limit. That's a lot of space considering Real Estate video files are not very large. If you need unlimited space and restrictions, you can always upgrade to a Premium account, which is only $29.99 a year. This is very reasonable, especially when you consider that you get HD quality playback with the Premium upgrade. Which is very good if you have HD footage to upload. The quality then is unsurpassed and crystal clear. It's very impressive for property tours and video blogs. Uploading and downloading is swift and rarely interrupts the flow of the player. You can full screen the video if desired, but with any full screen, there is slight loss of quality. MotionBox is free of advertising, except for the services they have affiliated with. These services are accessed as separate gifts you can purchase and they all relate to your videos. You can purchase a DVD of your video collection, there's a VHS-to-DVD/online service and flip books created from stills of your movies. You can purchase these if you wish, but they are not essential to your account. Their customer service is excellent as they offer many resources, FAQs, tutorials and blogs on how to make the most of their service. Any inquiries sent to their customer service are answered thoroughly and promptly.  Screen shot of the MotionBox information page There are many other options as well available with your MotionBox account, free or premium. Most of these you will probably never use, such as the filmstrip video viewer, the Playlist and a few others that are not even worth mentioning. For a full run down on MotionBox and their terms of service you can visit their information page here at www.motionbox.com/welcome/how_it_works/basics. So what's the final verdict?
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