Akimbo Internet TV

by GadgetManiac on August 30, 2004

Akimbo Systems Inc. will launch their new Internet Video-On-Demand service in October. Akimbo

Subscribers will be able to select programming to be downloaded via a broadband Internet connection onto the Akimbo Player’s 80-gigabyte hard drive, which Akimbo says will hold about 200 hours of video. The player costs $229.99 and requires a monthly subscription fee of $9.99.

Akimbo will provide a library of 20,000 hours of video from 50 content providers, including CinemaNow a film library said to contain over 4,000 films.

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TeamTimmy June 7, 2011 at 5:57 AM

$10 is a great price for all those films; I wish something like that were still available.

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FieldODreams December 21, 2011 at 2:55 AM

Yeah, the Akimbo Internet TV was ambitious. And it looks like 2012 may be the year that Internet TV finally hits the big time.

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