In 2020, the Texas-based Nonton Movie21 Company had just
launched its video-on-demand movie service in Austin. In other words, they were
selling movies and DVDs on demand from all over the country. The company was
founded by Steve Shaffer, one of the founders of Blu-ray. Originally the
service required subscribers to download a computer application that allowed
them to watch the movies at any time.
Subscribers have a lot of freedom to control their video-on-demand
library. This includes the ability to play, pause, rewind, and fast forward on
their videos. If the company decides to move their DVD catalog to a digital
format, they can do so with no interruptions from their subscribers.
To compliment the video-on-demand service, Nonton provides a
media player called the VIM. It is not a game changer and is not useful for
gamers, but is ideal for casual movie watching. It also functions as a cable
box.
Nonton offers two different digital Nonton Movie21 versions of the VIM. One
includes a virtual cable connection and the other does not. While the regular
version allows subscribers to add, delete, and change video titles as needed,
the non-cable version does not. This version also requires broadband internet
service to function.
The Nonton VIM is a very simple to use TV software. It allows
users to browse through the channels available to see which movies they are
interested in watching and enables them to search for videos by title or genre.
It also allows for an optional search by network information, such as a
provider's name.
The Nonton Movie21 service has won some positive acclaim. From
what I could gather, the service has a reputation for having some really good
movies and not making things too complicated. It appears to be quite intuitive.
My only real gripe is that some videos are available in
extremely poor quality. For example, there were a few movies that were filmed
in a very poor picture quality.
This means that some people may be turned off by the movie quality
of a few of the movies they have purchased on the Nonton Movie21. I suppose it
makes the service seem to be a bit of a risk, but to be fair it will probably
get much better with time.
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