XStreamHD is one step closer to launching – and offering Full HD digital content distribution – thanks to an agreement with Lionsgate that will see around 12,000 titles available to buy or rent. Having secured satellite coverage with EchoStar late last month, XStreamHD now have the content to distribute using it.
What remains to be seen, of course, is whether the company can find sufficient subscribers given their pricing. Two packages are currently available for preorder, the XStreamHD FAST Start package ($399) with one 1TB HD Media Server, an HD Media Receiver, RF One Remote Control, and the necessary cabling, and the PRO Start package ($499) which gets an upgraded HD PRO Media Receiver. If 1TB isn’t enough, 2TB and 4TB storage configurations are also available.
On top of that there’s a monthly subscription fee and then per-title pricing for rentals or purchases. We still don’t even know when the system is due to arrive, which may be a little too much uncertainty for some.