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  • MotionBox Sold to Snapfish

    I’ve been a MotionBox Premium user for almost 2 years now, and this evening I received an email saying they sold themselves to Snapfish.  Lucky for us, we get to use Snapfish free for a year!  If only you could hear my voice, there’s plenty of sarcasm in it.

    Offering Snapfish for a year is a joke.  Why?  Because it in no way compares to what I’ve come to expect from MotionBox.  I quickly created a Snapfish account to try it out, but found:

    • No HD playback
    • No video embedding in other sites like this blog.
    • 500 MB video file limit
    • 10-minute video limit

    Anyone have any suggestions for a replacement?  My wishlist (all things I had with MotionBox) is:

    • Unlimited number of videos and storage
    • No video size limit
    • No video length limit
    • HD playback
    • SD quality fallback for those viewers not on a fast connection
    • Embeddable videos
    • Automatic transcoding between formats – including iPhone compatible.
    • Privacy and sharing features (easy to view by intended recipients)

    R.I.P. MotionBox, I think you’ve left plenty of disappointed customers behind.