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A good friend of mine in LA started a video dating service. You'd go in to their offices and record a video of yourself. Then members paid to go in on a time basis and they could browse through the video's to find their match. This was before the Net came along by the way.
The business eventually failed because of the logistics of the time involved in videotaping people who would get nervous and keep flubbing it and asking the techs to start over and also the time involved in browsing videos. You just couldn't look at enough videos to make it time effective.
Think how long it takes just to browse pictures of singles on any of the major dating sites. Now imagine doing the same thing but you're sitting there watching videos.
99% of the people are total duds.
We're going to test a new system this year to address the main two problems with online dating. Everyone we've bounced the concept off of as said "wow, that's a great idea." We're still refining it and you'll hear more on it in another couple months.
So I don't see this Comcast thing as an immediate threat at all. Competition is always healthy as long as you have the resources to outdo the competition by innovating a step ahead of their innnovations.
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