Checked out Blinkbox after reading an article praising its business model. "Watch classic movies online, remix scenes and share with your friends." It didn't really live up to the hype.

For starters, the videos didn't play at all on my default browser (Firefox 2). This may be something to do with the Microsoft framework the site is built with but pretty clueless for a start-up to not support the reigning open source browser.

Secondly, the touted remix capability is simply the ability to add a text message to a pre-edited clip.

On the positive side, if you can view the video, the UI is nice and clean and its fun to be able to browse key scenes of classic movies.

However, it remains to be seen if blinkbox can convert this into anything that retains eyeballs. I should be the target audience (certainly all the films on the homepage were ones I knew well and would happily revisit/remix. But the proposition is pretty thin at present. Yet another site touting 'interactive' 'web2.0' without doing a hell of a lot.