Megavideo's 72 hour limit is annoying
By Aja103654
@Aja103654 (5646)
Philippines
November 20, 2011 10:39am CST
Yesterday afternoon, I began to watch a series called CASTLE which has been recommended to me by a friend. It's a series about a writer who suffered writer's block and a tough female detective. And together, they worked on solving several cases.
I was enjoying watching the third episode from season one. It was about 30 minutes completed. Then MEGAVIDEO suddenly popped up and interfered at the very moment where the detective and the writer were about to find out who the real killer was. I was soooo pissed!
Since when did 30 minutes become 72 minutes??? It was weird. Was it because I loaded the video ahead and watched it rather later? No idea how megavideo works, it's annoying. The episode was only about 40 minutes, i didn't expect megavideo to stop in the middle claiming already 72 hours of video time was used by me. What's going on?
Have you ever experienced this??
7 responses
@crocki134 (61)
• Germany
20 Nov 11
I had the same problem :( If you start loading the video and watch it later you CAN have this problem. Its very strange because sometimes you can leave it for hours and you can watch 100mins without having any problems. It seems like megavideo got a not really good working function for this and thats why I use a router-reconnect-tool. I reconnect before I start loading the video and then I can watch the whole 72mins :) And when it stops I just reconnect and load it again and jump to the point where it stops. Not the best option but a way how you can do it. Maybe you can find a similar tool for your router ;) BTW: Megavideo has a limit of 72mins and not 72hours just in case somebody wonders ;)
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@Aja103654 (5646)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
Oops, sorry about that. I meant 72 minutes, good of you to remind me of that. Thanks crocki!
Router? I don't know what that is, i think i'll go look for another website with a different videoplayer instead.
Megavideo is not reliable, you have to pay first to be happy on megavideo LOL
@rafiholmes (2896)
• Malaysia
20 Nov 11
if u are using a LAN connection..for internet..or broadband wifi.. or a dongle..
try disconnecting from ur internet connection for few seconds..then re-connect again..if u having an dynamic IP for your internet proxy server provided by your internet provider...u will be able to continue watching...megavideo..
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
21 Nov 11
But if i have right understood you are not a premium member, arent you ?
If so MEGAVIDEO have some limitations by seeing films or maybe also in upload.
@Aja103654 (5646)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I'm not a premium member, besides I'm not willing to pay for the membership. I bear with the low quality videos online because it's free, that's kind of the point why i watched online streams instead of buying the DVD. 
@jeanneyvonne (5501)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I am familiar with the series, it is one fo my favorite crime procedural. I am also familiar with your problem, since it is my problem too.
I prefer streaming video because I have limited storage space on my computer. I usually turn to megavideo since it is one of the popular streaming sites - and I always get annoyed by the waiting and the dialog box that says that my viewing time is up $(as you said, even without consuming the whole 72 minutes). After that, I am forced to scour otehr sites just to appease my hanging viewing experience. So far, I have been lucky to find otehr alternatives.
As for the otehr series that I cannot watch fully on Megavideo, I am hoping I can find it in otehr similar sites. Viewing has never been frustrating.
@marinepeter (94)
• Portugal
20 Nov 11
Dude, I used to watch video trough megavideo aswell but the 72 minute limit it's just too damn annoying, so I decided to change.
Now whenever i want to watch a movie or a tv show I download it from a torrent website (It usually takes 10-15 minutes to download a 1gb video file with a 10mb internet connection), and you can easily get the subtitles from any subtitle website.
The quality is better, you have to wait less and the subtitles are better, what are you waiting for?
@Aja103654 (5646)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I'm afraid of downloading because my computer might get virused. Besides, it also takes too much memory. Maybe someday i will do that, i got to learn how to do that first. Since our computer got virused from downloads before, i want to avoid them as much as possible.
@umabharti (3972)
• India
21 Nov 11
yes when at the starting i got internet connection my father was very interested with watching new movies or movies on line.yes it is very annoying as it gives only 72 mins for a day and other day we have to continu with the movie.And the interenet is so slow that its hard to watch a movie online.
