We haven't settled on final pricing yet, but it will be under $6 per month and there will be a discount for an annual subscription. Plus we may offer a special "early adopter" discount.

One other note - TrainMasters-TV will also include access to all the Model Trains Video library of over 15 video titles now, with more being added every few months. Also, when we shoot video for the magazine we always edit down to fit - TrainMasters-TV will have the full-length video with all the content that otherwise ended up on the cutting room floor.

Sounds very good. $6 is nothing to pay.

I was expecting the pricing band around the $14-25 a month

I was expecting the pricing band around the $14-25 a month.

For one hour of video content?  We are talking US dollars here, are we not?

I think $5 a month for one hour of video about trains (thinking 'infomercials' here) would be a lot ... but, I'm not really into videos (or TV) much anyway ....

  This looks SWEET!  I like the fact that it will feature the outstanding artists that make up this hobby alongside their artwork and give us a little more in depth look at what their work means to them.  Let me know when and where to sign up!

Toni  :D

So, how does access to 'old' content work?  If I do not subscribe to the service for a year, do I miss out on the first year's worth of monthly 1 hour videos?  Or, if after a year, I subscribe for one month, do I get access to everything that has been 'published' up to that point?  Obviously, I am not familiar with on-line video business models ....

Dave, where did you get the idea that you would be paying $6 for only 1 hour of video?

I image that with your subscription, you'll have a password that gives you access to all of the video that has been published by MRH, and by the sounds of it also access to all of the current Pay For dvd's too. I would expect this to be streaming only content, not download content. ..If your subscription expires, you will be locked out of that content.

Dave, where did you get the idea that you would be paying $6 for only 1 hour of video?

I got the idea straight from the video in the first post ... what part of "every month Train Masters TV will bring you (over) an hour of entertainment and information" did I not understand?  The 'promise' is for 61 minutes of video each month, I simply called it an hour to make it more clear (assuming had the promise been for 2+ hours per month, it would have stated it that way).  Also the video implied that it would be about the same cost as a $5 sandwich ... then Joe tossed out the $6 figure later.

Do those who eat PBJ or bare bologna sandwiches get to pay 19 cents per month?

Yup you're right Dave. Less than 5 is now 6 and 61 minutes.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, that "over an hour" could be 2 or 3 hours but at $72 per year it feels high.

People will look at this as competitive with MRV+, which I know Joe said it is not, but it will be perceived as so.

So for $72 per year, we can have MRH, the MTV video catalog and TMTV or for $68 you can have MR and MRV+

The MTV catalog is worth quite a lot on it's own. 

Don't get me wrong, I think the TMTV offering is very exciting. At $4.99, it still sounds exciting, but at $6 it's approaching the cost of netflix and surpasses the cost of a full MR subscription with V+.

My budget can't handle all of those right now.

At $4.99 I think this offering would keep me from subscribing to MRV+

We have not finalized the price yet, but keep in mind there will be a discounted annual price and for early adopters an additional early adopter discount. So you could be looking at a considerable savings off the 5.99 or so basic price being discussed.

What you get right off the bat is access to circa 40 hours of video and another 20 hours or so of new content per year. If that's 12 DVDs worth of material at $20 average per DVD ... You're getting at least $240 per year of HD content for circa $70 per year undiscounted. If you go for the annual subscription you will pay somewhat less and if you're an early adopter you will pay a lot less.