Digital Home Thoughts: ProShow Web Now Launched

Well, it's now official: ProShow Web has launched. I've played around with it a bit, creating a video and downloading the 1080p version of it (I got a Premium-level account to check out the whole service), and overall I'm quite impressed. They've managed to take the sometimes hard-to-understand parts of Proshow Producer and simplified it to the point where anyone can make an impressive slideshow. If you're a casual home user, the $30/year fee is definitely worth it if you're a keen photographer looking for new ways to share your photos with friends and family.

The one down side: it's only DVD (480p) resolution on the video downloads. ProShow seems to have wanted to match what Animoto offers, which I think is a shame....I think any paid service not offering 720p video at minimum is missing the mark. That's my opinion at least - what's yours? Would you pay $30/year for 480p video downloads?