Yoostar Entertainment System

by Yoostar

Product Features

• Yoostar is the revolutionary new entertainment system that lets YOO star in scenes from movies, TV shows and NBA games.
• Yoostar is simple to use. You can easily replace actors and perform their dialogue, or add yourself to a scene.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002QXL7ME
• Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 8.4 x 8 inches ; 10.2 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 21, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,765 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Yoostar Entertainment System Product Details -- Posted October 15, 2009

The Yoostar camera plugs into the USB port of your PC.

Yoostar's simple to use studio-grade web cam, wireless remote and software let you easily shoot the performance and dialogue you want to use in the Yoostar clip you're creating.

Yoostar is fun to use with friends and family and a great gift for anyone who loves movies, performing or making and sharing videos.

Yoostar: The Revolutionary New Entertainment System

Yoostar™ is the revolutionary new entertainment system that lets YOO star in scenes from movies, TV shows and NBA games -- and share those scenes with family, friends and everyone. The Yoostar Entertainment System gives you everything you need to turn your home into a movie studio -- studio-grade web cam, portable green screen and stand, wireless remote, Yoostar software for your PC (Mac version coming soon), plus 12 movie scenes and 2 bonus scenes to start.

Yoostar is simple to use. You can easily replace actors and perform their dialogue, or add yourself to a scene, speaking dialogue you create. After shooting your Yoostar clip, you can post it on your Yoostar.com page -- as private, open to friends or to the whole world. You can also place a Yoostar widget on other social networks, such as Facebook, twitter or Myspace. And you can enjoy your Yoostar clip with friends and family on your big screen TV.

Yoostar -- the next wave in social entertainment!

Shoot

Shoot yourself in Hollywood movies, TV shows and NBA games.

Yoostar's simple to use studio-grade web cam, wireless remote and software let you easily shoot the performance and dialogue you want to use in the Yoostar clip you're creating.

Star

Star with your favorite actors and NBA athletes.

After you shoot with the Yoostar portable green screen as background, Yoostar software lets you seamlessly put your performance into existing movie, TV or game footage. There's no limit to the number of new Yoostar clips you can create, as Yoostar is constantly adding movies, TV shows and sports events you can purchase and download at Yoostar.com.

Share

Share your Yoostar clips with family, friends and the world.

Family, friends or the whole world can check out your Yoostar clips on any social network, including ours:

• Post on Yoostar.com -- where you can keep your Yoostar clip private, share it with family and friends or offer it to the world
• Place your Yoostar clip widget on other social networking sites -- Facebook, Myspace, etc.
• Watch your performance with friends and family at home on your big screen TV

Here's Where YOO Star

Purchase and download a huge variety of scenes at Yoostar.com, where you'll find a bottomless well of content. There are over 1,000 films and TV shows in the Yoostar library right now from the catalogs of Lion's Gate, MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, and Sesame Workshop. Yoostar has made available the first couple of hundred clips, with new titles added weekly, and top films now in the Yoostar library include:

• 12 Angry Men
• Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Addams Family, The
• Animal House
• Back To School
• Barbershop
• Being John Malkovich
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Beverly Hills Cop 2
• Black Stallion
• Blacula
• Blues Brothers
• Cabin Fever
• Casablanca
• Chech & Chong's Next Movie
• Coming to America
• Double Indemnity
• Dracula
• Duck Soup
• Employee of the Month
• Eve's Bayou
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Forrest Gump
• Foul Play
• Frankenstein
• Friday the 13 th, Part, 1, 2, 3
• Front Page, The
• Godfather, The
• Harvey
• His Girl Friday
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Lenny
• Little Princess
• Marathon Man
• Meet John Doe
• My Man Godfrey
• Midnight Cowboy
• Night of the Living Dead
• Norbit
• Overboard
• Perils of Pauline
• Pink Panther Strikes Again, The
• Plan 9 from Outer Space
• Platoon
• Psycho
• Rear Window
• Red River
• Rocky, Rocky 2, Rocky Balboa
• Roman Holiday
• Sabrina
• Saw 1, 2, 3
• Slaughterhouse 5
• Some Like it Hot
• Spartacus
• Still Smokin'
• Sunset Blvd.
• Ten Commandments
• Terminator
• To Catch a Thief
• Trading Places
• Up in Smoke
• Valley Girl
• War of the Worlds
• Witness
• Plus Sesame Street TV, NBA games and exotic backgrounds you can perform in front of to create exciting electronic postcards.

Coming Attractions

Yoostar will continue to bring you an endless stream of new movie titles you can purchase and download at Yoostar.com. This will soon include Nickelodeon TV hits like SpongeBob SquarePants, iCarly and the Penguins of Madagascar.

The next exciting Yoostar development will be the addition of music videos from international recording artists you know and love. This will let you shoot yourself lip-synching or actually singing, and insert your performance into the music video. Or you could shoot yourself singing backup vocals or playing (for real or pretending) in the band.

Yoostar plans to expand into other areas, including more sports, and as a Yoostar user, you'll be the first to know about them.

Yoostar

Makes YOO a star.

Yoostar is fun to use with friends and family and a great gift for anyone who loves movies, performing or making and sharing videos. Yoostar is the social networking experience that's more ACTIVE, more INVOLVING, more IMMERSIVE -- and it's here NOW!

What’s in The Box:

• Studio-grade USB web cam*
• Portable and collapsible Greenscreen quodpod stand
• 6' x 6' Greenscreen
• Remote control
• Monitor clip adapter (hook your camera to your laptop)
• Universal tripod & quodpod adapter (mount your camera on your own tripod, or to the top of the supplied quadpod)
• Yoostar software
• 12 movie scenes plus
• 2 bonus scenes

*Plugs into the USB port of your PC. (Mac version coming soon.)

Yoostar

Shoot. Star. Share.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice idea but..., November 27, 2009

By 

Nomad13 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoostar Entertainment System (Video Game)

The system, such as it is, is fantastic. The idea behind it is novel and the machine itself works well. The problem is that there are basically no scenes available in the Yoostar store. It's been up for at least a couple of months, and it seems that the majority of new content being added is tourist-related junk that lets you stand in front of the Eiffel Tower or the Lincoln Memorial. You can make suggestions about which scenes you'd like to see in the store, but there is no evidence that Yoostar is actually listening. Furthermore, it would be nice if whole movies, rather than just a few select snippets, were available. Too much to ask? Perhaps, but it would make the whole thing a lot more fun.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm luvin' it!, January 4, 2010

By 

Christopher Garguilo (BROOOOKKKLLYNN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoostar Entertainment System (Video Game)

One night before Christmas, I fell asleep in front of the TV. I woke up during a commercial for YOOSTAR, thought it was very interesting, did my best to remember the website address. In the morning, I tried my best to remember the website address, but had to google what I had remembered (so what, I had some "Christmas Cheer" the night before). I'm glad I did, and I am so happy I ordered it for me, I mean my son, who wants to be a director.

I am surprised on how well it works. Yes, it takes some manuevering of the camera and the green screen, but once it is set up it's amazing how it places "yoo" right into the movie.

Now some reviewers have complained about the price. It is a bit pricey and what Yoostar should have done was to include more clips on the DVD to justify the price. You are able to buy more clips on the yoostar website and they are reasonably priced, from $1.99 to $2.99.

The only slight criticism I have is that you can't play your recorded media clips in Windows Media Player or attach the recorded media file, let's say, to your own website. You can watch your clip with the yoostar program, and you can load your clip to the Yoostar website where anyone can see it. Also, you add your clip to Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. But you can not upload your clip to Youtube. But I understand why. You are using copyrighted material and yoostar has to be in control on where the clip is dispersed.

I believe using short clips from movies for humor does not violate copyright law, but I imagine yoostar wants to play it safe.

Nonetheless, it is great fun for the entire family, works well, and [...] is adding more clips to its website. Enjoy!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, But Half Baked, February 8, 2010

By 

Confederate (Bethesda, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoostar Entertainment System (Video Game)

If you've ever had a great pie or cake that looked fabulous, but wasn't fully cooked, you'll have a good idea of what YooStar is all about. The hardware alone is impressive, and the technology is wonderful; but YooStar isn't ready for prime time. It's incredibly buggy, doesn't work with Windows Vista or many laptops and notebook computers and it crashes frequently. It's difficult to setup and it begins without so much as a "Quiet on the set! Ready...action!" It just starts whether you're ready or not. Another huge downside to this is that your output files cannot be loaded on YouTube, but must be put on a YooStar website, which also is a bit slow and buggy. If this company goes out of business, you may find this very limited. Scenes are themselves limited in scope and time and most must be purchased online, which is where they really getcha. The great thing is that this can be made to work with a little more effort. Right now it's like those early expensive projectors you used to buy that worked great, but needed a new bulb with every few hours of use. It's a project that takes time to set up and might not work once you do. If you want to try it with your kids, it might be worth it. For now, pass until YouStar gets its act together.