I also wish VideoPress sign up wasn't tied to a WordPress.com account. While I understand it is integrated with WordPress.com, it should be treated more like PollDaddy as a separate business unit.

Plenty of people need video solutions for their web sites so why not have it be standalone WITH integration within WordPress.com rather than requiring a user sign up for it via a WordPress.com account upgrade?

VideoPress is perfect for businesses and plenty of them have their own sites, they aren't necessarily using WordPress.com. Now I understand they can just sign up for a WordPress.com account and then sign up for VideoPress but that seems so unnecessary when the goal is to make publishing videos easier and quicker.