Streaming Video

[Phil mCc]

Att Distributors - Producers

DVD sales have been dive bombing over the last 12-18 months and there
is less profit margin in the production and distribution of them due to
the pirates that are rife in the industry. All the biggest movie
distributors, Warner Bros, MGM, Disney etc are all going down the IPTV
route and it is expected that all movies in the future will be streamed
for a global audience on the same day with no delays to all regions.
This will undoubtedly close the black hole currently draining the DVD
industry of some $80 million a month either spent on fighting piracy or
lost revenue to piracy.
In an attempt to fight piracy Gladiator was used as a test. Eight
thousand prints of the movie were made at a cost of $40M and
distributed via Cannes etc and it was the biggest loss ever to piracy
even being pirated before it reached the first screening cinemas.

This is why IPTV is going to be the only solution to combating DVD
piracy. On a given time and date the AVI stored in a server and secured
with Digital Rights Management is transmitted globally to Cinemas, then
a few weeks later the server will be opened up to the end user in the
home to stream to either PC or set top box. This will mean the DVD
distributors of today are becoming the online streaming distributors
for the IPTV age and it's happening right now.

As an example take Harry Potter 4. People will be able to see the
making of the movie long before it even becomes a product. It will
generate revenue streams before the movie is even a production and
captivate the audience and media interest ready for the launch day.
At the time of launch a button will be pressed in a data centre storing
the master AVI file and instantaneously enable cinemas all around the
world to have a premier of the movie on the same night.
The glitz and glamour of the premiers we see today won't have to be in
one cinema in the country or region but in every cinema around the
globe capable of receiving the signal through fibre lines.

The home consumer will receive the same treat as the cinemas only a few
days or a few weeks later when a reduced stream is enabled and
controlled under DRM license as an on-demand movie. There will be no
DVD availability, no download and therefore DVD pirate copies for sale
at the car boot on a Sunday for ?5. Instead the consumer can pay ?2.50,
?4 or whatever the cost is set at to stream it over the phone line and
be allowed a set number of plays for the price.

No DVD and cheaper to watch than a PIRATE at Hi-Def quality if you like,

Its here......Consumers, Punters, friends and gentelmen get prepaired coz its coming your way,

Phil McC

[Styx]

Stopped producing DVD's and tapes about 3 years ago...all my movies are delivered via the net. It was obvious that was the way the market was moving even then. I've since spent a considerible amount of time fine tuning the encoding side of things for optimum results....my movies now rival DVD in quality terms

The other benefit is the reduced distribution cost and time taken packing and posting, clearing cheques, etc.

Currently developing a full on drm based ppv system which will launch shortly with my material, followed by the facility for other producers to co host their content with me in the future.

In addition to removing the DVD side of the industry I feel it will also reduce the market for member's sites. In some ways it will be a good thing...removing the daily/weekly treadmill of updating material..it can be added as and when. It's also advantageous to models....rather than coming up with new themes each week, they can produce material and upload when it suits them. I also think the "take up" will be greater...many people won't sign up to a site just for one movie/photoset that appeals to them, but with a PPV theatre I feel there's more chance that they'll click the button for something they really want.

Kev

[John-vid]

I dont know about you, but I dont like the idea of people logging how many times I have a wank.

I agree with the idea of streaming, direct to the client, and getting them to pay each time it is watched is a great idea, but I also wonder, faced with the option of owning "title A" on DVD, or viewing "title B" on line.

which would most people choose. and its no use saying that if everyone streamed there would be no DVD's.

there must already be millions of porn dvd's out there that i havent seen, so i would probably want to see all them before paying for a streaming service.

so as a would be producer, who is also worried about how to make the movies pay. I am watching closely

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Johnvid

[Digi-Guy]

As a consumer I'd be very interested to hear what others think about IPTV. Personally I purchase a couple of films a month on DVD as I much preffer to have the product just as and when I want so having the material goods is the thing for me. I also have a micro-dish pointing at hot bird so I'm wondering how IPTV could compete with their multi subs currently working out at 4p per film and broad cast in digital?

DG

[Matt - A-W-D]

Does the UK really have the infastructure for this yet? Broadband speeds are getting faster and cheaper - but users are now more limited than ever with how much they can download.
Almost every single ISP now caps users with entry level services having a cap of around 1GB - 5GB per month.
I would think that a full length high def movie would weigh in at at least 1 GB in size which would wipe out a users whole bandwith allowance by watching just one movie if on a 1 GB cap.
Bandwith doesn't cheap so how will the ISP's and telcos cover the costs if allowing unlimited B/W especially when broadband speeds get even higher?

[Styx]

On PPV/drm you can set up whatever "licence" you feel suitable as a producer.

For my own material the setting will be "unlimited views", so the person effectively "owns" the material, but cannot pirate it. After the initial license is purchased then they can watch it as many times as they wish. The material is stored on their own hard drive and each time it's viewed a quick check is made as to whether they have the correct license to view it...they can even write the movie to a CD or DVD and the same thing happens.

I think there's more chance of seeing more material...for example I'm in discussion with several people to place whole back catalogues of material on line...stuff that isn't economical to continue distributing as physical media.

From my own experience, the number of people prepared to download material outnumbers those who want tapes/dvd's by about 4 or 5 to one....so even old material can be re-released and given a new lease of life (and a welcome profit boost to the producer) because there's a huge untapped market that haven't bought the movie the first time around.

Kev

[Ned]

Give me a factory produced DVD over a streaming, DRM protected AVI any day.

[Digi-Guy]

(the person effectively "owns" the material, but cannot pirate it)

So to be the rain on the parade but may be time for a re think on the whole way to market your product?

DG

[Matt - A-W-D]

That crack has been available since 2001 and only works on the old and now defunct version of DRM for media player 7.

[Digi-Guy]

Thats why I posted that link and NOT the new one?
Read the ARTICLE with it and then you will understand I posted the old crack not wanting to promote the new crack but also to prove the point that all clever codes get cracked?

DG

The new 05 crack is on GOOGLE and is a free download