WarChild

Hypothetically speaking, if I had the contacts and access to a new(ish) movie streaming technology already being used for mainstream (legal movie and tv show distribution) with the following properties:

Positives:

1) Videos stream in very high DVD quality. Even at 1920x1200 Resolution, there's no pixilation. It's like watching a DVD, more or less.

2) Stream compression is such that a DVD quality movie is about as large as the equivlent sized MPEG file at 480x360 resolution.

3) Stream begins almost intantly and will NEVER need to buffer so long as the user is on .5mb cable or DSL connection.

4) Steam is indexed can be skipped ahead or rewinded just as easily as a local MPEG file.

5) To date, encryption has never been broken. No methods are currently available to capture or save the streaming movie digitally. Analog recording through a seperate device may be possible, I'm not entirely sure on that point.

Potential Negatives:

1) User must download a small, light weight video player. Very stable, very simple to use.

I haven't been REALLY persuing it because the draw back of users requiring to download the player. However, as tubes, torrents and other pirating methods gain more and more popularity, maybe now the need for solid protection out weighs the negative of the required player download.

My question, then, is this: Is there any interest in this sort of technology? It would most likely be a leased solution where site(s) would pay a fee, based on their size (user base) for continuing use of the technology. This fee would be reasonable and scaled based on the size and need of each customer.

Thoughts?

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