Quote:
Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Yes that is awesome! Personally when I see all these companies in the mainstream such as offering either only streaming media and able to deliver high quality full screen video I sit wondering why we cant? Vongo for instance allows movies to be downloaded, but they expire after your membership expires. They use a proprietary system yes, but I think on many fronts that is probably better.
Part of the big problem is that adult was an innovator. Our industry was the first that really delivered video to the masses. Now the crux of the issue is this. We didnt have the technology when adult started to limit members to any time frame on what they downloaded. So they became conditioned to a months membership as if they were purchasing whatever content they could download, rather than renting the content. So they were conditioned to expect that. Well with HD video we kind of have an opportunity to reverse that trend.
Yes customer this is what you will get now MUCH higher quality video, but you don't get to keep it. The whole model is skewed because of this, and its frustrating that we are also part of it due to there not really being any options out there to change the model. The content theft issue should be what motivates people to initate the change that has been needed for years, but that we didnt have the technology quite yet to accomplish at last try with the failed drm model. Its 2008 time to start showing mainstream who is the leader again.  |
Damn.. Spot on. I am sort of the "new technology" Guy over here and we are talking to some companies about partnering up that re doing amazingly cool stuff to mesh high quality Media Delivery into DRM and pay by the drink transaction models which I think are the future for the adult online industry. The greatest challenge for me as it has been with CDN in the last year is just educating the industry on these technologies and how they can be valuable and creating methods by which they can transition to them without it becoming a huge undertaking which they absolutely do not have time for. Also there are so many different variations on the theme for how different programs deliver content and as you point out the ideology of the model they have committed to (monthly subscription all you can download.) In the next few months all the major Streaming providers CC/L3 included will be moving to Flash 3 and h.264 HD support. It will take a while for the adoption of this to kick in but once it does , and with the additional Flash DRM component I feel this will be the way most of the big players will be delivering their content. It could take a year to transition, but before that happens we hope to have some very cool tools in place to make it as painless and affordable a process as possible.