Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

From my travels to Europe and from various readings and discussions, the European market is more cell-oriented.

Over there, cybercafes are on every corner, over here, you see Starbucks. We have lots of options for broadboad right down to 56K modems and using AOL.

Porn is better suited on the laptop/TV than it is on the cell phone.

I know alot of companies are pushing for cell phone distribution for porn, but there are many technical hurdles that most don't realize.

You can get streaming TV on mobile (ie. sprint and verizon) and can watch streaming video via web browser on a phone, but the problem is that each cell tower you connect only has a limited number of channels (ie. 12). This means one person is connected at a time per channel. if you have many people in the same cell serving range, then you won't get the throughput or maybe even not being able to connect.

Cell towers all vary on how many channels they have available. The more that people buy the service, the more most won't be able to get in.

It works contrary to the "health club model".. people will use the capabilities, thus grossly overselling (like the dialup internet companies).

For the European market, if i had my crystal ball, I would say its a regression.. the DVD. Consumers could watch trailers on their phone or at a cybernet cafe and order the product.

If companies had European distribution, then could ship for a lot cheaper and faster.

I had this technology created a few years for burning CD's, but the idea can apply to DVDs.

Have a person who lives in each major city have a hard drive loaded up with DVD content. When an order comes in, they burn the order to DVD and mail it. Its shipped locally. The "burner" gets a fee, part of the s/h.

So websites that have great content, can package up on DVD, and use a global distribution method as described, to truly reach a larger audience. There are many internet/web companies who are producing DVD's as evident by the awards they are winning at AVN (ie. Lightspeed). So the crossing over is very interesting... the internet/web folks i think would have an upperhand because of internet advertising to drive DVD sales, where the video side is stuck with traditional offline distribution.

Fight the think globally, act globally!