How Should On-Demand Content Work? 12
Shirlockc asks: "A recent Slashdot thread on how NBC is planning to offer on demand movies, and this NPR story on The Changing Face of Television has me asking: How will content (be it TV, movies, old, new) be distributed? I also include books -- content is content, the medium for the content changes but good content will always sell. Has anyone thought to try a pay-on-demand for content ie., subsidize the production costs by getting the audience/fans to pay for new episodes, thus skipping the broadcast networks? I know there was a campaign to raise money, in this way, to save Star Trek Enterprise, and there was an attempt to bittorrent a Star Trek Spoof recently on a pay-for-download basis. For shows with a decent cult following (eg., Firefly, Arrested Development, etc.) isn't it possible to fund the production without network participation (assuming all license agreements can be cleared?"
For On-Demand (Score:2)
Re:For On-Demand (Score:1, Funny)
I would rather push a button and have some girl named Josephine come naked and bring beer.
Possible but unlikely (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course, the whole concept may be flawed anyway. Very few people will pitch in to make anything anyway. We, the
[crickets]
Right.
Amazing (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Amazing (Score:2)
I've been drafting a business plan with couple of my friends for a ip-tv solution which would offer streamed video over internet, protected by drm, but still platform independed. We have semi-working software and delivery point at tier-1, so bandwidth isn't an issue. Only thing basically missing is the program licensing.
For the cash model, we've been thinking of off
Re:Amazing (Score:2)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Insightful)
"Commercial breaks" are one of the most execrable things about watching a movie on television; why the !@#$ are you emulating that?
During a series originally intended for TV, it doesn't matter so much, because they're structured around the need for commercials, and for films, before and after are fine -- but not during the movie.
Re:Subsidizing production costs (Score:2, Funny)
It will work... (Score:2)
It is just a mater of time and we will get video entertainment on line. Little companies like ICraveTV got legally crushed when they rebroadcast TV on the internet. Cable companies don't like it as you might drop the lucrative TV part of their service. Telco's are still crying because the lost out on being the number one in internet access. These companies are stagnent and have a vested interest in seeing video on demand over the internet fail.
But if a big player with lots of influence, cash and techni