Web quality movies versus VCD

[Riley]

May be off topic?

Interested to hear views of for and against movie downloads on the net. We are testing fully authored VCD's of our movies. If you found a member site offering to ship free VCD's that can be viewed via a DVD player so you can see them on your TV as well as on your PC's would that be more attractive than low quality 56k movies or even 500k broadband waiting to download especially with some ISP's qouta restricions. The question is would the members be prepared to wait for their movies to be delivered to them 4/7 days average ??.

If you read the forum but don't post mail me here with your views. rileyuk@telefonica.net

[JP]

Definately, providing the price is right

JP

[Riley]

DivX too restrictive at the moment but worth considering in about 12 months as the new breed of multi play units arrive such as the DK DIVX DVD Player just hitting the UK and priced at around ?80.00.

[dodger]

Ive atually been working on similar here riley,although mpeg 4 is very impressive quailty retention

ive found file sizes comparative to those of reduced quailty broadband versions, but far easier to allow users to then save and burn theyre end

[Riley]

Are you shipping or relying on download from server?? shipping to members is what we are looking at due to the fact broadband is still limited to many worldwide especially in the UK.

[videokim]

Its good idea as vcd if done right go as good as DVD,VHS

Kim

[dodger]

I have been experimenting with both riley, vcd and wmv for download and hadn tthought on vcd for sale but obv that wouldnt be a problem also
I am obv not really thinking about the modem users which is remiss off me..i know
ive managed to get 1hr vcd down to 200 mb which is in blinding quailty also but broadband files double the size remain the same at 200mb which are streamed for broadband users

the ones i have tried stream fine on braodband also which is why i am interested in this method as obv my discs are mastered and all i have to do is vdc them and upload with nothing to do other than that

my inclings still take me to mepg 4 format as ive got pal who does all this with special codecs and fromwhat ive sene file siz v's quality is blinding and this is the next way ahead i feel personally as if file is half the vcd size then bandnwdth and stuff usage will be halfed immedialty

feel free email me if i can be of any help this end

dodger

[dodger]

ive never heard of it ghost.. feel free to email me location or detaisl on it if able please

alwasy keen to see differant avenues/ideas this end thanks