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Originally Posted by PowerCum
The "HD" stays perhaps because it's larger than 320x240. True HD is 1920x1080... and trust me... it's a 9 Mbps stream minimum.
Their services cost way much than just stacking more servers to my cluster and I am completely sure they cannot push several GBps nor can scale properly when we are talking about 3 - 5 TB of content.
It's a nice service for a small program, but nothing decent to use when you are managing lots of content and need huge BW.
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Thats wrong. Huge bandwidth is EXACTLY why you would want the service. You need to research more what CDN is. If you want hit up Bryan L and he will give you the full lowdown, but not only does this service increase the speed of your content getting to your members you also save A LOT of bandwidth. So normally a customer would have to download the full file to view the end of the video. Do you realize how many customer goto the end of a video to see the cumshot? Btw in my members area Im pusing 854x480 which can be opened to full screen viewing and looks awesome. 854x480 is 480p I can push 720p and it still looks beautiful.
Forget what you know about quality vs bitrate until you encode to h264. Its a whole different scale. The vids you see on that page are only 1.5mpbs. So not only do you save bandwidth due to ability to scrub through vid without downloading full file, you also have much smaller file sizes with the h264.
And a quick deal on the cdn. It has nothing to do with clustering servers. This is about delivering the content to your customer from a location that is closer to them. Closer Datacenter means faster file speed. Again Bryan L can explain whatever you need to know about this service.
Btw I only shoot in HD so I know all about it, but you have to compromise sometimes. Call it whatever you want, but delivering your content to your customer at the HIGHEST quality possible is where it is.