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I agree with the points made at the beginning of the thread.
Ialso don't think that one model will prevail. You can have a situation where a TV channel makes its money from cheap production and ads and another from subscription and high quality original production, HBO seem to be doing alright - look at the DVD sales of "The Wire".
I have used the tubes, but I find the material all the same, often very old and poor quality.
I have also joined a couple of pay sights, one a Czech site. I pay $30 and downloaded all their films. Value for money absolutely, if fact I have all 100 of their films on my computer and 5 months on still havn't watched all of them. Are we not giving away too much for the price? I notice that clip stores can sell one film for $10. I assume a lot of the problem is caused by old material that has earned its production costs being put online for extra income.
I assume that as income falls so will new production. New productions will then start to look better and the valur rise again.
At Cinema Erotique we have found that making less but better works for us.
We spend a lot of time chosing the right girls, after all we feel who wants a 1000 girls we really want the one hot one.
The other problem we feel is with the model of rebills, after all the punter gets 95% of the value the first month then is ripped off for the rest of the time. We try and have a model where we charge a lot lot less for the rebills to reflect value for money.
Also we hope to rotate our content so that over all each member will pay the same amount for each film he has access to.
We find the real problems we have is building traffic and net presence, in an industry that is very conservative as to how content should look.
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