Advice on HD movie file size for members area. Is 1.2GB too big?
 

I'm putting together an HD paysite and some of the movies are 1.2GB. Should I offer the full length 1.2GB movie file as well as the movie split into 100mb bits?

Rest of the movies are about 400Mb which I'm offering as one full length 400Mb file and 4 100Mb bits.

I remember adding movies to my paysite in 1998 when 2MB was considered a too big :)

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks :)

well, as long as you can afford the bandwidth...

i personally don't like splitted files btw.

As long as you have both the 1,2gb and 400mb version it should be okay..
I never download those huge movies, but then again I only download movies to make galleries out of them..

You should offer both

Offer both, I hate split up movies myself. With move video download becoming mainstream like HD movies on iTunes people are getting used to large gigabyte downloads.

yeah offer both

I still don't see the attraction to HD video online. It's not THAT good to make it worth the long download.

Not to mention, to you honestly think that if you have kick ass standard video, a customer is going to pass on beating off to it because it's not wide screen format? Most people with HD sites have SHIT for encoded video yet have the huge files.

Personally, I would not wait for such a large download. That's just insane. I WANT TO BEAT OFF NOW, not in an hour. But that's just me.

this is how i do.

Full HD quality
DVD quality
2/3 of DVD quality
1/3 of Dvd quality

I thought about something like that but as this site is a dedicated HD site so I thought best to stick with just HD versions. Maybe I should offer other versions.

Post a poll in your members section, ask your customers.

Good idea but I'm putting together a new paysite so I have no members yet :)

Fuck downloads and do streaming only. We stream 720p with np and no waiting for it to load or download. Immediate jerking with no waiting, also offer 480p as well for those with slower computers.

Did you ever get that product together for that?

Have my new guy workin on it still. Will be much better than the last version of it.

Streaming is the way to go.

Correction, almost ALL websites with video SUCK in quality.....has nada to do with HD or SD....most people just cant encode video to save their lives! :2 cents:

If you try to stream HD you might as well just have SD....
Streaming HD kills the quality for 99% of your surfers, that is unless you dont mean streaming, but think that you do :)

Unless your video is 45-50 minutes long you need to re-encode it.
1.2 gigs is too big even for an HD file, unless its 8000 BR, in which case you need to re-encode anyways.