Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Ron Watson
Be careful about thinking like this. I understand that nothing is free, but it is a lot closer to $25/day once the equipment is paid for than it is the huge distribution budgets of, say, Sony, or 20th Century Fox. Personally, I would like to see the $25/ day touted more, as that makes it t

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Meiser
> > On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: > > Who says everything should be free (as in beer)? Nobody! We're just saying there's an importance in understanding the real costs in not misrepresenting the real costs. It's important for the people who follow us in this space to un

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Who says everything should be free (as in beer)? If you want to do something, sometimes that requires an investment of time/money. Especially if you believe that the thing you're starting will actually make money one day and you will be able to recoup your initial investment. -josh On 1/3/06, Mi

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Meiser
Yeah, I forgot about those too... -hosting/bandwidth -equitment -space -time costs It all ads up to not cheap... but we're leveragers... we all make things work buy leveraging tools we already have for things we need... i.e. Amanda's getting some good exposure... as is Andrew... and I'm sur

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Ron Watson
The point of the whole thing was that it was a noble cause when it was being developed, a noble cause led by people just like you, hell maybe even by you. It was going to be the information superhighway then. Then the market took over. There were benefits of the market taking over, for sure, but

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 12/24/05, Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been posting video online since 1998, you know back in the days of the Information Superhighway, and back then, in Dallas, a T1 line was $800.  Enter eBusiness and what happened? Bandwidth tripled in a year. Just like that, I was priced o

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-24 Thread Ron Watson
(from a link from the link below) http://www.ipdemocracy.com/Therefore, if a content or application provider wants higher-speed, higher quality delivery to the customer, some kind of access payment would apply. What’s interesting is not this issue — it’s been widely reported — but a statement by