said by amungus:Is not use Silverlight.
Was forced to use that w/Netflix last night and am sorely disappointed.
So sad how "pirates" are light years ahead of the "mainstream" when it comes to this stuff. There are already established ways to do things, but big businesses seem to afraid to ride the wave.
Put everything online, in high quality, and be done with it.
Nobody should be screwing around with crappy flash like almost-video; just use a format that doesn't suck terribly. If it must be encrypted, then just freaking encrypt it and sell a copy if it's "premium" type content (PPV, movie on demand, etc.).
there not afraid there trying to figure out how they can get a cut of the pie and control it all at the same time they want you to pay to use it then charge for ads