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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior
Frankly, I'm amazed that we haven't seen a greater rush to embrace Flash technology on our sites, both on hosted promos and within the members area. The quality can be very good. I'm building a members area right now, and one of the things I'm doing is running my .wmvs through a Flash software so that I can deliver my own streaming vids for those members who don't want to download the movies. Yes, the .WMVs will be there as well. I wish we could all switch over to streaming-only rather than easily downloadable formats, but today's members think they own our content when they pay for a monthly membership - spoiled brats.
If you're building hosted galleries and free sites, I don't see why any webmaster would complain if you use embedded Flash movies. Surfers love Flash. This is the YouTube generation we're dealing with, after all. When I get around to building my own hosted tools, some distant day, all of the movies, maybe even the banners, will be Flash. I'll still offer traditional .WMV clips for affiliate (ab)use. This is assuming that I actually put an affiliate program together.
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I love flash, but...
Like you said, surfers do not like it in the members area as the only option. I know this because I promote a sponsor that had DRM movies and they never rebilled and they removed DRM and all of the sudden I started seeing consistent rebills. Like you said, both options would be great, but more time consuming to create.
And for flash vids on freesites/galleries, those offered by the sponsor would go quick, because to not only cut a clip from the members area and then have to encode it in flash is just one more time consuming step, maybe.
Actually this gives me an idea on embedding flash movies, just another thing to add to my ever expanding todo list.
