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    Games Girls Play and Girls On Film...

    I'd just like the mention that I'd pay good money to see these movies downloadable from the site (as extra high quality DivX's), eg for a cost of $15 each or so. (I'd rather not have porn delivered to my house where others may discover it).

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    Abby posted this a while back:

    "The possibility of being able to download the entire footage of any of the feature videos we currently have in production (single gals masturbating to orgasm, girl-girl videos) via this (or any other) site is not realistic. Issues from my feasibility study include (but are not limited to) the following:

    Ease of copying; If you could download it, you can guarantee it's going to end up on usenet and other sites within a day. No fair. Sorry.

    Bandwidth; one hour of quality video (Raw DV) is 13Gb. We could compress that down to around 1Gb (DivX) but there would be a significant decrease in quality, which we worked very hard to achieve. Lotsa ppl downloading files of that size from my site would use up a heck of a lot of bandwidth. Of course, we'd factor that into the price, but it'd mean changing all sortsa things at the server end, which would result in larger ongoing expenses (which are already higher than we might like, due to hacking). What if it's not popular, and only a few people pay for it, but we're still stuck with the extra bandwidth plan, locked into a 12 month contract? We also have to upload it to the site, and uploading a 1Gb file from Australia at 15kb/second is no fun. Trust me.

    Support: We're having heaps of trouble as it is, videos in the Gold section are between 30 and 60Mb, and supporting that is time consuming enough, with people saying they cannot download them - let alone PLAY them. People's machines are not up to _downloading_ a file that large, let alone processing and playing it back. The minimum system specs for a 1Gb file would rule out a lot of people. What if they want to reinstall their OS? What if the PC is a family machine? What if they pay to download it, but they cannot view it for some reason? What do I do? refund their money, even though I have to pay for the bandwidth? Send them a VHS tape?

    Distribution: sure, SOME people will be able to download 1Gb files with no problems, and play them back, but where does that leave the other 80% of people on dialup connections, 486 computers? People with small displays, small HDD's, people don't want to spend two days downloading porn from a site? At the estimated price, to be honest it's barely worth doing it AT ALL - let alone paying for two distribution methods (VHS and download).

    Secondly, as much as I might like them to be, the majority of people who would buy a tape like this are NOT members of abbywinters.com - probably cos they don't even know the site exists (hey! Tell your friends!!). Third party distributors have a HUGE established customer base, often targeted, they do plenty of advertising, and can pretty much guarantee moving a set quantity of tapes per period. Having the files for download here would work against me.

    Billing; our current billing company, CCBill, is unable to offer any kinda pay-per-download or shopping basket facilities. We have plans to take over billing ourselves, so we CAN sell things thru the site securely, safely, reliably (pay per download special stuff, access to web-cam chats with models, live streaming video, perhaps?, cd's of HQ pics, models memorabilia, etc), but that's a complex thing to implement, and I'm a photographer, not a web programmer. Sure, we can employ people, but fact is, I gotta make an informed decision, and I am not that close to it.

    Look at the advantage of VHS tapes: cheap to duplicate, reliable, easy to use, adequate to excellent quality, huge majority of people have access to a VCR, distribution method is already in place, tried and tested, established.

    Sure, they have drawbacks (weight, bulk, customs, P&H), but when compared to the drawbacks of downloads, that pales into insignificance.

    I love the net as much as the next guy, but it ain't ready for video on demand yet. Sorry.

    Comments? Sure, I'd love to hear them. My mind is not made up, but you gotta admit, there's a lot of supporting evidence indicating that VHS tapes are the best way to go, even from a strictly financial POV. If I had it my way, they'd be free."

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