YouTube Negotiating to Stream Rental Movies
YouTube Negotiating to Stream Rental Movies
Posted 09/03/2009 at 9:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's too early to tell if a deal is in the making, but YouTube is at least talking to several major movie studios about the possibility of streaming feature films as rentals, CNet reports.
Studios said to be discussing licensing agreements with YouTube include Sony, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Warner Brothers. But at least one studio exec who claims to be familiar with the talks said no deals are imminent and that having these discussions isn't out of the ordinary.
"Why wouldn't the studios talk to YouTube," the exec said.
Why wouldn't they, indeed. With over 100 million viewers, streaming rentals has the potential to be a win-win proposition for both the Google-owned site and the movie studios. It would also be cause for concern for other streaming services, like Hulu.com and Crackle.com.
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Jox
September 04, 2009 at 8:01pm
Bandwidth issues are only the tip of the iceburg. Monthly download caps will prevent this from being a viable service. American's have it easy with their 250GB/month caps... here in Ontario, my cap is 60GB/month.
-Jox
I Jedi
September 03, 2009 at 12:15pm
@ MeTo
No, my friend, we still beat the Swiss: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/Images/commentarynews/broadbandspeedchart.jpg
DBsantos77
September 03, 2009 at 9:14am
This will be great as long as the infrastructure can keep up with the demand, I don't know how many times I've tried watching HD on youtube just to keep getting the Buffering crap when I have a steady 6 Mbit connection. Granted it is a small price to pay for the HD, but it's kind of annoying -_-
MeTo
September 03, 2009 at 9:57am
Try DSL if you think you have it bad. I think all this streaming stuff will fail the connection system in USA is the worst.
DBsantos77
September 03, 2009 at 1:31pm
Actually I am on DSL, but I'm lucky enough to have great lines and live pretty close to the CO.
MeTo
September 04, 2009 at 6:34am
My problem with my DSL (AT&T) is it drops out momentarily and if i am in the middle of a movie i loose the stream i have to start all over. Until they find a better delivery system i am out.
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