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Re: OT:Broadband streaming video costs

I was curious whether there were any white papers or studies on the cost per user to support a streaming video website. I'm trying to get a rough estimate of how much it would cost to buy servers, license software, secure bandwidth, colocation, etc. In this case, I'm trying to get an idea of what it might cost to run a website with 5000 users receiving streaming video.

Streaming Media (www.streamingmedia.com) have a number of white papers from what I understand.

One thing that caught my eye was your number of 5000 viewers of streaming video. From what I've seen user estimations are often way, way higher than the actual viewership. If you calculate bandwidth for 5,000 users the quote may be lower (per user) than if you only get, say 1,000 or 500 viewers.



With the slow rollout of broadband and the looming proposition that users will be capped in the future, isn't CD-ROM distribution cheaper and more reliable than web distribution? You can provide broadband to anyone with a mailbox. I've always felt that CD-ROMs with the ability to connect and do small data updates via the web are a much better means of providing multimedia to users.

Well, this will depend on your project. The main problem with CDs is getting them to the audience where online they can actively go and pick up the media, if they want, of course.
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