MissEve, surfers, both dialup and broadband surfers, prefer downloadables over streaming movies. MPEG is number 1 preferred format by far, WindowsMedia format also popular.
The problem with downloadable clips you alluded to - the smart ones will suck them all down the minute they get into your members area. So it can be expensive to give them the big downloadable MPEG clips. Nobody wants to watch a dialup stream of any kind, i have no idea why the plugin providers even offer it, i think it just frustrates and disappoints people.
Something I think movie heavy sites might think about doing is using software to monitor how much members are downloading, set a daily limit, set it liberally enough that you aren't going to piss off most of your members but at a level that will catch the download pigs. I know some sites are doing this. You can also have the software make it so that you can set how many different downloads they can do at a time.
Downloadable movies are what they want.
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