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How is this legal?

Rather, how can 43p be enough for a movie rental when big-brand streaming/download online rental places are more like £3-£4 for a rental?
 
Like Spotify they will be relying upon advertising revenue and premium subscription (AKA Freemium) to make up the shortfall in costs with the free users.

Unlike Spotify they'll have huge bandwidth costs so I remain skeptical that this will stay around for long unless they get a lot of premium subscribers.
 
Windle said:
Like Spotify they will be relying upon advertising revenue and premium subscription (AKA Freemium) to make up the shortfall in costs with the free users.

Unlike Spotify they'll have huge bandwidth costs so I remain skeptical that this will stay around for long unless they get a lot of premium subscribers.
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From a brief glance at it, I think they're using P2P for distribution, which would move most of the bandwidth costs to the ISPs.
 
Angilion said:
From a brief glance at it, I think they're using P2P for distribution, which would move most of the bandwidth costs to the ISPs.
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Hmm can't find anything which says definitely either way. Distributed resource could be P2P or a Server network.

"Voddler´s streaming technology is based on an efficient distributed resource where encrypted “movie slices” are balanced and distributed as close to the user as possible, this enables effective delivery when the user presses play. The balancing solution is the core of our technology and vital to maintain the streaming rate and hence the quality of playback. In connection with the immense stress on the network related to last week´s launch, the balance handling couldn´t cope and exceptional pressure was put on our backup servers. The result was malfunctions and buffering, especially noticed when playing less balanced movies and for users with low bandwidth."
 
I'm not sure either, but a beta reviewer said that Voddler used 13GB on their hard drive and, as Ross1234 pointed out, that would be in keeping with P2P. I don't see what else would require 13GB on the user's PC. The required software from Voddler could easily be a P2P program as well as a player.
 
Ah well - that was a bit of a waste of time!

My 8Mb Sky connection isn't quick enough for the streaming so it just sits "buffering" the whole time. This is really designed for the 100/10 broadband in Sweden.
 
moid said:
Ah well - that was a bit of a waste of time!

My 8Mb Sky connection isn't quick enough for the streaming so it just sits "buffering" the whole time. This is really designed for the 100/10 broadband in Sweden.
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So it doesn't even cache the video? It's just purely streamed?

Forget that then. Most I can get is 2MB. :|
 
Ziggy said:
So it doesn't even cache the video? It's just purely streamed?

Forget that then. Most I can get is 2MB. :|
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Not sure exactly what it was doing with my 13gb of space but for me it just sat saying "buffering" all the time.

Might have another look when the beta testing is out of the way and they release a proper version.
 
moid said:
Ah well - that was a bit of a waste of time!

My 8Mb Sky connection isn't quick enough for the streaming so it just sits "buffering" the whole time. This is really designed for the 100/10 broadband in Sweden.
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Hopefully my 15mb might fare slightly better!
 
Also got an invite, works fine on my Be connection but I'm a stone's throw from the exchange so sync at 23.5/1.

Selection of free movies is pretty bad and I can't see myself paying in SEK for others. The interface is woeful. It's seemingly designed for a set top box and not a PC, as far as I can tell.

Watched a bit of Chopper and it had swedish subtitles, with no easy way to turn them off - aside from positioning them outside the viewable area on the screen. On the upside, quality was good.
 
Got my invite today also, tried the service and its ok, but I don't think il be using it.
I can get just as good quality movies with a great choice else where. I dont like the adverts are all in swedish (havent checked the settings yet to see if i can change that)

I don't like the selection of free movies either.
I'm on 8mb and it streamed fine.
 
Also got the invite. Only watched 15minutes but that streamed fine on 3.5mb after it buffered for a minute at the very start.

Brilliant prices, any idea when this will be released, as thats when the video library will explode with more choice.


ChroniC said:
I dont like the adverts are all in swedish (havent checked the settings yet to see if i can change that)
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It's beta

ChroniC said:
I don't like the selection of free movies either.
I'm on 8mb and it streamed fine.
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It's beta
 
Streamed decent enough on my 5mb O2 LLU line. Subs are annoying, but i just lowered them as the other poster said.

Some okay movies in the free section, but £2 odd for the premium movies doesn't seem worth it really.
 
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