Does anyone know which Netflix and Hulu CDNs are used to host their content and what they pay for traffic / streaming costs?
(that is, how can they offer unlimited streaming about $ 10 a month when considering all the costs of streaming traffic that I think they should pay?)
Is it also possible to configure Silverlight Smooth Streaming through Amazon CloudFront?
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We want to offer our customers the opportunity to sell their feature films in Silverlight Smooth Streaming HD 720p format.
One full-length movie with a speed of 3 Mbps can be about 1.8 GB, and our customers want to sell rental, for example. $ 5 for 48 hours of access.
The largest CDNs are price quotes in the price range of $ 0.50 (or more) per GB.
This means that the cost of traffic for streaming a movie only once can be about 20% of the cost of the movie, and additional views of the same user will result in the cost of traffic consuming almost the entire (or even more) cost of the movie very quickly making the business model virtually worthless.
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Kurt
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