On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's usually impossible for innovators to gain access to the content > catalog. It requires an up-front investment of at least $200'000 to go > trough the ratification process of your display technology (to ensure > everything is properly obfuscated). You then have to prove catalog > ingestion which is quite tricky as every one of the 4-5 sources uses a > completely different catalog delivery semantics. Of course you'll also have > to work out how to pay license fees for the content you'll want to display > (and usually the small players get the worst deals on that). All in all > it's very lovely indeed. > Oh and I forgot to add, you'll also need a Widevine license (whose cost is not disclosed). There are "cloud encoders" that lets you encode a video for like $2500 or so, very lovely that too. All in all a fabulous for pay "standard".
Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:30:29 UTC