RE: FLASH: Flash & Broadband

[Bryan Rieger]

CJ,


Last I heard broadband adoption in North America was less than 5% - and 70%

of people who did not have broadband had no intention of ever getting it.

While I highly doubt things will remain this way for long, I wouldn't make

the assumption that this audience exists today for current revenue models.

These figures are from about 3 months back. I'd be interested to see the

same stats early next year...


Also, in regards to file size - you can make your files as big as you want.

Just remember that you have to pay for the bandwidth to serve your content

to end users. When content files are 1 or 2 megs this is no big deal, and

most hosting packages will cover this kind of usage (unless you are really

attracting users) - otherwise serving very large files (10 MB+) without a

distribution channel (Akamai, Digital Island, etc.) will become very, very

costly. (thousands/tens of thousands per month...)


For now, unless there is a really good reason for the increased file size,

or unless it's a 'proof of concept' piece for investors I really wouldn't

try to distribute flash files over 5 meg...(even that in my opinion might be

pushing it....) I've always been of the opinion that 'swf' stood for 'small

web file' and have always tried to keep them under a meg. However, with

broadband's arrival this will change and many individuals will then take

flash content on the web to a new level. At that point I think we're going

to see some real innovation begin to happen as the revenue models fall

further into place.


Cheers,


Bryan


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Subject: FLASH: Flash & Broadband



While broadband is making it's way all over the country,

anyone have any idea what the numbers are in terms of % of

who has this? (cable modem, DSL, etc.).


Also, because it's not 100% available, is there a recommendation

for how large a Flash movie should be? Say no more than 75 Megs? Or 10 Megs?


Thanks everyone.


CJ



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