Hello, Scott,
They use a local streaming server with VoD that you can setup by yourself for under $5,000 - all hardware and software included - to be used by 200 simultaneous viewers with a 300 GB hard disk - enough to store about 500 movies with about 500MB for each movie.
On the Internet, you can watch several thousand Asian movies and TV Shows - On-Demand, starting/pause at any place, backward, fastwarding, restart, ... - for about 50 cents each movie with quality comparable to cable and air broadcasting TV programs (streaming at about 500 kbps using Real, or MS Mdedia).
Try this two websites:
asiamoviechannel.com
chinaportal.com
Both are located in the Silicon Valley and provide English titles. There are hundreds IPTV stations in China, other Asian countries, and Europe, too.
For American movies, you can try
starz.com
movielink.com
They charge $1.99 - $4.95 per movie, perhaps you can only download the movie, but not watch it on-the-fly.
Comcast and other MSOs also offer VoD, but with very limited selections. |
