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Originally Posted by travis
There's no reason to use download formats ancillary to FLV. With Flash video being pretty damn amazing in quality-capability coupled with the fact it is officially the world's most pervasive software platform (99.0% install rate of Internet-enabled desktops in mature markets).
More info on the ubiquity of Flash:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player...netration.html |
Well WMV's have downloadable DRM and MP4's are higher quality and work with ipods/psps/etc. We're all about the FLVs at Gunz and have been for years. We were probably the first to offer flash movie banners back before FLV's and you had to use a swf. It's more a question of what webmasters want to promote us with as opposed to penetration statistics. When you have thousands of affiliates some of them are going to have the ways they like doing things and MPEGs have lasted far longer than they've had any right to on the webmaster side of the equation. Most actual paysites dropped them long ago because of bandwidth and quality issues. Surely the day is close at hand, if not a distant memory where a 1-2 minute FLV/WMV/MP4 is preferable by all to 3 x 15 second MPEGs?
I'm just trying to guage the general consensus before we start talking to individual affiliates.