Most film festivals are launching grounds for budding directors, actors, etc. hoping to get their films released into broader markets. By running a film festival on the web, the films definitely may receive greater exposure.
However, while it's pretty exciting to see the emergence of a film "festival" on the web, there are definitly shortcomings to the format. While the web format does provide a much broader audience, the film festival is a highly targeted audience. The web is an elective media, while the film festival is not. As distribution companies, producers, etc. evaluate films at the high profile film festivals, these films stand a much greater chance of seeing a larger market.
While the web format is ideal for mass exposure, don't count on having your short film picked up for distribution...
Now, lets see Sun preload their boxes with Redhat. I'll bet standard configs with Apache, optimized for use as a web server, would sell well.
While this does steal some of the thunder from Solaris, providing options to users will ultimately be a Good Thing for Sun customers. It works for Intel...
It's not so much the signal itself (which is public domain, being an electromagnetic wave), but it's the content of the signal. (Insert your favorite network here) spent millions to produce a show. They have the right to decide how and where it is used, and they have the rights to profits made directly by the show.
Network affiliates purchase/share the rights to the national content. They have the right to broadcast the content. If iCrave were to work out some sort of affiliate contract with the major networks, they could probably broadcast whatever they wanted...
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Most film festivals are launching grounds for budding directors, actors, etc. hoping to get their films released into broader markets. By running a film festival on the web, the films definitely may receive greater exposure.
However, while it's pretty exciting to see the emergence of a film "festival" on the web, there are definitly shortcomings to the format. While the web format does provide a much broader audience, the film festival is a highly targeted audience. The web is an elective media, while the film festival is not. As distribution companies, producers, etc. evaluate films at the high profile film festivals, these films stand a much greater chance of seeing a larger market.
While the web format is ideal for mass exposure, don't count on having your short film picked up for distribution...
Now, lets see Sun preload their boxes with Redhat. I'll bet standard configs with Apache, optimized for use as a web server, would sell well.
While this does steal some of the thunder from Solaris, providing options to users will ultimately be a Good Thing for Sun customers. It works for Intel...
It's not so much the signal itself (which is public domain, being an electromagnetic wave), but it's the content of the signal. (Insert your favorite network here) spent millions to produce a show. They have the right to decide how and where it is used, and they have the rights to profits made directly by the show.
Network affiliates purchase/share the rights to the national content. They have the right to broadcast the content. If iCrave were to work out some sort of affiliate contract with the major networks, they could probably broadcast whatever they wanted...