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Youtube to offer feature length movies

Rappy   on 06 November 2008 - 17:35 · 11 comments & 3764 views

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In this current age of streaming video there is just about anything you can watch on the internet ranging from TV Shows on BBC iplayer to Films on Hulu but one service that seems to want to jump on that now is Youtube. Youtube is among the most visited sites daily on the the internet and major film studios are thinking of using that to their advantage by putting feature films on the site, the only downside to the whole of this bit of news is inclusion of adverts but its a small price to pay really if you can watch a full feature length movie. The form of advertising hasn't been fully confirmed yet but reports suggest that it will be down to the studios what sort of advertising they go with to help fund this service.

At the present time of writing this article Google haven't mentioned if and when this could roll out but one studio executive mentioned to CNET that it's very close to going through. "It's not imminent, But it's going to happen I would say you can expect to see it, if all goes well, sometime within the next 30 to 90 days".

One studio that is already part of the Youtube family is Lionsgate who have been offering users of the site access to short film clips of upcoming movies. Whatever happens its a sign now that Youtube is now a bit more then just an upload and watch site, its a fully fledged entertainment site.

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#1 +Bradical on 06 Nov 2008 - 17:59
Sounds great, looking forward to seeing what happens
(2 replies) #2 Thom on 06 Nov 2008 - 18:00
No surprise YouTube would soon have videos really, if it's just minor video adverts you have to watch (providing they're not regularly interrupting the movie) then that's great. Though I expect for some time this will just be limited to USA like many other sites
#2.1 +rappeh on 06 Nov 2008 - 18:02
Yeah I don't like the idea of region blocking on little clips but I suppose networks have to protect their material.
#2.2 lylesback2 on 06 Nov 2008 - 18:26
rappeh said,
Yeah I don't like the idea of region blocking on little clips but I suppose networks have to protect their material.

Most sites these days block by region... Usually the UK blocks a lot of outside traffic, and so does the US. I can't access any tv shows broadcasted online, because of region lock.
(1 reply) #3 Soldiers33 on 06 Nov 2008 - 18:38
youtube is already slow as it is, now with full movies its gonna take for ever to load videos. and no im not on crappy dial-up
#3.1 Tikitiki on 07 Nov 2008 - 01:15
Soldiers33 said,
youtube is already slow as it is, now with full movies its gonna take for ever to load videos. and no im not on crappy dial-up


Um the great thing about YouTube (and other sites) is that you don't have to wait for the entire thing to load and you don't even have to load the whole thing. Just press where you want and it'll load from there.
#4 jordanthegreat on 06 Nov 2008 - 19:04
this is going to clog up the tubes
#5 Lowdown on 06 Nov 2008 - 19:08
I wonder what quality these videos will actually be, will they be fully quality or typical youtube quality *yuck*.
#6 A.B.L.N.N. on 06 Nov 2008 - 21:39
Hey Youtube, welcome to five months ago, it's called Hulu.com
#7 Shiranui on 07 Nov 2008 - 00:24
I don't think I could bear to look at a youtube-quality video for longer than 10 minutes.
#8 Thom on 07 Nov 2008 - 01:42
I'm pretty certain they'd put this type of thing on a seperate server or do a huge upgrade at least, especially to improve quality.

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