KTL - new plan - everything free

[dylanwinter]

Bowing to the inevitable I have now made all my films available free.

It is setting the clock back because when I started this journey around the UK I put the films on my website available for free in a small window and asking people to pay for viewing in high definition.

I found that for lots of people that was absolutely fine - they had no interest in my lovely high definition full screen camerawork.

I found that each small film was being watched about 5,000 times a year and the bandwidth costs were really getting out of hand.

Technology and the way the internet is structured changes and I now have a different video streaming company that will store and hold the small films for free..... as long as they can put their adverts on them.

The bigger full HD versions of the films now sit on a different server that costs each year about the same as an expensive mooring or a cheap marina. Imagine that, paying to keep and deliver digits!

On my website all the 2009 and 2010 films - covering the Crouch to the Broads are now available in small windows (350 x 288) for the impecunious to watch. The video serving company will be inserting video adverts in the films - serving different adverts to different people.

I know what they send into the winter household - mostly stuff about cars and deodorant - but I am curious on two counts - what sort of adverts they stick in my films when being sent to other people

- and

if there are any dead links I would love to know about them

So far I have shifted two pages, the 2009 and the 2010 films, over to the new system.

That is 45 films in all covering all the east coast rivers from the Crouch on upwards.

(the 2008 films are still avialble on youtube)

The scuttlebutt will be going the same way this week (another 30 films) and then the video logs (about another 50)

Those who like to see the world other than through a tiny window can download the films in HD. They do look awfully good on a big screen.

please feel free to try the films here

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/category/2009-season/

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/category/2010-season/

watch as many as you like as I am no longer paying for the bandwidth.

This is, I believe, now plan D for KTL

- I assume that there will be a plan E,F,G and H before I finish this digital journey around the UK.

The sailing, filming and editing has been simple and fun compared to the challenges of this particular 55 year old man trying to learn how to deal with the caprice of the internet

Dylan

 

[prv]

You had me worried there for a moment Dylan - thought you were taking the high-res versions away . Glad to see I can continue to watch them as long as I continue to pay, which I'm happy to do at your current prices.

Pete

 

[dylanwinter]

Bless you

thanks for that - no plans to raise the price of the HD films - although the petrol prices for going back and forth are getting well out of hand so I now have to think carefulkly about every journey

but, I have to say, the sailing has been sublime. I feel sorry for the blokes who rush around this wonderful island in a couple of months and sweep past places like the Broads or the Butley

Dylan

 

[cimota]

How much for the movies in the higher resolution?

 

[dylanwinter]

a cup of coffee

$4.99 or about £3

no idea how I came to that figure

its been great fun though

Dylan

 

[SimbaDog]

Dylan

Is it the films in the 2 links you have posted above that have the ads?

Just had a quick look, & no adverts

 

[dylanwinter]

I guess ther is a time lag

Dylan

Is it the films in the 2 links you have posted above that have the ads?

Just had a quick look, & no adverts

well that is a good thing then

maybe it takes a bit of time before they catch up with what has been posted

I have no real idea as to how it works

D

 

[KristiferColumbus]

I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch your films in those piddling little windows Dylan so I would have thought those advertisers were onto a looser.......& if you are relying on them to attract customers likewise,a not very good business proposition......on the other hand there might be people around that are tighter than me

 

[prv]

on the other hand there might be people around that are tighter than me

I think there are. I was watching reasonably happily in small windows until Dylan took them away last time. Not going to go back though unless he puts the price up significantly.

Pete

 

[Searush]

I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch your films in those piddling little windows Dylan so I would have thought those advertisers were onto a looser.......& if you are relying on them to attract customers likewise,a not very good business proposition......on the other hand there might be people around that are tighter than me

There are those of us who live in the sticks for whom a 5 min "piddling little window" like that takes 30 mins to download & watch - and that's with full price, so called Broadband from a major supplier.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

There are those of us who live in the sticks for whom a 5 min "piddling little window" like that takes 30 mins to download & watch - and that's with full price, so called Broadband from a major supplier.

Well I'm sorry to hear that searush.My broadband enables me to watch it strait away no hesitation......& when you see all the material available on Youtube & sites like the BBC I can't sing the Internets praises high enough.
Mines virgin if that's any help.(& incidentally that's the cheapest package for those that find the unemployed watching the internet at all unpalatable)

 

[Searush]

Well I'm sorry to hear that searush.My broadband enables me to watch it strait away no hesitation......& when you see all the material available on Youtube & sites like the BBC I can't sing the Internets praises high enough.
Mines virgin if that's any help.

So's mine. But my home is 3 miles from the nearest exchange & that's only a concentrator. If you could move the exchange nearer & replace all the overhead cables with fibre-optics it would help. Probably set you back a few million squid tho.

But then I would end up living in a town I guess & I don't want that yet.

 

[prv]

Mines virgin if that's any help.

So's mine. But my home is 3 miles from the nearest exchange

Eh? Virgin's cable, isn't it? The location of the telephone exchange is surely irrelevant.

Pete

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Eh? Virgin's cable, isn't it? The location of the telephone exchange is surely irrelevant.

Pete

Mines cable which I imagine dos'nt deteriorate over long distances.....just susceptible to the number of people online.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

goodun D. like the new KTL format.
Like others I suffer from slow broadband, 1.9 at its best, then a lot worse when others 'turn their taps on' at peak times.

 

[dylanwinter]

that was my experience

I think there are. I was watching reasonably happily in small windows until Dylan took them away last time. Not going to go back though unless he puts the price up significantly.

Pete

the people who are happy with small windows were outnumbering the signer uppers by about 15 to one

I am sure that some of those became subscribers eventually - but the web hosting company were charging me for bandwidth

so the whole thing was getting out of kilter.

Now that the bandwidth for the free tiny films is covered by blip that is not a problem

as to how the economics works I have no idea

no idea how much they get for the adverts

I do know that yesterday earned myself 22 cents

pretty terrible compared to the loss of adsense revenue from the truck films... but hey ho...

form tiny acorns...

several people told me to put a donate button on - but in a month I got $3

which is not worth the humiliation of having it there

so I will kill that.


much to my surprise yesterday I got four orders for the DVD sets since making the films free.

I must say that I find the whole web experiment absolutely fascinating

it is a classic excercise in disintermediation



D

 

[Fantasie 19]

thanks for that - no plans to raise the price of the HD films - although the petrol prices for going back and forth are getting well out of hand so I now have to think carefulkly about every journey

but, I have to say, the sailing has been sublime. I feel sorry for the blokes who rush around this wonderful island in a couple of months and sweep past places like the Broads or the Butley

Dylan

What - like when you rushed past Chichester Harbour at the beginning for the series?!

Yours purely in jest.......

 

[dylanwinter]

got me

when I started I thought it would take me two years to get around the UK

did not know how much work and cash flow would interefere with the project

(I lost my lovely 20 weeks a year contract three weeks into the journey - was on the boat when the boss man phoned me to say that the next six week block of work would be the last - but I am a freelance - live by the sword die by the sword)

I now regret rushing past chichester, also should have gone up several other rivers - swept past Faversham as well

but my plan it to go right around, spend a summer in the Solent on the way back and then pick up all the bits I missed

at the beginning I was filming in std definition while learning how to use cameras on the boat - dealing with wind noise and rolling decks

so it was a learning curve

 

[colvic987]

So's mine. But my home is 3 miles from the nearest exchange & that's only a concentrator. If you could move the exchange nearer & replace all the overhead cables with fibre-optics it would help. Probably set you back a few million squid tho.

But then I would end up living in a town I guess & I don't want that yet.

3 miles isnt far for broadband, but it is getting better, they are rolling out fibre optic to the cab, (connection box in street/the green ones). so maybe you might get quicker bb sooner than you might think.


replacing the overhead cables with fibre optics might not be economic, but i am sure it will be an option for some.

 

[Colvic Watson]

Best sailing $4.99 I've spent