I have a positive question re: TLA

[jaycar]

I ave some of my videos on AEBN, AMVC and Xtube. Is TLA a seperate one or is it connected to any of those three? When I hear of a new VOD site, I email them only to discover they mention that they are the same as the ones I already have my vids on. Can anyone clarify whos who for me but in plain simple terms? :luke:

Thanks guys and girls

Cheers

[Lee]

Its a different company

Regards,

Lee

[Kushiel]

AMVC is a broker for amateur producers that is the in-between (so to speak)for those people who may not be entirely sure who to take titles to for VOD. We work hand in hand with David over at AMVC to help get the product out.. they also send the titles to Hotmovies.

X-tube is a bit of a free-for-all that people can upload nearly any movie they want (although there are size restrictions) - as well as is pornotube which is our version of it... We suggest that directors (big and small) use both resources. It gives a chance for the manufacturer to reach a large-scale audience with teaser clips of the title, or even put in promo movie of "behind the scenes" or whatnot. :shock: It's a great way to introduce a model too, if you think he has a lot of charisma.

So, depending on who you send titles to as a broker will affect who has your movies already. I would suggest getting with any of them you already have accounts for and finding out who they distribute your titles to.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

[nickbaer]

I wrote to you off-line with the answer to your question.

TLA is an awesome, very old, company that has been a primary source for GLBT cinema and fine art for going on 30 years.

Their entry into VOD is good, because they have the several decades long history with VHS and DVD (and books), so now they can help guide their HUGE mailing list of customers of GLBT fare to the world of VOD.

(Both to fine art and storytelling, as well as erotica.)

VOD has been great for smaller studios, like mine. I don't make $50,000 productions, that sell for $50 DVDs in stores. There will always be a place for the Titan's of the world, but there's also a place for small studios, and the DVD distribution model does not work for small studios.

Ont he other hand, TLA retail has their wheels stuck in the 20th century on another quirk of the old technology distribution model, that could easily leave them in the dust regarding the remaining DVD sales market.

They want to sell "replicated" DVDs (where the producer spends many thousands of dollars to have a thousand or more DVDs manufactured with full retail packaging), and then they order and carry that physical inventory, and pay for chunks of inventory they order and house and eventually sell.

The alternative to that is a model Amazon.com employs, through a distribution and fulfillment partner, that being DVD-R On Demand. With that model, the studio provides their Master (under contract), and orders are manufactured one at a time as orders need to be fulfilled, and the studio is paid its earnings regularly every month.

No upfront cost to the studio to create the inventory to be sold, no ordering and warehousing for the distributor. The end "profit" to the studio is perhaps a dollor or so less per unit sold, as the Amazon company pays itself for manufacturing the DVD, but especially for small studios that do not have the capability to predict how well a content title will do in the marketplace, paying an extra dollar on the back end is better than paying cash dollars upfront.

So enroute to the perfect world, there's one more hurdle to overcome, and that is for TLA - or maybe Wolfe Video - to get smaller studio DVD-R content in front of their huge mailing lists, before those mailing lists find that Amazon indeed has everything GLBT consumers need to buy, and a place for GLBT producers to sell.

[jaycar]

thanks guys for your replies. I appreciate it. I feel a bit more enlightned and if I have any more questions, I will certainly be asking. Im just fore warning you. :banme:

Cheers