As a small "micro niche" producer I could not surrive if it were not for my VOD sales.

We have never had a real DVD distributor because many distributors think that our product would not sell in retail stores. We were forced to make our own DVD's, package them ourselves, handle all the mail orders, collections, etc. etc. It was a pain in the ass.

VOD has allowed us a way to deliver our product (and we use DRM) that has been HIGHLY sucessfull for us.

I am with Lee, I think VOD and DVD Downloads will help the small guy like us, not hurt us.

We have no idea how to do traffic, and we dont even show up in the major search engines...but we are an example of "If you build it, they will cum."