Quote Originally Posted by basschick View Post
mickey, first off DRM means 10% less customers at the gate because no mac users can watch DRM videos. then you'll probably lose at least another 2% of other users who can't use DRM - and that reminds me, can the most common programs that play WMV in linux watch videos using DRM?
With WMV DRM this is true, BUT NOT WITH FLASHER. I am a mac only person, I would never use any DRM that would not allow Mac user to watch...hence the FLASHER based DRM solution. So, DRM does not mean 10% less viewers...(if you go with FLASHER versus wmvDRM)

Quote Originally Posted by basschick View Post
of course, a microniche site will fare a little better than a standard site on this. if you have the only site in a niche or one of the very few, you'll always do better because there's nowhere else members can go. but even so you'll lose around 12% off the top with people who can't watch the videos at all, and i'd be interested to see stats on these sites with and without DRM.
Well, from what I can tell, the site in question is a MicroNiche site, so DRM might still be the best solution for him. ;o) Plus, I would imagine that they would not even be asking this question if there was not a problem with retention? Maybe I am wrong.