No doubt, some avid viewers will be willing to pay to get high quality of service but still, more viewers will still rely on free service.  They rather want free service than a paid one.

The $49 is for a year of episodes. I would imagine this would be 4-5X as much runtime in terms of content than a standard DVD. $49 a year is basically $4 a month. That seems _very_ reasonable.

Yes, only strong brands and dedicated eyeballs will win, but this is a step in the right direction.

Good luck.  Don't think this will work.  Consumers are not going to pay one month of cable bill to get TikiBar shows.  Site doesn't get much traffic and this will not make it any easier to monetize.  But it will be fun to see what happens with it.  Only strong brands can get away with this strategy.

Yes!  Music to my eyes!  Content has value, to me the main problem has been an unrealistic VC-fueled "free is good" culture.  It has gone on so long we have become used to it. Wrong.  This expectation of "free" needs to go away, it is a terrible business model. Only portal sites ever achieve the eyeballs needed to make ad support work, and there are only 3 or 4 portal sites. For the rest of us, assuming content creators are making content that their fans want, enough of the fans will come through and make a revenue producing model actually work.

Jeff Bach

$49 is way too much for web content. you can get 2 TV show seasons on DVD for that price. 9.99 would have seemed more reasonable

I don’t see it as a viable business model because of the pay for view… but then again I didn’t think XM and Sirius would work.

Great Idea! I comment you Tiki Bar for doing the harder right and actually SELLING your content. It's hard to believe that is news but hey it's a big step in the right direction!