Selling large and multiple video files

[staninbrooklyn]

I have several products I wish to sell as downloadables. Each product is comprised of approximately 600 MP4 files (for iPhone, iPod, Droid). Each product is approximately 400 MB. Ideally we want the purchaser to be able to download the entire set of files at the same time, save them to his computer, and then drag them to his or her smart phone or MP4 player. We have a couple questions/issues.



It seems hosting these products on ejunkie will be very expensive because each purchase will eat up about 400 MB in bandwidth charges. We can host these on another server and then just cloak the link through ejunkie. Can someone recommend another service to host these files. We could FTP them but then we'd have to sell the file as just a compressed ZIP file. It would be nice to find some elegant interface where the customer could pick or choose the files to download if they don't want all of them. We have looked at box.net and yousendit.com. Not sure if there are others out there worth pursuing.



Are there are any other companies doing the same thing? Quite frankly the only thing I've found similar are some illegal torrent sites whose interfaces are more user-friendly and elegant than many commercial offerings. And we wonder why they're so popular.

[E-junkie_Guru]

Presumably you'd be using our Remotely Hosted Download feature, explained here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.file-downloads.htm#remote



However, in that case you would indeed be offering a single .zip file, which the buyer would download and decompress to get all 600 individual mp4s. You could have them organized into subfolders before you zip the main folder they're in, so that subfolder organization would be retained in the unzipped file.



Note that any remote hosting you'd use would need to be able to provide a static URL which does not ever change and can be used to access your file directly, without requiring the downloader to go through a "download page" nor even use an actual Web browser program (since it will be our back-end download scripts accessing your remote file, not the buyer's browser directly).



If you would prefer to redirect buyers to a download interface of your own, then you could use the product-specific version of our Redirection feature:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.redirection.htm#product



However, that would necessarily expose the URL of your Redirection landing page in the buyer's browser, where they could conceivably bookmark it or share it with others, which would allow them to access that page directly in the future without going through our Redirection link, so it would be up to you to build custom scripting into your page to ensure that the page cannot be accessed without having gone through E-junkie to get there.