Business Idea: Internet-synced DVD Commentary

We all know someone who knows everything about their favorite movies.  It’s fun, sometimes, to watch a movie with them and listen to all they have to say about it, which we’re watching.

Create a piece of desktop software, a DVD viewer, that can pull streaming audio commentary and text annotations simultaneously from the Internet… and overlay the audio and text on the video being played.

For someone to watch the commentary and see the annotations of one of their friends (or some guy that’s filed a public commentary), they’re going to actually have to own the DVD.

Make it a great service, then approach all the manufacturers about licensing your API to integrate it into their set-top players.  🙂

There’s nothing that says that if they’re using your player to view the DVD and listen to the commentary, that they can’t watch a couple of 15/30 seconds video ads first.  That’s RIGHT, you’re selling advertising that’s shown in their home theater on a movie they already paid a license to see.

There’s nothing that says you can’t put Flash advertising in the corner of their screen while they’re using the service.

They have to have your software to view or record commentary for the network.  So, they’re trading some of their desktop / home landscape to you for the service.  And you use the landscape for some advertising.

** As I look, you can download commentary tracks and play them with players like VLC.  So, you’re going to need to make this thing work on the community aspect and the EASE OF CREATING  new commentaries by encoding the audio and automatically getting it onto an Internet server.  The community aspect has to to with listing to simultaneous comments from multiple people, like a Follower system.