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Your Most Frequently-Asked Questions .. and Answers!
Offering your own DVDs on Chat Rooms is as easy as Paris Hilton! <wink> . . . Just participate
in Chat Rooms HD, and use the handy-dandy "DVD Customizer" tool to author your own DVDs.
Chat Rooms takes care of the rest, and all proceeds are split in the classic 50/50 model of "you deliver the service, and Chat Rooms delivers the customers". Of course, you earn 100% on DVD sales to customers that you recruited to Chat Rooms.
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Top Questions by Stars Concerning Chat Rooms DVDs:
"Where does one find DVDs on Chat Rooms?"
Two places:
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A new "DVD" tab in a FanClub's "Eye Candy" area.
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Chat Rooms DVD Library
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"Why DVDs? What's in it for me?"
Chat Rooms DVDs deliver these amazing benefits to Stars like you:
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New offline revenue stream that puts cash in your purse 24/7 ... even when you're not online.
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Wider exposure on Chat Rooms, to generate more traffic into your fanclub and live videochat
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More fans: Stars who offer DVDs have more to offer prospective fans than Stars who don't.
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More $$$ from fans: The "Free DVD" fanclub option guarantees you earn the Fan's membership fee, even if he cancels early.
Plus, the Superfan fanclub membership option (one free DVD per month and 25% discount off of VOD or DVDs of other Stars), is
premium-priced at a level you specify, with a monthly membership fee as high as $49.95.
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Full fanclub exposure on DVD:
Every single frame of your DVD movie prominently exposes your ScreenName.FanClubs.Com internet address.
In between scenes, a sexy animation reminds viewers that the sexy hottie on their widescreen TV screen can
also be enjoyed live at his or her fanclub address!
An index of the most frequently-asked questions and answers follows.
(For more ideas and information about success with DVDs, visit the About DVDs page,
or familiarize yourself with the Chat Rooms DVD Library of more than
1,000 titles (it's the largest catalog of HD DVD titles
in the world!)
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"How can I offer my own DVDs?"
Offering your own DVDs on Chat Rooms is as easy as Paris Hilton! <wink> . . . Just participate
in Chat Rooms HD, and use the handy-dandy "DVD Customizer"
tool to author your own DVDs. (To deliver the world's highest-quality DVDs ever produced,
all Chat Rooms DVDs are sourced with the original HD footage captured from Chat RoomsHD-compatible HD camcorders).
Chat Rooms takes care of the rest, and all proceeds are split in the classic 50/50 model of "you deliver the service, and Chat Rooms delivers the customers".
Of course, you earn 100% on DVD sales
to customers that you recruited to Chat Rooms.
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"I don't participate in Chat Rooms HD, but I'm interested in offering DVD material from my non-HD replays and videoclips, such as my Easycam archives. Can I?"
Not at this time, and perhaps ... never. Reason: Chat Rooms DVDs are all about giving Chat Rooms Fanatics an easier method for enjoying
the spectacular high-def quality of Chat Rooms HD. Chat Rooms DVDs are simply a way to skip the 20-hour download for users who aren't
on super-high-end university-level high-speed internet connections.
While EasyCam replays and standard non-HD LiveStream materials look and act great on a PC screen, and download quickly, when
copied onto a DVD and
slipped into your home-entertainment Sony system, they look .... not so great.
For now – and perhaps forever – Chat Rooms DVDs are
inextricably linked to Chat Rooms HD.
To enjoy the incredible traffic and revenue benefits of Chat Rooms DVD, offering Chat Rooms HD is a
prerequisite.
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"Once I have provided Chat Rooms with HD content, how can I author DVDs?"
Easy: Just navigate to any HD clip, and click the "DVD Customizer" link: (it's the same tool fans use to author their own custom DVDs):
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"What about my Privacy? Do my Chat Rooms Privacy Block Zones apply to DVDs?"
Absolutely. Any DVD that contains footage of you cannot be ordered by, or shipped to, any street
address that you have designated as within an Privacy Block Zone.
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"What's the revenue split? How much do I earn from DVD sales?"
All DVD sales are split in the classic 50/50 model of "you deliver the service, and Chat Rooms delivers the customers". Of course, you earn 100% on DVD sales
to customers that you recruited to Chat Rooms. While users like you are responsible for creating and authoring each DVD (using the DVD Customizer tool),
Chat Rooms handles all production, shipping and fulfillment costs.
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"What's with the new FanClub membership options, "DVD option" and "Superfan?"
The new FanClub join options are dynamite!
DVD Option: The first new option, "DVD membership", is identical to the classic (and still top-billed)
"Join for Free" option, and carries the same price and terms, but includes one extra benefit for the fan: A free DVD! (If you offer DVDs, it'll be one of your DVDs; if
not, then a "best of Chat Rooms" DVD).
What's in it for you? One very important benefit: With DVDs being shipped to actual addresses of fans, Chat Rooms has fewer problems with
fanclub credit-card fraud, and you no longer have to worry about not being paid for your fanclub joins
that cancel prematurely. Now, you get paid every time!
SuperFan Option: The 'Superfan' membership tier represents a new premium-priced level of fanclub membership.
Your SuperFan gets up to one free DVD per month from your fanclub (all at Chat Rooms expense, of course),
and discounts off of DVDs and VOD he might buy
from other stars, yet not be a Superfan-level member of their fanclubs.
What's in it for you? Two great benefits: First, you can set the price of your SuperFan-level membership up to $49.99.
(The default price is your regular fanclub price, plus $10 ... you can change the price in your FanClub Manager/Dressing Room: It's the first option
under "Features I should update occassionally".
Second, since your Superfan gets a free DVD each month (at Chat Rooms expense), expect him to remain your loyal fan for much longer!
With such a great deal, why ever cancel your fanclub?
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"I see that there's a 'Best of Chat Rooms DVD, that features dozens of Stars. Can I be included on that DVD?"
Of course. If you are an HD host and you support DVD (i.e., you have not opted out of DVD), then you can enjoy the
permanent long-term exposure that comes from appearing on "Best-Of Chat Rooms" DVDs that form the centerpiece of thousands
of Chat Rooms' members private DVD collections!
The most important criteria that governs appearances on Best-Of DVDs is any existing Privacy Block Zones you might have. To ensure that no star appears
on a DVD that is shipped to an area that she has indicated as off-limits through her privacy block zone,
Chat Rooms produces a variety of different Best-of DVDs by geographic region. For example, if you have blocked areas of Canada,
you will only appear in Best-of-Chat Rooms DVDs provided to U.S. residents.
The next most important criteria:
Best-Of DVDs are produced by our talented creative production team who exercises complete artistic discretion. While there are no guarantees, we can tell you what
these HD professionals tend to look for:
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Lighting, Lighting, Lighting! When you shoot Chat Rooms HD footage, concentrate on excellent production values (especially lighting!).
Also good: Bright colors, sexy clothes, great makeup, attractive setting, etc.
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Wear Chat Rooms-logo clothing, such as the "Join My Fanclub!" baseball cap, t-shirt, thong, etc.
Click here for store. (all items priced at cost; Chat Rooms
receives no revenues from store partner)
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The right attitude. Have fun! Can you look hot and be playful at the same time? Do your eyes sparkle with mischief as you wear a devilish grin?
Smiles, grins, winks, tease, . . . if you're having fun with it,
if you're free and uninhibited, if you're having a ball, HD captures that playful and energetic attitude like no other medium.
That's how to make Chat Rooms HD magic.
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Look into the camera: Connect with the viewer. It's all about eye contact: Chat Rooms HD is so high-resolution and ultra-realistic, for many viewers the line between fantasy and reality is blurred.
You can make that fantasy even more real by
looking straight into the camera lens, making eye contact with the viewer, and even talking to the viewer. Help him (or her) feel as though (s)he is right there with you, participating
in the experience, sharing the experience, and enjoying the experience with you. Important: When facing the camera, look at it and speak to it as though it were a real person (perhaps
one of your fans), and imagine that you're driving your fan crazy with excitement. Connect!
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Be vocal. While the most exciting aspect of Chat Rooms HD may be the awesome visuals, don't forget that viewers of your HD are expressing a very deep interest in you. So talk to your HD viewers! Don't be shy. Tell the HD viewer how
excited it makes you feel knowing that they're taking a good, long, close-up look at you.
(And while you're at it, don't forget to remind your HD viewer where he can "get more" from you – at your FanClub and in live videochat!)
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Dare to be different. Show your creative side. It's not easy – in a 30 to 60 second trailer – to capture the incredible selection and awesome variety available on the Chat Rooms platform. But we try. If your HD footage
"breaks the mold" and dares to be different, we might include it in the trailer. We currently have a shortage of couples & lesbian/gay footage. Other ways to be different:
Make like Steven Spielberg and show your creativity, with costumes, a plotline, or small skit . . .
Unusual camera angles . . . Unusual positions or contortions . . . outdoor footage (but not in public) . . . etc.
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Anything that shows off the intricate detail of Chat Rooms HD: (close-ups, for example,
of fine details such as the dimples in your smile or the nape of your neck)
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"Why does the 'Play Thumbnail' link on a DVD track sometime shows my FanClub-only clip, and other times show a censored clip?"
If a user who is not a member of your fanclub attempts to preview any track on a DVD featuring you, that user will see a censored overlay.
On the other hand, if the user
is a member of your fanclub, he will see the fans-only version.
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"Hasn't the internet transformed the DVD market into a dying industry? Why DVDs now, of all times?"
Yes -- Standard DVDs, as we know them today, will probably no longer be offered by the consumer-electronics and
entertainment industries five years from now. Any DVD that we can buy or
rent today, at a Blockbuster or a Wal-Mart
will be available five years from now as a digital download offering by our
cable TV company, satellite TV provider or internet provider.
But that's only true for regular DVDs. HD DVDs, with three
times the resolution and picture quality, and twice the image size of standard DVDs (six times more
information), are just getting
started. You can already watch WMV-HDs at their highest-resolution and finest quality if you have a Microsoft Windows MediaCenter-Edition PC with
at least a 2.5ghz CPU. You can already buy such movies from Amazon.com
(See www.wmvHD.com for a
list of the very first generation of WMV-HD titles, most of which are iMax movies. Yes, iMax, as in giant-movie-screen iMax. That's how
visually stunning HD DVDs are.)
And as anyone who has tried to download a 1GB 1080i HD movie from a Chat Rooms HD host's fanclub
knows, these files are just too enormous to download and play anywhere in real time. And therein lies the magic of HD DVDs: Too "supersized" to
be downloaded on-demand by millions of fans, HD DVDs will represent a convenient delivery mechanism for your highest-quality content, to your highest-quality
fans, for years to come.
And coming this Christmas: WMV-HD players for your home entertainment center, to replace your standard DVD player, offered all the big
consumer-entertainment giants from Toshiba to Sony and beyond.
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"Isn't Chat Rooms supposed to be about the Live experience? How do DVDs fit in?"
Chat Rooms is, and will always be, about live videochat. DVDs are merely one of many available tools
on the Chat Rooms platform to build loyalty,
attract audiences, and – for those Stars that appreciate the entrepreneurial opportunities
available on Chat Rooms – expand and diversify your income across yet another new revenue channel.
DVDs also serve a role very similar to Chat Rooms archives: Most traffic to your videochat room or fanclub doesn't arrive
at your videochat room until you've somehow "been seen" on Chat Rooms. (After all, Chat Rooms
is the "see and be seen" platform!) But how to be seen? Answer: Present your fanclub and
live videochat in as many different Chat Rooms channels as possible. HD is one such channel. DVDs are another.
And lastly, a final thought for the adult-oriented video chathosts: When the typical
viewer of an adult DVD ogles the actress or actor who performs in that DVD, what is that viewer's secret wish? Answer:
To have a live encounter with that actress/actor. Chat Rooms DVDs are the only DVDs on
earth that empower Stars
to not only be the
objects of someone's fantasy, but to also benefit from that exposure when that someone
progresses to the next step in fantasy fulfillment: A live (videochat) encounter or fanclub
membership!
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"DVDs sound great for many Stars, but I'm afraid it's not for me. Can I opt out?"
Of course! From within your FanClub Manager/Dressing Room, select "Features I should update Occasionally", and look for this item under "FanClub Content Control":
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"Can I make changes or edit my DVDs after they've been created?"
Of course. Follow these easy steps to access your DVD edit facility.
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Log-in under your VCH screenname.
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From within your FanClub Manager/Dressing Room, visit your DVD page (click DVD under "My Eye Candy").
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Click "Edit this Page" (look for the wrench icon).
Next, select the DVD title you want to edit. You can edit the title, description and price of DVDs that you author. And in the illustration below, you can
also designate any single DVD in your list -- including DVDs authored by your fans -- as the Free DVD that is
shipped to new fanclub members
who join with the "Join with DVD" option.
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"Is there a way I can edit or remove Custom DVDs created by others that feature me?"
Sure. Just follow these easy steps:
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Log-in under your VCH screenname.
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From within your FanClub Manager/Dressing Room, visit your DVD page (click DVD under "My Eye Candy").
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Click "Edit this Page" (look for the wrench icon).
For each DVD listed, under the "Visibility" column, there appears a "Visible to Public?" checkbox.
Check (or uncheck) this box to either show or hide a custom DVD in your collection.
Here's what it looks like:
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