Comment Is youtube a good brand for this ? (Score 1) 475
The problem with making user to pay for YouTube is quite simple : Brand recognition.
YouTube was a huge success thanks to stupid short videos with bad to just correct video quality. See it, laugh at it (or facepalm) and forget it.
There is certainly a market for flash streaming of premium content (movies, series, animes, shows...), but not with the youtube name. Create a new site, allow only professionnal or professionnal-looking content on it, raise the minimum quality requirements to 480p H.264, find a cool name, and it should work.
The other problem is the insane CPU eating habit of the flash player, but that's quite another story.