My website will be simillar to well known web sites like:www.MediaZone.com,http://www.cinemanow.com.

To stream Video to alot of users will take massive bandwidth, you could very easily be talking in the thousands.

Too much money for the amount of bandwidth and size of files.

You better have deep pockets or sponsors or charge a fee.

Good luck.

Sarge

You'd need dedicated hosting - possibly a few servers.

Licensing fees on the videos offered (depending on the content offered)

I'd say you might be looking at a minimum of 拢2,000 a month for a professional setup.

Your issues will be surrounding bandwidth and disk space. While people will be streaming the videos, they are still downloaded.

Massive bandwidth, massive disk space, security, licensing, coders - It all adds up.

To summarise the costs for each component for an "average" small business to get onto the Internet: