The digital cinema as potential Tardigrade use case?

Sooner or later there will be more information available on Videocoin.
Here is something that I have found:

In phase 1, which is currently advancing, the VideoCoin Network development team will be building tools to allow for the storage of video files, made capable by Storj. This is the critical first step in building the technical foundation needed to integrate key features via this partnership.
The development work being done includes feature additions in Storj software stack to make the live-streams generated on VideoCoin playable from Storj’s storage. We will be providing python scripts(open source repo) to move the files generated on VideoCoin to Storj. The publishers who are using VideoCoin console will run these scripts as a post-processing operation.

VideoCoin Network’s Innovators Program assembles best-of-breed next-generation video solutions to enable the decentralized future of video services - a growing global need in light of COVID-driven video demand. For media customers of the VideoCoin Network, Tardigrade can provide both long-term, reliable storage for transcoded assets and serve as origin servers for customers’ preferred CDN providers.

When a video stream is sent to the end-user, that video must be transcoded. This is the compute-heavy processing of raw data executed by our VideoCoin Network Workers. Workers do the heavy lifting and offer the customer an efficient and cost-effective way to transcode videos.

And from their website: https://videocoin.network/

Video File Encoding
Ingest and encode your video files and output an HLS stream

Livestream With Ease
Stream live from any RTMP or WebRTC source and output an HLS stream

So it seems that Videocoin targets the transcoding of content and is more geared towards streaming. So this sounds more like “Netflix” type customers aka a specific distribution channel for video content.

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