Is the water still warm? Membership Sites

Hello everyone,

I haven't posted here in awhile but did visit quite often and even bought some good products and I hate to beat a dead horse but I want to try a membership site. I have a few questions that maybe all of you could help with.

I read quite a few post here on membership sites and know the details about running a good membership and to start with great content plus keeping it updated frequently. It's going to be tough with lots of work and I'm ready!

I bought RAP with the membership addon and I think it's going to be great! It's just going to take me awhile to learn like everything else. But here are some questions I have. I may not get back to you soon since I'm on the road but I will check back. I hope many of you have some great solutions.

I will be offering all sorts of tutorial videos, yes another tutorial site but they say video is where it's at! Anyway, here are some hard questions I need help with.

1.) How do you like offering your videos in a membership site? Flash video or just zip them up for download. I guess bandwidth would be enormous right? and cost?

2.) Should I offer a lifetime membership for the intro videos and then upsell to another level of membership for even more videos? Or is it better to just keep adding more videos every month?

3.) Has anyone had success with offering videos on DVD's inside a membership as an upsell? Maybe using Kunaki?

I know I read in the forum or someplace that offering maybe a trial for a dollar and then raise the price next month. Does that work pretty good or do people grab the videos and run?

Well I better stop asking questions before this gets to long. Hope you can help!

Thanks
Mike A.