 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to bgraham
Re: I pretty much agree with the sentiment here. said by bgraham:We have gone from 2 local stores to 1. I have not rented a movie in a year or so. I have FIOS and usually pay the $3.99 to $5.99 for the occasional movie. It's a lot easier than going to Blockbuster twice. I would use a service that had downloadable movies if it was cheaper than FIOS and done from my home. I have absolutely no use for buying special hardware or going to the store to pick up memory cards. This sounds like something that will never get off the ground. Once again for people like my friends that have no access to broadband how is this bad?
Movie theaters should offer movies streamed over broadband directly from the showing at local theaters. They could offer this when movies are all digital (maybe they are now??). I would pay $10 for a home viewing of a new release movie instead of 2 tickets at $8 each plus gas and popcorn and cokes at $5 each.
I would not mind having to watch the movie at home at set times just like in the theater.
Except it wouldn't be the theaters offering it it would be the studios. Not sure how a little local movie theater would have the infrustuctre to stream movies to potentially thousands of homes at once.
Also studios are experimenting with this. However don't expect to pay $10 for such a service expect it to cost at least $20-$25.
Studios make money on a movie from theaters, then the DVD release, then the PPV release, then the HBO/Showtime etc showing, then the regular cable showing. Now in the old days this was a good way to have continuous stream of revenue from a movie for well over a year. Since pirating seems to be such an issue then logic would dictate the best method would be to do it all at once. You would knock out the majority of reason why people pirate movies. It's going to take a while before the studios get it though. |
