| Really the plan is to get rid of dvds "Like so many legacy businesses impacted by broadband, executives apparently believe that making it harder for users to obtain content will prevent or slow the extinction of physical media. It will likely due neither, but it will likely continue to contribute to soaring piracy rates, a chain reaction studios haven't quite figured out a decade down the line."
I believe the studios intent is to actually eliminate physical dvds, and the point of the Netflix/Redbox delays was always to move the renters from Netflix/Redbox to the VOD/PPV providers. I'd guess they make 4-5 times the revenue from PPV vs netflix or redbox. So even if they are getting 20% of the renters to buy a ppv release when they are bored instead of waiting for Netflix to get it, then the delay is a financial success to them. In fact some studios have pushed the Physical disc window a few weeks past the vod window now.
Online distribution gives them the control they are looking for, and the delay windows are their tool in getting people there.
Doesn't make them any less greedy, just pointing out the motivation is likely not what you say it is.
As you say though, piracy will keep them somewhat in check. |
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| If you do not support the DVd in the end all of you out there will be owned by the thieves of the MAFIAA.You will not own the movies,etc you buy they will own them and they will own you.
BOYCOTT MAFIAA !!
Buy only used physical media or buy new INDIE DVD. |
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said by nfotiu:As you say though, piracy will keep them somewhat in check.
Their obstinate refusal to move into the 21st century makes the case for piracy.
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