usenetrocks
@charter.com
| reply to c0de
Re: netflix untill the price drops about 7 dollars
7 bucks??? you wanna pay the price of a movie theatre admission (they're 6.50 in town here, used to be 4.00 a couple years ago and 8.00 or more in the city) to buy a movie you can only watch on a computer monitor?
for 4-5 bucks you can rent a ppv from satellite or cable and watch it on your tv set AND (in most cases) record it as well to tape or dvd. for a few bucks you can rent a dvd from a rental store or service...
for 7-10 bucks or so a month you can subscribe to a premium movie service (hbo, etc), and record-to-keep anything that's aired, including 'on demand' selections and hd too.
so, for crippled computer-only movie downloads, i say a fair price is more like 2 bucks (or less) a movie.. 50-75 cents for an hour long (40-45 minutes w/o ads) tv show, and 25-50 cents for a half-hour (20-22 minutes) show.
but the first site that streams movies on a system like abc did a few months ago (and still does for abc family shows like kyle xy & three moons), with limited ads, for free will be the site that takes this 'non-dvd-compatible' computer-only online movie business. |
