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Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month
Ponca City, We love you writes "The LA Times reports that in an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for rental until several weeks after going on sale. Under the plan, new DVD releases would be available on a purchase-only basis for a few weeks, after which time companies such as Blockbuster and Netflix would be allowed to rent the DVDs to their customers. 'The studios are wrestling with declines in DVD sales while the DVD rental market has been modestly growing,' says Reed Hastings the CEO of Netflix. 'If we can agree on low-enough pricing, delayed rental could potentially increase profits for everyone.' Three studios have already tried to impose a no-rental period of about a month on Redbox, the operator of kiosks that rent movies for $1 per night, believing that Redbox's steeply discounted price undercuts DVD sales. Redbox has responded by suing the studios, seeking to force them to sell it DVDs simultaneously with competitors. Meanwhile, the company is stocking its kiosks with DVDs it can't otherwise obtain by buying them from retailers."
I wouldn't buy a BluRay movie unless it was significantly cheaper than one on DVD. Why would I pay more for a disk that I need a more expensive player for that outputs exactly the same (on my non-$2000 TV)?
idiot
whooosh, or did you mean to be facetious and failed miserably?
Why bother
Really? Because I'm the type of guy, when someone tries to push me around, I will do the opposite of what they want just to show them they shouldn't try to push people around. Screw these bozos, I'll put off buying any new movies until they quite this greedy behavior.
Yeah, cut your nose off to spite your face. That's a good plan. It'll really show them who's boss!
My bet: you talk big, but you won't actually modify your behavior (iow: either you already don't buy movies, or you'll keep buying at the same rate).
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Epic fail, along with the gaggle of tools that modded you "Insightful." What's the argument this time? The copyright holder won't give you the product when you want it, so you're going to pirate it? You won't spend the $30 to buy it when it comes out, and instead of waiting a month and renting it for $2, you're going to pirate it. You are one cheap sonofabitch. It's assholes like you that encourage the MAFIAA's crap and make it so hard to get a real discussion on reform going. But thanks for fucking it up for everybody else.
What a bunch of dumb, motherfucking, whiney crybabies.
Not one of you motherfuckers seems to have a problem with the fact that movies are not even made available for rental until after they've had their run in the theater. Why? Because they want to maximize sales of theater tickets. That doesn't mean anyone is being forced to see the movie in the theater. Christ, I haven't been inside a movie theater in the past ten years. I wait for rentals.
The same goes for holding off on rentals until the movies have had a chance to sell on DVD - there is an opportunity to maximize profits. That doesn't mean anybody is forcing you to buy it.
Oh, I'm sorry - I forgot, all big cor-pirate-tions are nothing but pure evil.
What are you motherfuckers worried about? You all plan on stealing the movies anyway. It's not like you ever planned on paying for them.
Go fuck off - the lot of you!!
Yeah, you know I speak the truth, but you're going to mod me as a troll anyway because of my tone - aintcha?