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Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek
crimeandpunishment writes "Paramount Pictures is trying to live long and prosper by selling Seagate Technology hard drives with the latest Star Trek movie on board ... along with 20 other films. The 500GB hard drive will sell for a special promotional price of $100. It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
The 500GB hard drive will sell for a special promotional price of $100.
Oh yeah that is, of course, if you don't want to watch the titles. If you want to watch the movies:
The other movies distributed by Paramount, including "GI Joe," ''Nacho Libre" and "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" come pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.
So yeah it's $100 or over triple that if you actually want to watch the "promotional" material. Otherwise you're buying a hard drive with a (presumably Windows) partition that has Windows DRM and twenty movies taking up 50 gigabytes of space. Sounds to me like a lame AOL CD that gets you working with the shit and then hopes that you just keep using their platform for buying and downloading movies.
I guess a brave soul could buy the drive and leave the 50 gigs intact and then download the 20 movies and feign ignorance if the MPAA comes knocking at the door. I wonder if there's some consumer protection laws that states if you buy something legally you have a right to enjoy it. Because right now you're buying a digital copy of something that is encrypted but you're not receiving the license that is required to watch it. They better carefully label that the PROMOTION part of the sale lest a consumer figures that they're paying 10% for the movies and 90% for the drive and then becomes upset when they get home and can't watch the movies without ponying up an additional 200%-300%.
Both companies declined to say if they were taking a loss on the promotional price.
Really? Oh yeah, sounds like Sony is bending over backwards to trap you into paying the retail price of owning the digital movie that sells for $15 right now on Amazon. They're using Seagate and Seagate customers are rubes to get around paying for streaming bandwidth of these 50 gigs to potential customers.
I choose to rate this tactic as USDA certified lame. Shame on Seagate. Shame on Sony. I feel sorry for those that might buy this without realizing what they're getting themselves into.
My work here is dung.
" It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to netflix and other cheaper content avenues."
They also come loaded with a DRM system that will probably function like a virus or some form of malware to not only make it impossible to watch these movies without calling into the server, but also possibly scanning your system for other Paramount movies and either deleting them or reporting you to the MPAA. They could include 100 movies and it still wouldn't be worth it to have something like that lurking around on my system.
Frankly, I would have more trust in a hard drive I bought from a sleazy-looking dude with a Russian accent hanging on my local street corner. And Sergey is not very trustworthy.
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Plug it in, point vsftp at it - help yourselves, kids!
An interesting sequel: Snakes... On a hard drive!
Samuel Jackson: I've had it with those m***fscking snakes on this m****fscking hard drive! /mnt/paramount/snakes_on_a_hard_drive.avi [enter]
*typety type type* rm -rf
Samuel Jackson: There, done.
So, can I buy one of these drives, reformat it, and then torrent these movies legally?
"An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140" This is factually inaccurate, the only way I can see you spending that much on a 500 gig drive, especially the typically bad Seagate drives is to buy them at Best Buy. For that much cash Newegg was selling a 2TB drive yesterday.
I can get a 1TB hard-drive for under a $100 at many locations (costco, google-shopping) so this seems like a big waste of money to me.
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At 15% less than the price of a blank hard drive.
He was suggesting preloading content as a way to struggle against commoditization and to do something with today's enormous capacities. I don't think he mentioned saving bandwidth as a reason, but never underestimate the bandwidth of a 2TB drive on a UPS truck.
I don't have a citation for you, but I think it was a Forbes article.
Well stop shipping your cargo through the waters off the coast of Somalia!
You can't take the sky from me...
I mean now, to steal a movie, you have to go to a torrent tracker or other share site or drive to a rental place and rent the DVD you are going to rip. unless you use Netflix of course. But, thanks to Paramount, your new hard drive already comes with a digital copy of the movie, ripe for sharing!
Yes, I know that DRM is involved but we've all seen how well that has worked out in the past. Why don't they just cut to the chase and load the drive with 20 different trojans instead? Just make the icons nudey pictures and most guys won't have a problem shelling out cash to "see more". that is if the track record of all the people who complain to me about how "slow" their systems are is anything to go by.
I guess this is just another one of those things that make you go hmmmmm.
Anyway, you can at least snag a 500 Seagate for about 30% off. Just needs to be formatted.
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
My work here is dung.
Nothing new. They've been at selling Star Trek branded USB Thumb drives with the movie on it in a DRMed format for a bit now. Showed up about 1-2 months ago at Fry's. I suspected that the HD's with that same story would show up shortly in the consumer boxed drives. (And people wonder why I would rather have the OEM bulk-pack stuff...)
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This means the drive is filled with extra useless crap wasting space before a format. It'd be a sad thing to discover you paid extra for this, only to not be able to actually use the movies as you would any other file, or even DVD. Hardly a "promotion", more like a way to gamble and write off a loss on old stock.
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Store Clerk: "I'm sorry, sir, but all of our hard drives come fullly loaded with tons of crap that nobody wants and nobody needs. In other words, you buy a 500G drive, with zero free space. But the content producers pay us a cut to push the shit, and we like that."
"If you want to buy an empty hard drive, that will cost you a bit extra . . ."
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I can't believe people get paid real money to come up with these ideas
never underestimate the bandwidth of a 2TB drive on a UPS truck.
Yes, but the pingtimes are awful!
This isn't it, but it could be done well and complete with Netflix. If the hard drives were the *same* price loaded with movies as empty, and you can "rent" movies by downloading a key. You end up with a similar user experience as with Netflix or cable "on-demand" movies. Sure, you have a small selection *but* you can "rent" movies almost instantly, even with dialup or cell-phone based internet.
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Hahaha, a 500GB drive for 100$ What kind of an idiot would buy that? I'd rather buy a 1TB drive for 100$ and get the movies off P2P.
Why would I pay $15 to take up drive space for a DVD quality film when the Blu Ray runs $16?
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> "It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
Fixed: "It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due slapping nerds in the face by changing Star Trek into a pure action film."
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The posting states that:
"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
Just how many 500GB HDD do they expect people to buy. I usually buy many more DVDs than HDDs any given year.
Not to mention, when you buy a HDD, do you look for price, performance, or the included movie?
500GB Seagate drive is available from Newegg for $54.99 with free shipping. Come on Sony... you gotta try harder than that!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395
Seagate has a press release with more information about this.
The drive is an external drive, which Newegg is selling for $100.
I don't care if they put it on my hard drive, I still refuse to watch that damn movie. I'm sick to death of reboots, time travel, alternate universes, or alien smurfs in 3D.
That's...kinda weird. Anyone tech-savvy enough to be buying bare HDD is just going to reformat it anyway, right?
I look at it like netbooks & laptops that inevitably come pre-configured with Windows and a ton of crapware: I may have little use for it, but there's nothing stopping me from wiping the drive & installing OS of my choice. If it lets them sell the machine more cheaply, under the fiction that the shovelware is "free advertising" for the vendors, it's a win for both me and the manufacturer.
Oh, except it's NOT a better deal. $100 is steep for only 500 GB. It would only look like a "deal" if you shop for components at Best Buy.
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It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy.
Maybe some of us just tire of re-buying the same movies on the newest format, or maybe they've been putting out so much crap that it's all we can do just to sit through the movie once. I don't buy or download movies, and I barely rent them. Methinks piracy is just the patsy for their own inabilities to cough up something watchable.
Remember in Hollywood a movie that earns millions in ticket sales, nonetheless fails to make a profit when the author has to be payed.
In Hollywood a shared movie does damages to the tune of roughly the world economy * infinity.
And in Hollywood a 500gb HD costs the price of a 2tb drive to anyone else.
This ain't even the typical scam of naming the recommended retail price as a the value of a gift, since Seagate doesn't even recommend this price itself.
Ah, hollywood and scamming. Remember, if you buy a movie, you are supporting these guys. Safe the free world, be a pirate!
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when it's 100 petabytes.
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ten percent of this hard drive is taken up by the studio's drm system. i would think they could do better than that.
hey paramount, make it 20% and you've got a deal!
- js.
Two factors:
1. Redbox and a much more efficient rental market, which is why the studios have bludgeoned them into a 28-day "waiting period" to try and force people to buy DVDs
2. What's worth actually buying? With the exception of Pixar's stuff, I haven't seen a movie I'd be willing to shell out for in about five years.
Greedy scum spreading lies again.
If DVD sales are falling, it is due to the poor quality of movies, overpricing, digital restriction management, attacking their customers, and an obsolete business model that has still not adapted to the internet age.
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
What is your problem with that? Is the information he provided less relevant, insightful or interesting in any way? Oh, right. You're posting that as AC, so you probably already know you're just trolling.
It's called Hardware DRM.
This is just the latest example of hard drives coming pre-loaded with malware.
Just keep swimming.
An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140.
No, it doesn't. 1TB external drives sell for $70 in Newegg's bargain basement.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yce9qhx
And that's retail. For being 500MB, these sound suspiciously like drives Seagate had sitting in a crate somewhere gathering dust, because they certainly are old tech.
pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.
So you *don't* get to watch the movies for $100. The real cost is $300 minimum in a drive that is spectacularly overpriced to start with. How many ways can you say "ripoff?"
DRM
It doesn't go into detail, but I'd bet you can't move those movies off the drive. Also, since these are DRM encumbered, they are a rental. If I want to rent movies, I will use netflix.
The special sale comes as Hollywood is struggling with falling DVD sales in the face of piracy and is looking for new ways to sell movies from its library.
Bullshit. Hollywood is *not* going begging. They're making more money than ever.
This is going to fail and they are going to blame it yet again on privacy when the failure has nothing to do with it but everything to do with trying to screw the customer as much as possible.
This is an insult to my intelligence as a consumer.
I have no sympathy for the studios. The sooner they go bankrupt the better.
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"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to Hollywood making crap."
Way to not be objective.. "falling DVD sales due to piracy".
Really - is that alleged link reported as a fact now? Even on Slashdot?
I thought DVD sales were plummeting because everyone was using Netflix, or buying (or waiting for) the Blu-Ray edition of things... or waiting for the second printing of the Blu-Ray (because the first one ships without "extras" or a bad transfer, just so they can sell you the same BR movie twice).
Or maybe DVD sales are plummeting because we're in the midst of a recession that is so bad that even the well-off and job holding public find themselves cutting unnecessary expenses...
The studios know this, of course, but want the media to continue parroting their "piracy" claims, so they can ram through their undemocratic treaties...
He wasn’t. He was referring to the Amazon referral program. The ?ref, on the other hand, was referring to the HTTP referer header to which you referred, which was referring to the word “referrer” but designed by people who couldn’t be bothered with referring to a dictionary.
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For $100 dollars I can buy half the hard drive space I would buy for $80 at Frys, with the additional benefit of buying 20 movies each, for the same price as a DVD I could buy and copy onto my hard drive effortlessly!
If only I could be guaranteed a ridculously short lifetime - oh, wait, it's a SEAGATE - I've had two or three of those over the years and they *all* died!
I'm just dizzy with the anticipation!
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What's up with Seagate? They seem to be increasingly looking for ways to make paperweights. And they used to be the standard.
Um, can't you buy real DVDs for a similar sort of price?
}"An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140."
Sure it does...in the year 2007.
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He wasn't. He was referring to the Amazon referral program.
Actually I was referring to Amazon's referal program where I was released back into the Amazon jungle and accepted by a pack of developers. In time I relearned their ways and mated with their women. As fate would have it, Amazon had only deferred their deferal program and as soon as it went back into effect I took advantage of it and here I am clean and shaven--almost fully capable of using a keyboard again!
My work here is dung.
The bandwidth is awesome for that...it's the latency that's the killer in many cases. :-D
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I'm surprised to see no mention of DRM at all, though I'm doubtful that they'll ship these movies DRM-free.
Actually I was referring to Amazon's referal program where I was released back into the Amazon jungle and accepted by a pack of developers. In time I relearned their ways and mated with their women.
Lie.
As fate would have it, Amazon had only deferred their deferal program and as soon as it went back into effect I took advantage of it and here I am clean
Lie lie.
and shaven
Lie lie lie.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
OMFG!! Why is hollywood so fixated on this ridiculous lie. Piracy isn't the reason no one buys DVDs. They don't buy DVDs because the movies suck.
They were saying the same stupid nonsense about why no one goes to the movies anymore, then what happened? Good movies came out, and look! People went to the movies in record numbers (and it wasn't the god damn 3D that was just icing - the movies were good!!).
Hollywood is run by morons.
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Actually I was referring to Amazon's referal program where I was released back into the Amazon jungle and accepted by a pack of developers. In time I relearned their ways and mated with their women.
Lie.
No, I swear it's true. One of the developers even called me up on Monday to give me "some friendly advice to hit up a clinic" (whatever that means).
and shaven
Lie lie lie.
I'm not misleading you. Everyone else calls this time phenomenon Friday and Saturday or, if you're a PHP developer, you have to call it Satruday because when someone misspells something in software that you use you have to persist that misspelling when you speak about that topic until the end of time.
My work here is dung.
Anyway, already have the movie on BD... and I fell asleep on the plane 20 minutes into watching "GI Joe" - most boring movie of the year. Thanks Paramount, though, usually I don't sleep on a flight.
I was all on-board until I saw the "you have to buy the code to unlock the movies" crap.
What a great way to sell a new drive. If it were 140-150 and the movies were free then I might have actually though about buying one. Instead, you have a drive with useless wasted space.
How stupid.
Dear Paramount Pictures, When I read that a 500GB hard drive came with a copy of Star Trek on it, I reached for my wallet. Even though I already own the blu-ray version. When I read "20 other movies included", I dropped my wallet because I was trying to pull out my debit card too fast. Even if they are old low quality/low budget movies I think this is a great deal! I want to buy one before they sell out. Then I read "DRM" and "additional fees to watch the movies". I now feel like you have insulted my intelligence and I will be sure to pirate your movies from now on. It's not about money. I spend plenty of money. It's about convenience and value. Your ex-customer,
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No it's not. The spec has a spelling error in it which, unfortunately, has become a standard. However, that doesn't mean it's the correct spelling-- it isn't and never has been.
It's really just yet one more example of how much the W3C sucks at their job.
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"It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to ever increasing DRM bullshit legit. users have to deal with.
...but I very rarely watch a movie more than once. Ever. So now I just watch the movie for $4.99 OnDemand and I'm done. I still purchase movies for the kids because they'll watch great titles like "Planet 51" over and over again.
I think the bigger problem is that there are few titles worth purchasing rather than blaming everything on piracy. I don't know if I've ever seen a pirated movie for sale anywhere. But I've seen many crappy titles that I've picked up and then placed back on the shelf.
for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy.
DVD sales are falling, and piracy may be increasing. However, movie quality is also falling, Hulu is climbing, alternative video entertainment (YouTube, vidcasts, &c) is climbing, streaming rentals (Netflix, Blockbuster, iTunes) are climbing, and digital sales are climbing. Average consumer confidence over the past decade has also been at historical lows and the lift from the real estate boom mostly brought (lottery-like, irrational) lump sums of disposable cash that were used for big ticket items, not DVDs. Expanding mortgage obligations also tend to hamper smaller scale short-term disposable income (the kind that is used for DVDs).
The decline of DVD sales is certainly not entirely due to piracy, and may not even be largely due to it. Every time the two are conflated as having a strict and isolated causative relationship the ability to rationally discuss the issue is harmed. Please don't over-simplify this complex system -- there is great harm being done by over-legislation in this area already.
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Is that you are getting "a" Star Trek movie, not "Star Trek" the 2009 version.
I hope you enjoy our $100 hard drive preloaded with the finest in American cinema (at least according to the American Movie Classics channel, which shows it at least once a week):
Star Trek: Nemesis
It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy.
Does this mean we'll start to see bootleg hard drives with pre-ripped movies soon?
How cool would it be to just plug in the new movies into the NAS?
Is this their first version of this. Hrm, thanks, but I'll wait for the 2nd and 4th versions.
I don't agree with the "falling sales because of piracy". It might as well be becuase of availability of other options such as netflix or redbox. I wish the MPAA and what not stop using the piracy BS.
I think the biggest myth is that DVD sales are dropping because of piracy. First the quantity of movies has increased, but the quality has decreased. Where we once waited for that handful of great summertime blockbusters that we would want to own in the fall, we are now inundated with literally hundreds of crappy log budget movies and might be entertaining for the 90 minutes at the theater, but are not worth spending $20 - $30 on.
When I upgraded to a Blu-ray player I found that if I am going to spend $30+ on a movie its going to be one I want to watch at least a few more times. And frankly I just don't see that many movies these days I want to watch repeatedly, let alone OWN. And I don't even bother downloading movies these days (why, Blu-ray is so much better quality). I rent them through an online service, watch them once, and then that is it. If I want to watch them again I will add them to my rental list and they will show up in the mail magically one day.
I think after-screening movie sales is a dying market. Hollywood has killed their own market by making 1000's a movies a year (some straight to DVD) people want to watch once instead of a few dozen really good films that people want to own. Hollywood has to make a decision on whether to profit by making large quantities of films, or profit off of making a few good quality films, and I think we have seen where Hollywood makes the most money.
Good movies will always make money. Avatar will sell millions on DVD and Blu-ray. GI Joe won't. Period. Piracy has nothing to do with it.
You guys all missed the kicker in the fine print! This little nugget (from TFA):
So, you ain't getting JACK - aside from not having to download the entire movie. And a crappy hard drive for a premium price that you will format anyway.
Who's stupid enough to believe this assertion?
For the past 10 years, nearly everything coming out of Hollywood has been crap. There's no comparison between the industry today, and 20 years ago. It's non-stop mindless tripe, remakes of old movies, comic books, and TV shows. I can count on one hand the worthwhile films that have been released in the past 10 years.
This is what happens when business eats their own seed corn. Sure, at first you get inflated profits as viewer habits more slowly change (and the prisoner's dilemma keeps you on top until everyone else joins in) but audiences continue to decline, and Hollywood is showing no signs of changing... Odd, since massive success right now would make them a much more attractive investment...
Of course the declining DVD sales also couldn't have anything to do with the recession, or the shine coming off the DVD sales bubble as the technology is no longer new to anyone, and people wise-up to the endless tricks like "Director's Cut #5" and irritants like forced trailers and the like.
Honestly, how could movie sales NOT be declining right now?
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You said you, referring to me, which is incorrect. The correct answer is you.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler" - Einstein
Why did the article mentionned "falling DVD sales due to piracy"?
Why does every record company or movie producer blames piracy every time they lose a cent?
The logic that states "a stolen copy is a copy that is not bought" is complete fallacy.
I was referring to the person to whom I was replying.
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Wow. Clean, shaven and you got out into nature AND have mated! That’s already four more things, than any other Slashdotter ever did. ;)
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I'm unemployed, and not likely to ever get un-unemployed.
Send me a $100, and I'll send you a 500 Gig hard drive with * 100 * movies on it. All the Star Trek and the Star Wars films.
I'll fill the rest of the titles with general cool stuff like James Bond and Clint Eastwood. I'll even include some older great films like 'Black Sunday' (beautiful Marthe Keller as a Swiss-Palestinian terrorist telling wack-job vet Bruce Dern: 'Zer Ahre No Accidents!'); 'Marathon Man' ('Ees it safe? Dyou shoold take bezzer care of your teeth'); a few warm-hearted click flicks, a 40's Bogart or two ('here's looking at you, kid. We'll always have Paris'). Speaking of Paris, I'll include La Femme Nikita, Jules And Jim, and the original 1946 Beauty And The Beast. I'll even include "El Topo", which is the weirdest film that you have never heard of (just ask any 60-year-old stoner professor at your university)
Better deal for everyone than what you would get from Paramount Studios!!
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Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
Has the DMCA been proven in court? Has anyone been punished for circumventing CSS?
Several times.
This case has been highly cited by other courts ruling on the DMCA within and without the 2nd Circuit.
No courts outside of NY & the 2nd Circuit or California have addressed the DMCA, but it's highly unlikely given the language of the DMCA that another court is going to rule that breaking CSS is perfectly legal. Each of the courts that have addressed the constitutionality of the DMCA have upheld it on this matter, holding that code contains significant non-speech elements that can be regulated in a content-neutral fashion.
While these courts have focused on the DMCA with regards to the distribution of copy-protection circumventing software, it's worth rereading the DMCA:
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(A)
While no individual users have been charged for violating the DMCA, and it's highly unlikely that any individuals ever will be charged any time soon, it's still illegal to circumvent CSS to copy your own DVDs -- mostly. Universal City Studios explicitly disavows fair use as an exception to the law. See pp. 443-444. On the other hand, Realnetworks recognizes a fair use exception, but holds that fair use doesn't encompass wholesale space-shifting (i.e. copying your entire DVD for later viewing).See pp. 940-944.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Why would anyone buy a DVD when it's either based on a book you've already read (or Oprah told your wife to read) or it's a remake/reboot/reinvention of something you bought on DVD 10 years ago?
Currently Hollywood is remaking, reinventing or rebooting (some of these are just rumored, but most are confirmed to at least be on the drawing board): 10, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Adventures In Babysitting, Alien, American Graffiti, American Pie, Arthur, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, Back To School, Battle Royale, Better Off Dead, Brewster's Millions, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer (The movie. With the same director as the original), Can't Buy Me Love, Child's Play, Cliffhanger, Cloak And Dagger, Clue, Cocktail, Conan, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Daredevil, Death Wish, Dirty Dancing, Dream A Little Dream, Drop Dead Fred, Dune, Earth Girls Are Easy, Endless Love, Escape From New York, Explorers, Fantastic Four, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flash Gordon, Fletch, Flight Of The Navigator, Footloose, Fright Night, Ghostbusters, Gilligan's Island, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Goonies, Gotcha, Gremlins, Heathers, Hellraiser, Highlander, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Iron Eagle, Jurassic Park, La Femme Nikita, License To Drive, Little Shop Of Horrors, Logan’s Run (, Look Who's Talking, Meatballs, Monster Squad, My Fair Lady, National Lampoon's Vacation, Night Of The Comet, Pet Semetary, Planet Of The Apes, Point Break, Police Academy, Poltergeist, Porky's, Private Benjamin, Real Genius, Reanimator, Red Dawn, Robocop, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romancing The Stone, Rosemary's Baby, Scanners, Shocker, Short Circuit, Silent Night Deadly Night, Smokey And The Bandit, Spawn, Spider-Man, Spy Kids, Stand By Me, Stephen King's It, Summer School, Superman, Teen Witch, Teen Wolf, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, The Birds, The Black Hole, The Breakfast Club, The Crow, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Karate Kid, The Last Starfighter, The Lost Boys, The Neverending Story, The Pirates Of Penzance, The Thing, The Warriors, Thelma And Louise, They Live, Tomb Raider, Total Recall, Toxic Avenger, Tron, True Grit, Valley Girl, Weekend At Bernies, Weird Science, Where The Boys Are, Weird Science and I'm sure there's plenty more.
Why pay $17 to sit through 90 minutes of some dreadful book adaptation or 80s movie remake when I can pay $25 for 10 hours of Dexter or $50 for a season of 24? They're at least as good as anything Hollywood is pumping out, a far better value, and I don't have to deal with sticky floors and cell phones. And I've yet to see any TV DvDs pull the "10 minutes of ads before you can go to the main menu" stunt that half the new release movies I've bought seem to have these days.
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But I didn’t say you referring to evil_breeds. And the correct answer wasn’t me. So the quote didn’t fit.
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