Discs with entire seasons of shows would be cheaper than the current ones
I wouldn't count on it... When you purchase episodes of a television show, the bulk of the price you pay isn't going for the little plastic discs upon which the bits are etched. You're paying for the IP. A new format with higher-capacity media is unlikely to convince the content producers to charge less for their IP.
Congratulations, you have failed to read the article.
Umm...Well, whether or not the grandparent poster read the article, I can't say for certain. However, it would appear *you* didn't read the article very carefully:
[From the NYT article, emphasis added...]
The paying sites will be
intermingled with others in Yahoo's main search results listings, which are separate from the advertising called "sponsor results" on top of and to the side of Yahoo's search results.
You're right - *typically* + signs don't do anything since Google searches as "must include", however there are some commonly used words which will be automatically excluded, unless you use the + sign before them.
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I wouldn't count on it... When you purchase episodes of a television show, the bulk of the price you pay isn't going for the little plastic discs upon which the bits are etched. You're paying for the IP. A new format with higher-capacity media is unlikely to convince the content producers to charge less for their IP.
Umm...Well, whether or not the grandparent poster read the article, I can't say for certain. However, it would appear *you* didn't read the article very carefully:
[From the NYT article, emphasis added...]
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