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Las Vegas Dave
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2 posted on
04/22/2008 3:57:26 PM PDT by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Instead of being an improvement in product, the industry has taken the transition to HD as a chance to change their business model.
Their revenue has gone down, rather than looking at their product and realizing that most of their movies hold no interest to the majority of people, they have tried do come up with a way to make more money with a generally lousy product.
We have seen it in the theaters, they are taking more and more money from the theaters leading to $5 cokes and candy.
Now they desperately want us to buy $500 players and spend $30 per disc on lousy movies. They forced Blu-Ray/HD DVD war outcome giving us the more expensive alternative.
Well they have had the opposite effect on me. I no longer buy day and date movies. I may rent a movie if it sounds good and then wait and buy used.
If a movie is HD worthy, I wait until it is on TV, record it with my computer and watch it on my media player.
Well their business model has an upside, my movie budget has gone way down leaving more money in my pocket.
4 posted on
04/22/2008 4:24:56 PM PDT by
dangerdoc
(dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
To: Las Vegas Dave
I checked out NetFlix and didn't find them to be much of a savings on regular DVD's. As for Blue Ray, my Hollywood Video has one small rack of them and they of course are more expensive than the regular DVD's.
In my opinion, the escalated price for renting the BR's is BS.........DVDs on my Pioneer plasma are just fine and so I'm not about to go into overkill for the sake of BR.
Additionally, I'm now in the habit of getting my DVDs from my local library. Granted, what I pick up are older but at least they are free..........
5 posted on
04/22/2008 5:15:08 PM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(My company's union supported Granholm...we all lost our jobs.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
In other words, Hastings is saying that it's okay to gouge the high-def owner a bit because he/she is used to being gouged a bit.
So using his analogy it's okay to also gouge car owners on insurance rates, auto repairs since they are being gouges on gas prices. This is not capitalism, this is pure greed.
To: Las Vegas Dave
There are fewer blu-ray titles and fewer blu-ray customers than the general public. It presents an investment in non-compatible discs.
Where is the start up company that only offers blu-ray discs and what is there monthly service fee?
9 posted on
04/22/2008 6:25:23 PM PDT by
weegee
(Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
That’s what happens when you eliminate the competition (HD-DVD). With only 1 alternative, prices were bound to go up. No surprise here.
12 posted on
04/23/2008 4:22:17 AM PDT by
Hurricane Andrew
(History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
What business owner doesn’t charge every penny they can for a product?
13 posted on
04/23/2008 4:30:32 AM PDT by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Sorry, Netflix. I LOVE your service, but my upconverting DVD player does a decent job on making regular DVD’s look good on my LCD, so I don’t care about Blu Ray.
14 posted on
04/23/2008 7:26:58 AM PDT by
Born Conservative
(Visit my blog: Chronic Positivity - http://www.chronicpositivity.com)
To: Las Vegas Dave
This is too bad.
Netflix actually lowered my monthly bill a few months ago.
Never seen that before.
15 posted on
04/23/2008 8:01:54 AM PDT by
mowowie
To: Las Vegas Dave
I dropped them long ago for “throttling”.
16 posted on
04/23/2008 8:51:27 AM PDT by
JZelle
To: Las Vegas Dave
I dropped Netflix after many years when they dumped HD DVD. I had several HD DVD titles in my queue at the time, and they were changed to SD DVD. Some were new releases that I wanted to preview before buying or not (Assassination of Jesse James, American Gangster, etc).
I went over to Blockbuster Online, and was able to rent them there. Indeed, I have rented several HD DVD titles since switching. This new Blu-Ray plan of Netflix' does not look promising either. I'm glad I am rid of them.
To: Las Vegas Dave
BR discs cost them more to buy, it’s not gouging to send the costs to the customer.
To: Las Vegas Dave
One response will be to boost fees for next-generation services. Chief Executive Reed Hastings said in a conference call that Netflix will be charging more to rent Blu-Ray discs starting later this year, though he didn't offer specifics. "As you are aware, purchasing Blu-ray DVDs costs more both at retail and wholesale than standard-definition DVDs," Hastings said. As a result, "Consumers are used to paying more for high-definition content in every other channel, including video rental stores, video-on-demand, and cable channels." There's the full quote... They have to buy more expensive content, they are going to pass it along to the consumer... nothing nepharious about it. And even with its increase, its still the best deal in town.. Blockbuster has already anounced it plans to raise its rental fees across the board later this year.
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