The reality of DVD vs Blu Ray vs Digital Distibution. As of October 20 2009

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joeorc said:

pastro243 said:

sega4life said:

 

CD to MP3 syndrome..

Remember when people said MP3's would never over take CD's.

I remember my friends and people saying they need to have the CD case and the lyrics..

I also remember CD's being $11.99 when they first came out, but then they went to $19.99, and would only have one or two songs worth listening to, and then started to not have lyrics in the case.

Now look at MP3's. When you download an MP3, you get the box art and you can upload lyrics to your MP3 player as well.

I haven't step foot in a Music store in years, heck I never even walk down the music isle in Wal*Mart..


I never thought I would stop buying DvD's, but I was looking at my DvD/Blu-ray collection and noticing the last movie I got was Batman on Blu-ray for X-Mas, that has never happened, I was always buying movies the day they came out every other week I would have a new movie.

 

that is because we download music for free, if Im going to pay for music I prefer having a CD.

The same for movies, I just download them and watch them then erase them, if I wanted to buy a movie, an HD movie, I would want phisical media.

yup having a digital copy of music is not viewed as something that holds great value after market also because iTUNES and other digital download services lowered the price to less than a $1.00 a song, the same would happen to movies. thus do you think Hollywood is in that much of a hurry to devalue their movies they spent Million's on?

Packaging, Shipping, making the dvd, and putting the information on the dvd costs a fair amount of money.  So if a large movie studio can make $3 or $4 profit from a DD they will be making a decent profit.  So I don't see why they wouldn't want to jump on board.  

I don't see them distributing movies for under $3.99 at first.  And if you use tv episodes as an example, maybe they let you have a single episode for $1.  They could easily make more money on a tv series through DD than they would selling you the physical media for $49 or less per season.