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Poll: Your thoughts on DVD rental pricing?

Aves

Aves

Lifer
In case you don't know what DVD Rental Pricing is, it's basically not selling a DVD outright when it first comes out. Only after it's been available for rent for several months can a consumer actually purchase the film. This is already done with VHS. Originally the idea was that DVD would be sell through priced like it is now, but apparently studios are starting to get greedy. Warner Brothers is supporting this and of course Blockbuster is backing it. I just wondered what others thought of this. Read the article and visit the The Digital Bits for more info.

VideoStore Magazine Article

The Digital Bits
 
It would really, really piss off consumers and retailers alike.

I just might rip to DivX if they did this. According to your first link the rental would just be the video, why the hell should I be a peon to a greedy corporation when I should just rip it to VCD and be done with it. I haven't done it before but it can't be that hard, and my DVD player plays VCDs

The MPAA can suck my **** as it is now. If they do they they can toss my salad.
 
Can you say MPEG4? Yeah it may take 7 hours to encode it, but with Flask even a monky can make decent DivX file and put it on a CD. If you have a high speed internet connection you can just trade one you made last week for a movie not even for rent yet.
 
I know what you mean. I've established I nice collection of DVD's just because I could buy them immediately. Now they want me to rent the video only version and then buy a special edition DVD half a year down the road. Screw that. Best Buy is opposed to rental pricing and says it will carry fewer titles and fewer copies if this happens. Not that the studios care.
 
By the time this becomes widespread and enforced, wouldn't DVD-R's be quite common? Their on the new compaqs already arent they?
 
DVD-R drives are just now being released to Sony it appears. This should help to make their theory of 'renting for more money at first' very interesting to say the least.

Info on DVD-R drives found at CDR-Info
 
I cant even remember the last time i rented a movie (vhs or DVD). If a movie that is from what i hear from alot of ppl to be good i simply buy it and watch it and so far i havent been screwed on a movie i didnt like yet with this method of buying (knock on wood). Way i look at this is, why waste the cash to rent it when for like $10 more i can own it and if worst comes to worst i can sell it to someone that wants it for a few bucks off.

Kao
 
It doesnt really piss me off since i always wait for sell prices on the movies. I do think it is a rip off. We need to find out how much their execs are making and how much they are asking for next year.
 
dang!...this is whack...bunch of greedy mofos...it's so much cheaper to make the DVDs than it is VHS and yet they never wanna share the benefits....ahhh capitalism....

if they wanted to do this, they shoulda done it in the beginning of DVD usage, not contemplate and push for it now when we all are already used to the way things are...it's like drugs..at first it's cheap and now they hiking the price....fvckers!...
 
dvd-r drives have been around for a while. they used to cost $2000... now like $1000.

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as for rental pricing, i am aware of this practice, learned with VHS.

i am against it as it means i can't own and must rent. it's a conspiracy of sorts.
 
yea, they better not piss off their loyal customers.. been happy with them so far.. special features etc have been good for consumer.

would suck having to shell like 4 bux to rent a stripped dvd...thats just...lame
 
"Right now I?m in favor of a sellthrough price and just letting people buy what they want," Scavelli says. "But as the mass majority, the average consumer, becomes a DVD customer and as DVD replaces VHS, at some point I think it is in the industry?s and in the consumer?s best interest if the price is raised a little higher, maybe $39 or $49 retail, with dealer prices in the $25 to $30 range.

"This way, real movie lovers can buy it if they really want to buy it, but retailers can still have that rental window because most consumers do not have the disposable income, nor the desire, to own most of the movies they?d like to watch."

How exactly is this in the consumer's best interest?
 
Yeah how is that possibly in a consumer's best interest? If DVDs cost $39/$49 their sales to consumer would go through the floor. Theres a big difference between $15-25 and $40-50!
 


<< I do think it is a rip off. We need to find out how much their execs are making and how much they are asking for next year. >>



And do what?
 
This isnt new, they did it with Fight Club. It was released a month for rental only and then the special edition came out. Yes this will suck but theres nothing you can do about it except wait.
 


<< HP, and NEC also have released comps w/ DVD-R's at a pretty reasonable price..I'll post the link in a sec. >>

I think the price of the blank DVD-R's are pretty pricey though, but I'm sure it'll drop in price like CD-R's did.

Waiting 90 days after DVD's are already released for rental might back fire since people might no longer wish to buy the movie. I would no longer buy all DVD's but only the movies I really enjoyed. And so far, the movies have been so crappy that I would be saving a lot by paying only $3-4 for a rental than paying $15 to buy it.

<< This isnt new, they did it with Fight Club. It was released a month for rental only and then the special edition came out. >>

Crap!!! They already know which ones people are willing to buy even after watching it several times!
 
As much as I love all my ~70 DVDs, if they start doing that sh*t I'll stop the whole DVD thing all together. Bastards won't get any of my fvcking money.
 
it SUPERDOOPERSUCKS!!!! What a load. DVD's are already priced too high. After all, the studios already made millions on the theatrical release... and now they are tryin' to clean us outta more cash. UGH.

The movie industry is SUCK. They need to quit paying all the people so much &amp;*!@ money. I mean... when an actor gets $20M per movie... sheesh. Come on'. It's not like they helped world peace, came up with a cure for AIDS/cancer, or invented a perpetual motion device.

EDIT: I read the artical, and I always wondered why if you lost a VHS tape, they'd charge you $70 for a new one... even though you could go buy the VHS tape at best buy for $15. What's up with that?? The artical never really explains that!! Why don't video stores do to VHS what they are now doing with DVD... just go buy the item from another store, adn then rent it out!!! What the heck is the deal with them having to pay 2-3x more for a &quot;rental rev.-sharing tape&quot;. What a load. The MPAA and all those overpaid whiners really p**s me off. Ugh.
 


<< Yeah how is that possibly in a consumer's best interest? If DVDs cost $39/$49 their sales to consumer would go through the floor. Theres a big difference between $15-25 and $40-50! >>



Yup... I would never again buy a DVD if they are $40+. I have a hard enuff time buying them at $20+, becuase I know they cost $1-2 to make... and the rest is just going to a bunch of people's profits and pockets, and none of those people are me.
 
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