Warner Bros to sell discount DVDs to fight piracy

[SelArom]

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WB is going to start selling "Basic DVDs" (no extras, just the film) in China in an effort to combat piracy for as little as 22 yuan ($2.65 USD!) to fight piracy. The will be avaialbe "shortly after a film's theatrical release" and versions with more features will be avaiable a short time later for 28 yuan ($3.38).

Holy crap why don't they do that here? I'd love to get a move for $2.65! WB response?

As for how Warner would justify charging U.S. consumers far more for DVDs, "I don't that's an issue," Caldwell said. "I think that historically, prices of entertainment around the world have always been different country to country."

in other words, they're not losing as much money here so screw us we can pay more. But hey, it's a start

 

[nakedfrog]

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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

 

[badmouse]

Time to encourage piracy here in the US?? What a screwed-up way of thanking your customers.

 

[Torghn]

Good thing you can get regonless DVD players. Time to start importing DVDs.

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: badmouse
Time to encourage piracy here in the US?? What a screwed-up way of thanking your customers.

they can just sue individuals here. they can't in china.

 

[Viper GTS]

Funny, they do the same thing here & charge more for it (SuperBit).

Viper GTS

 

[acemcmac]

Movie and music pirating starves the worlds largest largest brainwashing consortium of its funding. If the funding issue gets bad enough, the system that lets "the rich and famous" live like royalty, music videos and the entire orchestrating arm of disposable culture (MTV, Cable news, the movie industry, etc) will collapse on itself. Those "poor background people" who have families to feed, etc, will have to go out and get real jobs contributing to society in a positive way and our kids will have to look for role models elsewhere.

Piracy will set us free.

This just shows the media industry for its true, two-faced self

 

[notfred]

Now we just need to raise US piracy to Chinese levels.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Funny, they do the same thing here & charge more for it (SuperBit).

Viper GTS

LOL. So very true... :frown:

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: notfred
Now we just need to raise US piracy to Chinese levels.

<--- Fires up BT

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
Movie and music pirating starves the worlds largest largest brainwashing consortium of its funding. If the funding issue gets bad enough, the system that lets "the rich and famous" live like royalty, music videos and the entire orchestrating arm of disposable culture (MTV, Cable news, the movie industry, etc) will collapse on itself. Those "poor background people" who have families to feed, etc, will have to go out and get real jobs contributing to society in a positive way and our kids will have to look for role models elsewhere.

Piracy will set us free.

This just shows the media industry for its true, two-faced self

So, you advocate killing an industry that generates billions in sales, much of that overseas, on the basis of your ridiculous moral/cultural beliefs and apparent envy of their success?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Torghn
Good thing you can get regonless DVD players. Time to start importing DVDs.

Shipping would probably make it less of a good deal.

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Funny, they do the same thing here & charge more for it (SuperBit).

Viper GTS

That's funny, I hadn't even thought about that.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

That's wonderful. I love it when theives get rewarded and honest consumers get screwed. Warms my heart.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

yeha thats definitely an awesome concept!

 

[BurnItDwn]

damn, 2.65 per movie ... I would need to buy a LOT more shelving to store all the DVD's I would be buying. I'd probably buy at least 10 DVDs per week, every week ... at that price. Now I'm lucky if I buy more than 2 or 3 in a week ...

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

The term "good" is subjective.

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

And maybe a little for the higher ups in the company along the way... 😉

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Fixed link
That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

The term "good" is subjective.

sorry, "good movies" wasn't my point (although with all the CRAP coming out now, it's a nice thing to wish for). i should have said if only making money wasn't their priority. I thought that was implied but I guess I wasn't clear. won't happen again.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

The term "good" is subjective.

sorry, "good movies" wasn't my point (although with all the CRAP coming out now, it's a nice thing to wish for). i should have said if only making money wasn't their priority. I thought that was implied but I guess I wasn't clear. won't happen again.

It is a business first and foremost after all, so naturally that should be their first concern.

There have always been "filler" films out there and that is just another one of them. Not everything can be a blockbuster epic. It is usually sufficient for the film to be mildly entertaining or interesting.

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

The term "good" is subjective.

sorry, "good movies" wasn't my point (although with all the CRAP coming out now, it's a nice thing to wish for). i should have said if only making money wasn't their priority. I thought that was implied but I guess I wasn't clear. won't happen again.

It is a business first and foremost after all, so naturally that should be their first concern.

There have always been "filler" films out there and that is just another one of them. Not everything can be a blockbuster epic. It is usually sufficient for the film to be mildly entertaining or interesting.

well, I'm not saying it's not true that it's a business. I'm saying it shouldn't be. why does everything have to be about making money? also, it seems that nowadays the good movies are the "filler", at least theatrically, because there's a whole lotta crap out there...

anyway, migrating this discussion back to the topic, House of the Dead retails for $18 (though you can find it used for about 50 cents, or probably most people would pay you to take it off their hands). Offering it for $2.65 could go a long way to combat piracy of this crappenfest of a movie. ahhhh well waht good does it do to argue about it. i ain't a hollywood exec and neither are you so neither of us can do anything about it...

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Fixed link
That sucks. I'd love to pay $2.65 to DL just the movie in DVD quality.

Werd.....I don't think they will ever get it here in America. The MPAA will never allow that since the heads are making too much money off of the Movie companies stupidity.

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you're talking about. The MPAA is merely a trade organization of studios with similar interests. Warner Brothers is a member of the MPAA, as are all the other studios. So the MPAA can't "allow" WB to do anything.

There are no "heads making too much money". Movie studios are corporations with stocks and shareholders just like every other company. The mission of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

yes, well i'm talking about reality, not what we all wish could be the case.
"good" is an unquanitfiable and subjective goal to get business people to understand. personally, i loved Royal Tenenbaums, but most of middle america didn't get it and it didn't turn a huge profit. but... the same studio that made Pearl Harbor also made Tenenbaums, so at least they're using their crap blockbusters to subsidize their smaller art films.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: SelArom

damn! oh if only if only if only their goal was to make good movies!

The term "good" is subjective.

sorry, "good movies" wasn't my point (although with all the CRAP coming out now, it's a nice thing to wish for). i should have said if only making money wasn't their priority. I thought that was implied but I guess I wasn't clear. won't happen again.

It is a business first and foremost after all, so naturally that should be their first concern.

There have always been "filler" films out there and that is just another one of them. Not everything can be a blockbuster epic. It is usually sufficient for the film to be mildly entertaining or interesting.

well, I'm not saying it's not true that it's a business. I'm saying it shouldn't be. why does everything have to be about making money? also, it seems that nowadays the good movies are the "filler", at least theatrically, because there's a whole lotta crap out there...

anyway, migrating this discussion back to the topic, House of the Dead retails for $18 (though you can find it used for about 50 cents, or probably most people would pay you to take it off their hands). Offering it for $2.65 could go a long way to combat piracy of this crappenfest of a movie. ahhhh well waht good does it do to argue about it. i ain't a hollywood exec and neither are you so neither of us can do anything about it...

A lot of excellent (IMO) film still does come out of Hollywood though, so I think it is important to keep perspective. Several studios have also recently opened divisions to specialize in independent and foreign films.

As far as DVDs go, the prices are at the level they are now because the public has proven that they will pay it, what the market can bear. This is the case with every other product. Since there is not as yet a realistic option to digitally distribute films over the internet that could alleviate the studio?s piracy concerns, I think it will be some time before we see that happening.