Re: Anyone else noticed that movies are on DVD almost immediately after theater relea
mooo said:
Lastly, I was a projectionist, what really happens is the theaters pay to rent the print from the movie studio's.. Once the theater sales enough tickets to pay for the rent of the film they start to make money on the film and to pay the, employee's its from consession and advertisement. The Movie Companies will still make the cash no matter what, the actual people who are hurting are the theater chains.
I'm actually aware of this aspect; as well as why we end up paying exhorborant prices for concessions. I mean things like $3.75 for a cup of soda we could get at McDonalds for $1.50, or 7/11 a larger cup for $1.
Thing is, even with the ticket sales, the production companies are still not making back the cost of movie production (with some ranging in the 10s of millions of dollars); and so now depend on the foreign theater market, and DVD sales to try to make some of it back. Whereas it was once considered a bonus, it's now necessary to break even. Yeah, one semester with a communications course required for my comp networking major, I took a course in mass media studies.
VenomXT said:
this is acually the strat they are thinking. this and the fact that DVD sales in the short term can push a movie up while the "freshness on the end consumers minds" is still there.
Well, the only thing with DVD sales from the consumers side is three things:
- cost
- space
And combining these with the fact that given both are limited, one doesn't necessarily want to own everything one might chose to see. Though I myself typically only download TV shows (which are on the air waves anyway) or shows available in foreign markets (for instance the new Doctor Who that just started showing earlier this year); it's simply not available on any of the channels provided by Comcast, even giving my subscription to digital cable with all the premium channels (aka the platnum) package being "beemed" into my home. However, I delete upon viewing...
Still, what I tend to buy, are things I liked enough to feel it warrants my owning. Even without question of cost, my apt is only 650 sq. ft. I simply don't have enough room to store what I don't feel good enough to actually keep...