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[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by WoodDraw

That kind of defeats the purpose of a streaming service, no?


I have to say I despise the way movies are going these days, as far as pricing. I can still buy a used dvd for cheaper than it costs digital. And that's DRM free. It's another area, along with television, that'll have to change within the next decade to keep up with the new world.

I think your getting a subscription service confused with a rental service. The subscription service stuff is cheap because its older titles or tv seasons a year or two old.

The new stuff is always going to cost more.
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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I think your getting a subscription service confused with a rental service. The subscription service stuff is cheap because its older titles or tv seasons a year or two old.

The new stuff is always going to cost more.
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No, he is saying that it should be cheaper to purchase a digital movie than to purchase a disk. Granted, he shouldn't expect a brand new digital movie purchase to be cheaper than a used disk copy though.

Right now, I still prefer to purchase the disk because I feel I get more for my money. Bluray, dvd and digital copy for $20 rather than just a digital copy for $15-$20. Plus saved bandwidth.

[WoodDraw]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I think your getting a subscription service confused with a rental service. The subscription service stuff is cheap because its older titles or tv seasons a year or two old.

The new stuff is always going to cost more.
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Well you brought it up. Pestilence wanted to know how the streaming library was, and you said you could "pay more" for new releases. Which is a bit like me asking you how Spotify is and you saying, "Yeah, it's great. You can just pay for everything they don't have."

Fragmentation in online streaming blows. The studios refuse to license a lot of times, or license exclusively (even back market stuff), or even worse, launch their own proprietary service. I dream of the day I can have a movie version of Spotify that reliably has most movies older than "x" years. But right now, they're still stuck on the old PPV/rental business model.


As for new stuff, I know it will cost more. Fine. Let me give you an example using Snow White and the Huntsman, because I just watched that the other day. Here are the prices:

Amazon DVD: $12.99 ($19.98 reg)
Digital download: $9.99
Digital rent: No option on Amazon or Google.
Buy used: Around $4, plus $4 shipping.


That's not the newest movie, I admit, and it takes awhile for the economics to work out. But that's why I still buy a lot of physical media. It's relatively DRM free, I get all of the extras that come with it, and it's normally cheaper or the same price of the digital copy. And once I own it, I can do whatever I please. I'd love to have a cloud solution to this, but none exists.

I've bought plenty of perfect condition used movies for less than it'd cost to rent it through my cable company.