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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
This 56-day period is after the movie is out of theaters and being released on DVD, then 56-days until it's available for rental through popular services like Netflix.
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Exactly.
So if I'm a teen kid and I want to be in the "in" crowd at school conversing about the newest "Twilight" movie...I'm going to have to go see it at the theater. Otherwise I will not be able to experience what everyone else is for 2 months.
The studios know that most people don't buy a lot of movies on DVD. So by doing it that way they are creating more of a "must see" at the theater.
For the last few years they have went the other way and put the movies out for rent in a couple of weeks. Been great for rental revenue I'm sure.
Now they want to take it back the other way.
Not a big deal and nobody is getting "screwed". When I was a kid a movie came out at the theater. There was NO cable t.v. or HBO or Blockbuster or NetFlix or any of that shit.
It would be over a YEAR later before you could see that movie on network television. And then it was a big deal. Anybody remember these words preceding a movie on network t.v. : "And now...the network television premiere of..."
Nobody is getting "screwed". They are simply trying to figure out the way to release a movie to different mediums and outlets that will optimize the profits.
If they NEVER release a movie except at the movie theater...the public still didn't get "screwed". They can just go see the damn movie in the theater the way it is designed to be seen.
