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LuckyMax · 01-30-2012, 08:45 AM

DJ...

When a company spend an average of 80M$-120M$ budget on a movie, I think they kind of own that movie and therefore, they can do whatever they want with it in order to make the most out of their investment.

Setting predefine windows of realease per media and revenues channels is what any business would define as a good commercial pratices in product life cycle management. Can I remind you that those guys are in the business of maximizing an ROI on an earlier investment, not so much pm pleasing the the customer, even less pleasing the portion of people who are low paying customer. They want to give added value to the one paying top money at first place (Theater customer and DVD buyers), the digital viewers at the long tale and the lowest share of profit by far. By pushing those later down the road, you are in fact giving higher value to the other ones to which you can more easily justify the premium you are asking for. By making 4X more money with the one who buy the DVD than the one who downloads, I think they are in their right of saying "dude, you want to download, fine, but wait for your turn..."

The situation here is that you are a smart tech savy webmaster that generalize his tech skills and personal opinion on the rest of the 99% of average customer out there. You are entitle to your opinion that is based on your own personal experience, but this does not legitimize you to say that these rightful right owners (the studios) are "screwing up" their customer.

By the way, if you are so sure of the concept, why don't you go away, take a loan, shoot for over half a million of content, skipping the the highly profitable DVD phase, put the content both online AND on DVD at the same time, while charging a very high price for download, hope that some affiliate will dare send traffic at your ridiculously low PPS (because you cannot offer more because your ) and try to invest in anti-piracy to prevent those poor offended customer who are downloading pirated version of your content and offering it for free on torrent with the argument that you are screwing them for selling a digital version higher than the DVD at the first place and calling you a dinosaur who missed the digital revolution to justify their logic.

Seriously, go ahead, I'll take notes of the experience...

Bottom line, easy to talk when it's not your money...

01-30-2012, 08:45 AM
LuckyMax Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 55	DJ... When a company spend an average of 80M$-120M$ budget on a movie, I think they kind of own that movie and therefore, they can do whatever they want with it in order to make the most out of their investment. Setting predefine windows of realease per media and revenues channels is what any business would define as a good commercial pratices in product life cycle management. Can I remind you that those guys are in the business of maximizing an ROI on an earlier investment, not so much pm pleasing the the customer, even less pleasing the portion of people who are low paying customer. They want to give added value to the one paying top money at first place (Theater customer and DVD buyers), the digital viewers at the long tale and the lowest share of profit by far. By pushing those later down the road, you are in fact giving higher value to the other ones to which you can more easily justify the premium you are asking for. By making 4X more money with the one who buy the DVD than the one who downloads, I think they are in their right of saying "dude, you want to download, fine, but wait for your turn..." The situation here is that you are a smart tech savy webmaster that generalize his tech skills and personal opinion on the rest of the 99% of average customer out there. You are entitle to your opinion that is based on your own personal experience, but this does not legitimize you to say that these rightful right owners (the studios) are "screwing up" their customer. By the way, if you are so sure of the concept, why don't you go away, take a loan, shoot for over half a million of content, skipping the the highly profitable DVD phase, put the content both online AND on DVD at the same time, while charging a very high price for download, hope that some affiliate will dare send traffic at your ridiculously low PPS (because you cannot offer more because your ) and try to invest in anti-piracy to prevent those poor offended customer who are downloading pirated version of your content and offering it for free on torrent with the argument that you are screwing them for selling a digital version higher than the DVD at the first place and calling you a dinosaur who missed the digital revolution to justify their logic. Seriously, go ahead, I'll take notes of the experience... Bottom line, easy to talk when it's not your money...