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This isn't canonically true is it; if more people consume more media at $1 per go you could make back much more than you loose by charging £25 that very few peo

This isn't canonically true is it; if more people consume more media at $1 per go you could make back much more than you loose by charging £25 that very few people pay for new Blu ray disks.

prebrov 10y ago
It's also about effort per buck earned. A single exclusive deal for a season of Game of Thrones for a specific release window with a local/regional PayTV provider brings in, say, ten million bucks. And you make this deal in a nice 3 Michelin Star restaurant. Compare that with actually delivering 10 million streams to end users, on iPhones, iPads, Androids, AppleTVs, Chromecasts, [edited: with] payment gateways and support for technically challenged people.
- andy_ppp 10y ago
  Delivering 10m streams to the end user is a solved problem; just pay to transcode your video. The point is to avoid even streaming - let people download films, no drm, for a buck (maybe 2 bucks for 4k) and trust most people not to steal.
rhino369 10y ago
How sure are you that more than 25X people will pay for a 1 dollar movie? Because that sounds way high to me. Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't. And the movie industry taps this demand in other ways. They eventually sell the movie to netflix/amazon/tv station.
- collyw 10y ago
  >Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't. They don't need to watch more, just start paying for what they watch.
- andy_ppp 10y ago
  Until it's tried no-one can be sure either way... most people would have thought Spotify was a crazy idea until someone made it happen...
  - rhino369 10y ago
    There are real costs to just trying it. People have an idea of what media is "worth." If you set the price too low, it's nearly impossible to get it up higher. It's been hard to get people to accept iOS apps should be more than a 99 cents.
    - andy_ppp 10y ago
      iOS AppStore revenue for US in 2016 is $28bn according to this article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-app-store-2016-revenue-tops-28-billion-mark-developers-net-20-billion/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-app-store-2016-revenue-t... The whole of DVD and BluRay sales is a poultry 13bn dollars: http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/home-entertainment-spending-2015-studios-1201673329/ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/home-entertainment-spen... So I guess your ideas about the App Store are wrong or cheap yields loads of revenue... Hey, when selling more is essentially free sell more, right? Just to hate on AMP a little more it took me 3-4 times longer to unampify the bloody URLs on those links.

This isn't canonically true is it; if more people consume more media at $1 per go you could make back much more than you loose by charging £25 that very few people pay for new Blu ray disks.

prebrov 10y ago

It's also about effort per buck earned. A single exclusive deal for a season of Game of Thrones for a specific release window with a local/regional PayTV provider brings in, say, ten million bucks. And you make this deal in a nice 3 Michelin Star restaurant. Compare that with actually delivering 10 million streams to end users, on iPhones, iPads, Androids, AppleTVs, Chromecasts, [edited: with] payment gateways and support for technically challenged people.

andy_ppp 10y ago
Delivering 10m streams to the end user is a solved problem; just pay to transcode your video. The point is to avoid even streaming - let people download films, no drm, for a buck (maybe 2 bucks for 4k) and trust most people not to steal.

rhino369 10y ago

How sure are you that more than 25X people will pay for a 1 dollar movie? Because that sounds way high to me. Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't. And the movie industry taps this demand in other ways. They eventually sell the movie to netflix/amazon/tv station.

collyw 10y ago
>Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't. They don't need to watch more, just start paying for what they watch.
andy_ppp 10y ago
Until it's tried no-one can be sure either way... most people would have thought Spotify was a crazy idea until someone made it happen...
- rhino369 10y ago
  There are real costs to just trying it. People have an idea of what media is "worth." If you set the price too low, it's nearly impossible to get it up higher. It's been hard to get people to accept iOS apps should be more than a 99 cents.
  - andy_ppp 10y ago
    iOS AppStore revenue for US in 2016 is $28bn according to this article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-app-store-2016-revenue-tops-28-billion-mark-developers-net-20-billion/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-app-store-2016-revenue-t... The whole of DVD and BluRay sales is a poultry 13bn dollars: http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/home-entertainment-spending-2015-studios-1201673329/ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/home-entertainment-spen... So I guess your ideas about the App Store are wrong or cheap yields loads of revenue... Hey, when selling more is essentially free sell more, right? Just to hate on AMP a little more it took me 3-4 times longer to unampify the bloody URLs on those links.