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It also boils down to the prices they try to charges you for dematerialized goods. While music and videogames industries now seems to have find a good balance,
by Twisell 10y ago
It also boils down to the prices they try to charges you for dematerialized goods. While music and videogames industries now seems to have find a good balance, Tv/movies is lagging behind.(except Netflix)
Do they really expect me to spend $80+ in order to introduce starwars to my kids while my father bough them on VHS and my brother on DVD?
(And that not even counting all the merch bough alongside...)
- coredog64 10y agoThe original Star Wars VHS was $99. Not only is that a lot of money today, it was a phenomenal sum back in the early 80s when the product was released.
- ghaff 10y agoA lot of VHS pricing for a long time followed a price to rent at first release (i.e. video rental stores would pay a high price during the prime new release rental period) with the price dropping after some period so that individuals would buy it. Pricing was higher overall but it wasn't that high in general.
- gpawl 10y agoIf you have a VHS and a DVD player, you don't need to pay $80 to play those movies.
- Twisell 10y agoAnd that's what I did, but I would gladly have paid a few bucks or give a % of my monthly Netflix subscription to spare me the slow conversion from DVD to MP4 (because I only have an AppleTV and yes converting owned content is legal in my country)