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Do you have numbers on year-over-year sales for DVDs? While they're still big, I would assume that they're declining.I think what the parent commenter was tryi
by joelrunyon 15y ago
Do you have numbers on year-over-year sales for DVDs?
While they're still big, I would assume that they're declining.I think what the parent commenter was trying to make as the streaming is how people are going to be consuming information. Not everyone's there yet, of course, but thats where things are shifting to.
It would make sense for MPAA to set itself up to succeed in the coming world where the majority of people want to stream their entertainment,rather than trying to preserve a model that is slowly being phased out.
- dangrossman 15y agoWhat would make sense is to set itself up to succeed in the streaming world AND try to preserve a model that is slowly being phased out. Which, unsurprisingly, is exactly what they're doing. They ARE licensing movies to Netflix, Amazon VOD/Prime, iTunes, Hulu, etc. after all. They're just picking and choosing what parts of their catalog to stream and when to offer it such that it won't cannibalize the revenue from DVD sales and other sources they don't need to give up yet. All they have to do to maximize revenue in the coming world is to shift timelines -- release more movies faster on the streaming services as the effect of doing so has less of an effect on other distribution channels.
- joelrunyon 15y agoI would agree with you, but they're trying to preserve the dying model's functions in the new model, which doesn't operate like that. I completely agree with you, that doing something like you mentioned makes sense, but it doesn't excuse them from trying to censor the internet, buy congress and be an online bully that gets to take down entire sites for actions their users have done.