Posted by Joshua Zyber on 10/21/06 13:14

"Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Well, the studio probably wants people to actually PAY for
>> Spider-Man. No sense in giving that one away for free.
>
> Well, the point IS giving them away for free--As in, "First one's..."
>
> Very few 15-24's would have considered buying a DVD player before they
> found out their PS2's played them, and nobody was even picturing the
> PSP as a mini-player until studios tried to push UMD's on us....But
> the fact that you could watch Spiderman on your PSP straight out of
> the box, gave you the idea pretty quickly.

Yes, but if you're going to give something away for free, better it be a
moderately popular comedy that many people would probably watch if
handed to them but otherwise have probably already forgotten about by
now. Spider-man is something people might actually be willing to pay
for.

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