Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/12/06 10:55

In article <wP0xf.3898$5g1.3005@fe02.lga>, Joseph S. Powell, III
<nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

>Back in the day, when this Newsgroup was still fairly new and
>Norm Wilner was the "DVD Guru", there were some people who "stood
>up" and argued that DVD's need Rental Pricing, that is, the
>policy that a movie released on a format, should be priced very
>high for the first few months (around $60-$70.00) so that the
>"video rental stores" could make their bucks; if you wanted
>to have the DVD right away, fine, but you would pay the high
>premium, wheras if you waited a few months, it'd be $20-$25.00 or
>so.

The owners of the films released to DVD found they could make much
much much more money by releasing DVDs direct to the end use at low
affordable prices.

Their only reason to exist it to make money - and selling high to
rentals and lower months later didn't bring that much money. They
found that out when they started pricing a vew VHS at low prices.

The studios have no reason to help the video rental stores, which
only existed because of the draconian policies first put in place
by the studios because they never understtood any concept other
than they owned the films and put them out to theatres to rent.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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