LOL

These people are ******ed. I always thought they could make a ****load of money by putting movies currently in theaters into an on-demand cable service for a price similar to what a movie ticket would cost. Say $8-$14. Movies that used to make 20 million on opening weekend would make 40-50 million. Why are they so resistant to this? Do they get a huge cut of popcorn/candy/soda sales at theaters or something? LOL at $30 for a pay-per-view movie.

Hint: More than one person can fit on a couch.

Yeah there's clearly times it will be +EV to spend even $30 a movie. There's no way that hurts Netflix though.

They'd still make more money charging 8-14 for on demand. The base of customers that would spend $30 for a pay-per-view is pretty much the same group of people that would actually go see the movie in a theater. If some one is willing to add 30 bucks onto their cable bill so they can watch whatever movie, they would probably go see it in the theater if pay-per-view wasn't available. By making it cost the same as a single movie ticket, they'll attract customers that would never even consider seeing the movie in a theater. All of the people who are sort of interested in a movie, but decide wait for it to be out on DVD or HBO or whatever would seriously consider paying extra to see the movie immediately.

They'll lose quite a few theater customers, but they'll sell many more viewings overall. People who would go see 1 or 2 movies a month at the theater would likely order 5-6 on cable. People who rarely ever go out to the movies would become steady customers.

Studios would lose on big blockbusters that everyone goes to see like Avatar, but they'd make a ton more money on all the mediocre-selling movies they put out.

psh... who has time for friends?

$30 is too much money for the average consumer. For $30 you can go to the movies, and see a movie on the big screen.

I just bought an XBox this week and switched the majority of my streaming from Wii to it and the difference is unbelievable. My Wii would have streaming interruptions so often i gave up on trying to stream on it.

In 5 days I have had exactly 1 video get interrupted as compared to at least 1 or 2 a day with the Wii. Even my PC has not been as reliable as my Xbox.

xbox>ps3>>>>wii

my stupid ps3 disk has been bugging out, so had to get another one send

Lots of new additions today

They said the price goes up to 30$ not that all of them are that price


also yeah for BSG been meaning to check that out, and also they added newest season of 30 rock!

thnx added Starship Troopers and Louisiana Story to the watch insta queue

They said they were adding the entire NBC DVD library and its channels, USA, SyFy etc. Oct 1. I see a ton of new History and Discovery shows as well.

also curious about high school hellcats, would def check it out, if nudity was guaranteed.

battlestar galactica!

i knocked out season 1 of prison break the past few days.

Don't watch anymore.

Inland Empire>Mulholland Drive imo.

qft

I'd much rather pay $30 for me and my girlfriend to be able to watch a new movie on our couch than $20 to see it in a theater. I bet there are a lot of people like me.

they skip from season 1-5 of SNL to like 36, missing all the sandberg, carvey, mcdonald, farley, hartman years

That takes balls to say. I wouldn't recommend that to a Lynch noob though.

Yea they've had the first few plus the recent few plus "Best Of"s for a long time, that's nothing new.

i think Netflix Canada doesn't want me to watch the new show, Running Wilde. 5 minutes into the first episode it keeps crashing. =/

The last I heard about this was that the movies were not going to be actually brand new, as in playing at the actual theatre. So if you were to just wait a few months more you would be able to actually buy the movie, and own it for life with the ability to watch it anytime you want.

Watching a movie at home vs at a theatre are two different experiences. bigger screen, better picture, and louder sound. People are getting ripped off ten dollars because the quality isn't the same.

I'm not a huge anime fan, but I like some. They just added 'Fullmetal Alchemist' which I used to watch on Adult Swim and it's probably one of the top five anime shows ever. It's average rating is 4.4 out of over 130,000, so it's not just me liking it. It has a pretty good mix of action, comedy, and drama. It scores a 9.1 on IMDB. Highly recommended.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421357/episodes