The Movie Industry Needs To Stop Whining

Originally Posted by computerpro3

Here's the problem with that statement: I rarely go to theaters anyway due to my projector based home theater.

Thus established that they aren't getting any of my money on the bigscreen, the question becomes how can they get it otherwise?

As it stands now, I actually pay $30 a month to Giganews, plus $15 every three months for internet search. You read that correctly - I pay about $400 a year for those services.

As I said, I'm not cheap. I pay that because it's simply better quality than commercial releases.

If I had the capability of renting a bluray or streaming a true 1080P version of a movie the day it was released for $5, why the HELL would I ever pirate? Instead of getting zero of my money, they would get hundreds of it per year, and newsbin providers (who I'm sure the movie industry can't stand) would go bankrupt.

As I said earlier, give me a quality product and I'll pay.

I would agree with this sentiment. While I hate not being able to re-watch a movie, there is an allure to being able to stream movies even if you have to pay to watch them again.

The allure is that you get to watch it initially at least when you want to and where you want to. You don't have to be in a theater full of loud people and gum on your shoes. My XBOX 360 gets a streaming workout. I download TV shows and movies ALL the time. It's great to just flip threw shows and click on what you want and within 2 minutes (if you have a fast connection) you can immediately watch it and there's no damn commercials.

Originally Posted by DukenukemX

In the end, it's easy to walk into a theater to get that quality experience. Given that you can afford.

There is no "quality experience" in a movie theater.

Even moderately price home theater systems (55" or greater) demolish movie theaters.

Theaters...didn't they die back in the 1940's?

i agree with the "don't treat customers as criminals" part. i refuse to go to the movies because of the anti piracy intros that are so bad i ask myself why i should pay 6 or more euros for a movie that most likely is the remake of a remake of old, lukewarm ideas covered up with some insanely expensive CGI that doesn't really fit, but hey, everyone's gotta have matrix style special effects now.

then there's another thing and this guy got it right too: there's demand for products that the industry doesn't satisfy and they could sell it in digital format. for example: there's a lot of fans of japanese anime (not me tho), but holy batman, the imports are expensive if you can even get them. or movie series that sometimes take ages to be released. or old, more obsucre titles that are out of production. etc.

or something else related to that: i live in austria and major retailers only stock the german versions of games. and guess what. it includes german speech/text and often french (wtf? maybe for switzerland, but why not sell the french version in the french regions...). for me, gaming includes english language speech/text. the translations are fine in most cases, but it just feels wrong. how do i get an english game if it's not on steam (omg digital distribution 4tw)? buy an import at 20 euros more? or just download it? if they put english language files on the game dvds i'd buy them in a heartbeat, but i've given up to bother with imports.

All very good points, temujin

I watch a lot of anime, yet to buy all of the series I like I would have to spend twice a fortune. Many TV series are often a season or so behind (getting better, though), or unavailable outside re-runs. In both cases I'm left with no choice but to resort to my favourite P2P network, even if it'd take less effort to quickly buy the DVDs online at a reasonable price.

If you want English games, you should look here in the Netherlands, only children's games are available in Dutch, everything else is 100% English. They stopped doing translations around the time of the SNES or so. I truly wouldn't want to consider playing my favourite games in Dutch, so I know where you're coming from