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Originally Posted by ElCuCuy2000
If you're going to pay $7 for a disk that will destruct in two days..wouldn't you think that paying $14.99 for a DVD instead (that you can keep forever) is worth it???????????
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Actually, the consumer this would be
ideal for is the person who doesn't care about getting the movie on the very day it's released on DVD and who is bad about returning rented movies "on time". With this system, they don't have to pay monthly subscription fees and can "save money" that way and not have to worry about returning the DVD late and paying late fees.
I know a number of people who would be happy to rent the DVD and just toss it when done. if someone pays $20 / mo for a Netflix subscription and they watch only one DVD a month, they're basically wasting their money. If they can pay $7 to watch the movie over a 48 hr period and then throw it away, that would be worth it to them.
The problem THEN becomes what happens to the $7 if I don't have time to watch the DVD within the 48 hr period? I guess if the clock starts ONLY when the sealed package is broken, then they can simply NOT break the seal until they are ready to watch the movie.
This doesn't sound as "far fetched" as most of you think it does....
Peace...