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Originally Posted by McGuit
A couple of points. This is a product of greed pure and simple. Disney is hoping to sell the DVD to you over and over again. Unfortunately, they just can't stand getting into your pocket once.
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What studio doesn't produce DVDs to make as much money as possible? We would like to think they do it for "purist" reasons, but they produce DVDs for business reasons first and foremost.
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Simple, I was a senior level executive for Disney for close to 10 years (when I left to go work for the Fox)
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Cool.. can you hook me up with a copy of Finding Nemo?
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Now, as a current Disney stockholder, I am averse to them going in this direction for a couple of reasons: First, R&D costs and the money they will pour into a format that will not bear fruit with the public at the price point announced. If they wanted to make the price point feasible, why not charge $1.00 - $2.00 for the concept and go the Apple download model. Now America might get on board.
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I can see why you're concerned as a stock holder, but I don't think the "download" option would "fly" as the people who can't return a video or DVD on time probably don't want to or aren't able to download MPEG video to watch on their computer screen or _try_ to burn to a DVD they can watch on their "big screen" TV.
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But, knowing my former bosses, they will cheap out the shrink wrap and the discs will become exposed to air while sitting on the docks. People will call customer service and hear, "Your call in very important to us, please hold for the next 3 hours and the one customer service representative will answer your call in order of .........
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Now THIS definitely would suck and seal the fate of doom of this very quickly.
Peace...