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   From: matrix29@charter.net   
      
   Fish Eye no Miko wrote:   
   > On Dec 10, 12:42 pm, Derek Janssen  wrote:   
   >   
   > > At the moment, Fox's TV ads are facing facts, calling spades,   
   > > and playing up to their REAL expected first-weekend audience:   
   > > "...And it's the only place where you can see the trailer for   
   > > X-Men: Wolverine!" Unquote.   
   >   
   > ...until it shows up on all over the Internet, about an hour after the   
   > first showing.   
   >   
   > > Derek Janssen (basically, "YOU know it, and WE know it...")   
   >   
   > Yeah, pretty much.  That alone will make them some money, I'm sure.   
   > See, here's what you do:  Go to the Cineplex, find a movie you wanna   
   > see that's starting a bit later than DTESS, watch the X-Men trailer,   
   > then go to the theater showing the movie you REALLY wanna see.   
   >   
   > Catherine Johnson.   
      
       Personally I think the movie studios ought to sell the DVD of the movie   
   the same day the movie is showing to people who just saw the movie.  Sell   
   the DVD in the lobby of the theaters exclusively until the official big box   
   store release (although this could delay the initial movie release or make   
   the extra goodies like commentary track be a bit odd if the making of the   
   movie is still fresh in the minds of the stars and director).   
      
       Why not?  They know the odds of piracy is very high so a same-day   
   release nixes the worth of pirating a crappier in-theater filmed version of   
   the movie.  The movie theater can get an immediate cut of the profits so as   
   to lower the prices of the over-priced candy, soda, and popcorn (AKA the   
   main source of the movie theater's profits).  It would allow merchandising   
   opportunities to be immediate and make a damn good estimate whether it is   
   worthy to mass produce the secondary physical goods nationwide.   
      
       The logical downside is that there is potential for movie-goers to come   
   to see one movie and purchase the other DVD's showing in the theater that   
   week, thusly skipping the other shows entirely.  However, if they buy the   
   DVD and not see the movie, then the theater still gets a cut of the profits   
   and the only serious loss is in selling over-priced candy, popcorn, and soda   
   drinks.  The upside is that this could still encourage the "no show" early   
   DVD buyers to come and see the movie in huge-screen format if their HDTV is   
   not acceptable in image quality.   
      
       Any new change involves some element of risk.   
      
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