Comments on: Netflix Agrees To Delay Distribution Of New Releases From Fox And Universal http://paidcontent.org/2010/04/09/419-netflix-agrees-to-take-new-universal-and-fox-releases-later/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: greagirl http://paidcontent.org/2010/04/09/419-netflix-agrees-to-take-new-universal-and-fox-releases-later/#comment-77991 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:21:45 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/04/09/419-netflix-agrees-to-take-new-universal-and-fox-releases-later/#comment-77991 Call me kooky but if I REALLY want to see a movie that badly, I go and watch it at the movie theater on the great big jumbo screen when it first comes out. If for some bizarre reason I am unable to watch it at the “big theater” then I go and watch it at the $1.50 discount theater. In the rare instance that I want to see a new release that is straight to DVD or foreign, I simply put it to the top of my Netflix queue and continuously receive free extra “bonus” DVDs (DVDs on top of my subscription plan allotment) until they can ship it to me. It’s pretty win/win for me.

I LOVE movies but I consider actually going out into the world and engaging in actual activities with real live people, etc. to be more a priority in my life. There is not one single movie out there that I will throw a fit over if I don’t get. If you choose not to watch a movie at the movie theater and have the patience to wait for it to come out on Blu-ray/DVD in the first place, you really must NOT want to see it all that badly, and therefore, waiting an extra month will hardly kill you.

I do, however, have mixed feelings about this deal, if only on principle. While I do have a home theatre complete with a Netflix streaming blu-ray player and the more interesting content available via streaming for me to watch when I’m tooling around the house for whatever reason, the better, I also(on principle) don’t like the idea of movie studios trying to force anyone into buying their DVD or going to Blockbuster. There’s just something very un-American (and likewise very American(wink.)) about it all. We are afterall (in theory) a country that believes in competition are we not?

Still, however, positive or negative this shift is, only time will tell.

Grea.
http://www.SeaMonkeyInk.com

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