Bad Business Keeps DVDs Off Shelves

Hollywood backroom dealings blow DVD profits by keeping new releases out of consumers hands. These dumbass dinosaurs. Fuck em.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,1895851.story

You either give the people what they want, or they take it from you. Here in the 21st century, the winner is going to be whoever says FU to the monopoly tactics and releases their content simultaneously across all formats desired by the consumers. Mark my words. It's going to happen soon, and whoever does it first is going to make a fortune, and everyone else is going to trip over themselves getting in line to do it right from now on.

If you won't make something available to the consumers who want it, F that cryin when they get it some other way. And kudos to anyone who takes the money you leave on the table.

"DVDs on the shelf" is an outdated joke already. Hollywood already missed the opportunity to simultaneously release DVDs to retail with theatrical premiers. Now they have to go directly online if they really want to do it right.

Theater owners are deep in the tar pit. The new model for a theater is primarily digital, and involves knowing your local audience well enough that you book a lot of different niche programming.

It's an affront to consumers who don't want to subject themselves to the hell of theater going in this day and age, to bombard them with advertising for your shitty movie, and yet deny them the ability to view it the way they want to view it. That's abusing your patrons. And it's shortsighted and leaves money on the table. Many/Most of those people are not going to watch your shitty movie months later on DVD. Whereas they might have watched it online in the first place when it was being advertised and part of a cultural moment because of a marketing campaign.

The Internet has taught people that in terms of the Content that is just about the only thing that the USA manufactures at all any more, false shortages /etc of marketing plans past don't fly. People get online and they get what they want. They aren't F ing around waiting for you.

Again, it's a matter of monopoly and cowardliness on the part of entrenched Hollywood interests (ie not at all in the consumers' interest). And it will all rot in a blink the first time some visionary gives the masses something they want at once across platforms and makes a killing.

The Old Men in Suits are terrified of course because Content is like a fart in the air, and people know it and just laugh at the days when one could pretend otherwise. People now don't want to hear the crying over distribution costs of film and DVDs. They simply don't care. They know they can turn on the computer and watch that movie right where they are right now. Shipping film cannisters and shrinkwrapped DVDs is not the consumers problem.

Think people will still buy DVDs after the Great Depression II? Think again I says.

You're all wrong about Blu Ray. NOBODY gives a fuck about Blu Ray, except for the most backward assed early adoptive nerds who still have money. To cool kids, a DVD or a Blu Ray disc (what the fuck ever) is no different than an 8 Track Tape. It's a sign that you are an old man from another era. Who wants to F around with a disc or some shit to watch something? Only old timers. The kids know that Content is a fart and that fart should be on your ipod, in your TV in your computer, in your hardrive, in the Cloud already so they can watch when they want and where they want whenever they want and however they want, anytime they want. And that has nothing to do with keeping track of discs or holding off on watching something because some twat in a backoffice thinks it's still a good idea to use marketing strategies from the 1980s.

Listen jerkoff, YOU are the one who has been trolling me. You've trolled me in multiple threads. I've tried to ignore your dumb ass. If you don't like my line of reasoning, that's fine, but your repeated personal attacks on me are not fucking cool. Just fuck off and don't reply to me if you don't like me. Or go on back to fucking your dog or whatever it is you do when you aren't being a shithead on the Internets.