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By: kiki

kiki — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:18:20 +0000

i want to describe down a movies!!!

By: Clyde

Clyde — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:28:26 +0000

Recession. Owning a DVD of your favorite movie is a frivolous luxury. You’ve already seen the movie, after all. Services like OnDemand and Netflix and Hulu have made it so easy to access content, there seems little point in owning a library of movies. People can barely keep up with what’s on their Tivo. So if the economic situation calls for belt tightening, owning a copy of a movie I have already seen and can easily rent… seems like an easy expense to cut.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:42:20 +0000

Even here, in Poland, we got Video on Demand available in TV without use of Internet. So cable TV is getting better and better, and on the other hand we got much video available all over the Internet.

By: Womble

Womble — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:32:50 +0000

Now that there’s a computer or console in nearly every home perhaps people are watching movies less?

By: Rich F

Rich F — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:21:44 +0000

hmmm. I’d say Red Box at a dollar a night to rent. Then DRM removal & ripping software.

By: Nosh

Nosh — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:48:38 +0000

Reason#1: The Other Blog(TM)
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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:47:47 +0000

Am I missing something or why don’t you count the illegal copys? Burning DVDs gets easier, DVD writers get cheaper, every copy protection will be encrypted in a few days. It’s a breeze to copy any DVD.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:38:55 +0000

Actually, Monty Python DVD sales are up:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/25/0041202

By: Beale

Beale — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:07:59 +0000

We get free movies via Dish. None of the TV ads pointed out that $40 TV digitizer boxes only give you a good picture for about 5 seconds at a time, because they’re so unstable. So we went to dish TV, instead.

By: mule

mule — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:04:39 +0000

But Netflix is a consumer of DVDs, so in theory, they help sales, right?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:01:24 +0000

Netflix

By: mule

mule — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:10:29 +0000

Entertainment expenses are the first to go when I’m tightening the old belt.

mule

By: Paul.

Paul. — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:05:28 +0000

1.) failing quailty films/no good films.
2.) Stil much – and much to high prices for dvd/blue ray, etc.
3.) economics
4.) Digital downloads.