Hollywood might just be supplying the pirates with DVD quality copies even earlier than ever if they take this approach, and may do much more damage to their revenue.

My thoughts exactly...so....bring it on Hollywood!

My question is, why bother going to the theater? Imagine all the lost jobs, nobodys going to want to go to the theaters anymore. I rarely go to theaters even now. dvd releases have been pushed up already and it doesnt even take 3 months normally. Surviving christmas, I swear to god it took only a month. it pissed me off that i spent 12 dollars on tickets.


Pay 4-6 dollars (per person, hope to god your date pays for themselves) to watch the movie once, On the movie theaters schedual, when you have to use the bathroom you have to miss possibly the best part of the movie. pay for EXPENSIVE consessions(unless you bring your own(guilty)) OR, pay 10-20 dollars, watch it whenever you want, as many times as you want, in your own home, with a REMOTE! not

Which would they rather us do... Buy the DVD or go see it at the movie theater? (I know, they *really* want us to do both!)

If they'd rather us see it at the theater, then this is my suggestion:

Release the film at the theater AND on DVD at the same time. But, instead of putting all the "extras" on the DVD, show those at the theater. Make it worthwhile for us to want to see it on the big screen, and let those who don't want to pay the higher price be able to get the movie right away, but they wouldn't get the "extras".

Though I suppose those extras would make it to the internet pretty quickly...

This is great now when I see a movie I can get it on dvd the same day, if of course this happens.

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BobL: Uhm,

Sometimes there are 7 hours worth of extras in the DVD:s?

1) who the hell can watch em all at once?
2) who decides in what order the extras are watched?

As far as the news goes, If this happens, the number of people going to the theatre will decrease massively. I mean, who would pay 8 euros to watch a movie once, if u can get the DVD for 15 euros and watch it as many times as you want, see the extras and then sell it for some money back if you dont want to have it. The solution to this would be to massively decrease the price of the movieticket, eh? If the movieticket would cost 3 euros and the DVD 15, I would rather see it in the theatre. Anybody with me on this?

I'd like to see this happen too. If I see a movie at the theater that I like I hate having to wait around for months waiting for it to be released.

"My question is, why bother going to the theater? Imagine all the lost jobs, nobodys going to want to go to the theaters anymore."

Because going to the theater is an "experience" in itself. Better sound, quality ect....People will always go, releasing a DVD the same day will only prevent multiple times of one seeing a movie in the theater, but they will probably sell the DVD at a price to compensate for that.

And speaking of "extras" on DVD who in hell wants any of it? Its all bunch of BS that few people watch, and if you do watch it then you should seek professional help....lol

I think this is a great idea. I hate being raped at the theatres. I mean $4 for a horrible tasting hotdog and they don't even give you sauerkraut! Thats absurd. No place should be able to do that. That includes sports and concert areans or stadiums. I would rather be at home with a cold beer and the remote. Home Theatre equipment is cheap nowadays for a decent system. Yes the theatre is "an experience" but I only need to "experience" blockbusters like spiderman. I do believe that if this happens less people will go to the theatre so maybe to be fair new release dvds will have to cost slightly more than regular dvds. Like $25 if its still in theatres and back down to $20 after its been out a while.

does anyone know when this might happen?
This is pretty crazy, but cool. No more 8 bucks at movie theater, ill just go buy it.

This will never happen it screws up the whole Hollywood business model and will just make better copies available faster... Who ever said this has no idea what they are talking about. That is like saying they will release all the movies overseas before they come out here to cut down on the piracy... I am just sick of morons

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if they want people to do both, they better bring the cost of theater tickets down. to a dollar or 2 each.

i live in los angeles (california, usa) and around here its $10 to see a movie (and some places are even more than that!)... its rediculous to pay that much to see a crappy movie. at least if it comes out on DVD at the same time, you can get a couple friends to pitch in and spend like $5 each... which is like half of what it would cost to go to the movies. of course, there are certain movies that are worth seeing in the theaters. its nice to have that option. i think they realize those of us who are large pirates will continue to pirate movies... but this might prevent those who copy the occasional movie from pirating movies.

Awesome for us, Stupid for the Movie industry.
Why would you ever go to the theater again. They make so much money at the box office. Think of Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, Etc... People see them at least once if not more in the theaters, and then can't wait till it comes out on dvd. So most people are willing to pay 2 or 3 times over. Did these people who make these decisions even go to business school?