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DirecTV Admits No One Wants To Pay $30 To Watch A Movie

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DirecTV Admits No One Wants To Pay $30 To Watch A Movie

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201109 ... home.shtml

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Re: DirecTV Admits No One Wants To Pay $30 To Watch A Movie

Let's do the maths.

DirecTV $30 a film, cinema price (lets say) $5 per film per person.
So you'd need at least six people watching to justify the cost.
Six people in a cramped living room watching on a small TV..... That would be pants.

No wonder it didn't work.

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Re: DirecTV Admits No One Wants To Pay $30 To Watch A Movie

No Sh!t Sherlock

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	Quote: “They’re priced too high for consumers,” White said. “We didn’t choose that price, but that’s where the studios forced us to be.”

The studios were clearly deluded. The price was always going to kill the service. It is prices like that, that encourage piracy. Only an idiot would think that $30 a film would be a success.

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