Well the trend continues and more and more studios are catching on that this whole “INTERNET” thing isn’t just a passing fad. Gosh, and it only took them 15 years to figure it out.
More and more online movie download services are popping up almost weekly it seems. Now Fox is jumping on board (even though they already sell a bunch of their content through iTunes. The good folks at the Associated Press give us this:
The new “X-Men” movie and television shows like “24” are coming to a computer near you. Fox will tap into a platform now used to sell video games and let visitors buy movies and television shows that they can download for computer playback and transfer to devices running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player technology. Movies available in October include “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties,” “The Omen” and “Thank You for Smoking.” Availability through Fox’s Direct2Drive service will be concurrent with the DVD release.
Well that sounds just wonderful doesn’t it? Yeah… until once again you get to the price. $20 US per movie.
I’m not a geologist, but I’m pretty sure that after water, cocaine is the largest natural resource in the US, because these execs who are coming up with these price points are up to their eyeballs in it. As we’ve harped on here before… WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES FOR $20 THAT YOU CAN’T EVEN WATCH ON YOUR TV EASILY!?!?!?!
These movies should be at least HALF that. So here’s a question. How come they can sell a 48 minute television episode for $1.99, but have to sell a 90 minute movie for $20? The movie takes up more bandwidth for sure… so ok, charge $5 for a movie. Heck, bust the bank and charge $9!
MORONS! And these people wonder why piracy is a problem.
