Dan Mayer's Blog

Seriously i am sick of the big media companies. The MPAA and RIAA and the companies that support them are crap. The music industry makes way to much money. They are pissed because they can't keep their insane profit growth that they have managed to maintain for like 20 years (growth before that was small). I think companies have to recognize that in large growth industries eventually you run out of room to grow. After making 40 billion a year the music industry is looking at how to suck 45 billion out of the people during a slow economy. They can suck it and to bad for them to not realize the new digital distribution. To bad they never payed attention to internet radio instead they are trying to kill it off with huge royalties. If they would have had $.65 or .99 cent songs for download and free internet radio that was good, they wouldn't have to worry about all the trading and stealing so much.

This is really a continuation of a rant i started over on Wasted Brains. So read that as well to get the whole picture.

The movie industry learned a little bit from the music industries problem. They have responded a little faster and before digital movies have really taken hold. They are still ignorant when it comes to profit margins. Let me explain. You can rent a brand new DVD at block buster for 5 bucks. This is probably the most expensive to rent but closest to you (grocery stores are like 2 or 3 bucks). This gives you the movie for a day or two in the highest quality format available really. The online solution from the major movie studios is movielink. Movie link provides highly compressed (lower quality) downloads that you can watch from your computer that take about 2 hours to download (compared to a 5 maybe 10 min drive to Blockbuster). The cost 6 dollars.

what wait a minute? Does it cost more? Yes with a lower quality video, 2 hour wait, and no cost for the medium (Packaging, shipping, DVD) this method of rental costs more. The movie industry is brilliant charge higher prices for an entirely lower quality experience. While their at it I think i should just send them my monthly paycheck and have them slowly posion me to death... Well i guess at least their not the tobacco industry... hehe

Seriously make music and movies make sense and you will get my money. I buy used DVDs for 10 bucks a pop cause it is so expensive to rent now. Give me 2 or 3 dollar online movie rentals 99 cents a song or 9 bucks a albulm downloads and your going to get my cash.