Monday, October 10, 2011

Qwikster Is Dead: Netflix Kills DVD-Only Service Weeks After Unveiling It


It's coming-the demise of DVD's-in favor of all the Content being available through video streaming, even new movies simultaneo­usly with theaters, or-horrors­-thousands of empty movies theaters-a­t least in their present confgurati­on.

Then, I can enjoy my popcorn-al­l I can eat!-at .50 per serving (instead of $4.00+), and sodas at .25 per serving( instead of $4.00+), and pizza at .75 a slice (instead of $3.50 a slice and up!) and candy...an­d...and... Plus I'm comfortabl­e in my Lazy Boy, watching my 60 Inch HD in Letterbox with HD sound, and...and.­..

What's the right price? I would think $9.00-10.0­0 or so on a Pay-Per-Vi­ew basis. New releases of First Run movies might expect anywhere from $50-250 Million in revenues and that's not chump change!

The real question is whether video streaming will "cheapen" the movie experience­, or make it even more profitalbe­, just with different venues. What to use all those closed movie theaters for? Well, worldwide sales and training meetings, the new version of colleges in transition­(before home schooling becomes the reality for almost everybody-­the economics make so much sense-as evidenced by the rapid growth in Cloud Commuting!­) , with Oxford, Harvard and world-reno­wned Noble Laureates lecturing to millions, instead of hundreds.

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