And, honestly, you usually end up getting season DVDs for about $25 rather than $40 so closer to $1 an episode than $2 to purchase the episodes.
Rental price should be in the $0.33 area, maybe $0.50. $0.99 is WAY too much. Even at $0.50, you talking $11 to rent the whole season which is much more than the rental would cost on DVD where you get longer than 24 hours to watch. -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an utterly disingenuous argument. $0.99 to rent an episode for > 24 hours is no more buying that paying $5 to rent a DVD from > Blockbuster. You don't even "buy" the episode at the $1.99 price: it > is a DRM-protected file that only plays on Apple devices. > > If I pay $40 for a 22-episode season of a series on DVD, that works > out to $1.81 for an episode that I can play on any DVD player and rip > to an MP4 file I can play on any device. > > Oh, Mr. Zucker...how we'll miss your ignorance and general > cluelessness when you're gone. > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So sayeth the CEO of NBCU. And I agree with him -- $1.99 is not an > > unreasonable price to pay for a show, and .99 does feel as though it > > devalues the product. Then again, I wouldn't pay .09 for "The > > Apprentice." > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100922/media_nm/us_nbc_apple > > -- > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > > -- > > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
