Apple's iTunes Movie Store Hurdles - 2007?

[JimmyB248]

Maybe tiered pricing will be introduced, however if the studios see that sales for the older, cheaper films are huge and they're actually making far more money off of them than they are off of the $19.99 ones that are more widely available in stores to rent or buy maybe they'll realise that they're making more money by pricing them lower. Trial and error.

 

[Leondunkleyc]

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[Leondunkleyc]

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[celebrian23]

But that's normally the equivalent to renting a movie, a lot of the time the movies you watch at those places are just DVD players plugged into a projector (I think sometimes they might buy real discs second hand off of other cinemas, but that's just a guess)

Not true...they're not even on DVD yet. 🙂 And they're cheaper then renting too, especially on 50 cent tuesdays 😉

 

[AT71]

Oh well, I still agreed to Analog Kid's point on why it should be a single-tier pricing for movies on iTMS. When a movie is first release, good or crap it's still the same price. And same goes for rental.

Yes, I understand that there are countries with cinemas showing oldies or unpopular movies at a single lower flat admission fee. Still it's a single pricing. For example, two bucks for Casablanca and The Glimmer Man.

Yes, video rental shops so have two-tier pricing generally. New releases may just be a buck or two more than regular titles. New releases' rental price will drop to regular price. Thus, single pricing again.

Single-tier pricing simply simplifies for everyone. At most, two-tiers > $9.99 for new release (one month time-frame) and $4.99 for the rest. When I say "new release", I mean movies showing in the cinemas. Of course, I don't think movie studios will agree to that. At most, they release the current movies two weeks after opening. Well, wishful thinking.

Honestly, I prefer to part my money to movie studios than cinema operators. The latter is getting from bad to worse.

 

[notjustjay]

Honestly, I prefer to part my money to movie studios than cinema operators. The latter is getting from bad to worse.

Really? What are your cinema operators doing that's so bad?

And don't say high prices, cause ... they're just passing along the high prices they have to pay to, you guessed it, the movie studios.

 

[~Shard~]

Really? What are your cinema operators doing that's so bad?

And don't say high prices, cause ... they're just passing along the high prices they have to pay to, you guessed it, the movie studios.

Exactly. The theaters actually make next to nothing on tickets sales - almost all of the proceeds go directly to the movie studios. Why do you think concession prices are so high? It's because that's the main source of revenue for the theaters, not ticket sales. 😎

 

[billyboy]

The movie store is an adendum to the most successful most visited music site going. The quality of the music files is not the top notch it could be in theory, but they sound great on the intended devices, iPods and computers with less than amazing speakers. Therefore Apple have a massive client base to start from who think Apple are the mutts nuts for downloading. Coupled with a snazzy Apple device that shows off the material to its best potential, they will do well pretty much regardless of how many purists think the resolution destined to look good on that Apple device is less than perfect on their 60" HD screen.

 

[HGW]

better a quicktime movie store.

2 reasons:

quicktime = video,

the name is encouraging to people who worry about download times