Would You Pay $30 For Movie Rentals On Your TV?

A single movie for 30 bucks? No. If it was 30 bucks for access to all HD movies of new releases, say, 90 days after theatrical release, maybe.

If it was the same day the movie hits theaters, yea, sure. It’s cheaper than my six member family paying $9 each for flat soda and shitty popcorn and a shitty experience. My TV looks 10x better than my local theater. But 60 days later? The odds are good I could find an R5 of decent quality online for free. If the studios are getting 80% I see no reason they’d object to reducing the time between releases.

One negative to this is that any movie released through this method would be released online day of. That’s just how this kind of thing works, unfortunately.

No. I will keep going to theaters all the time and then buying only the movies that I think are great when they’re released. And yeah I like to own movies so I can do weird things like take them to my friends’ houses or let them borrow it. Old school, I know.

i agree with the “maybe if it wasn’t after 60 days” people.

movies come and go so fast these days that waiting 60 days is sort of silly. if i haven’t seen it yet yet the odds are good that i’ll be waiting for netflix and/or waiting another 30 or 60 days to just buy it for 30$(or less) and keep the movie forever.

while films stay in theatre’s for a few weeks, the shelf life for a movie is really only about 2 weeks on average. i’d think that if they really want this to work they’d let you at them 14 days after release, and use those sales to help boost over all returns.

30$ is a lot if its just me, but if my wife is there, kids, friends over etc, the price wouldn’t be so bad (no worse than a pay-per-view ufc or boxing purchase) assuming you have a big screen tv, and surround sound setup to enhance the “theatre” experience.

this plan requires some fine tuning!

$30 for a single movie is ridiculous! Only a sucker woulp pay that much. I cut the cord already and just use software TV services like the TVDevo website You can actually watch shows with these and they don’t stick you with a monthly or pay-par view bill.

I agree, the whole concept as currently proposed makes no sense. Anyone who doesn’t want to see the film badly enough to see it in the theater, and has already waited 60 days, would surely wait a little longer and rent it for a fraction of the $30. The only people I could see doing this would be those with disposable income who want to see the film desperately but couldn’t get to the theater for one reason or another (small children, work schedules, etc).

This is just to get their toe in the door. Once started they’ll be day and date within 12 months and that will kill it all, not that any of these execs can see further than the next weekend.

It’s coming and there isn’t anything we can do about it. I think only IMax will survive this.