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Originally Posted by A1R3K
I don't believe any of the liars in those articles. No one tells the truth to anyone in press. Its all a giant circle jerk. Sales are not down 10%, motherfuckers are going out of business! Doors are closing. They act like the goddamn Iraqi Information Minister. Some studios will weather the storm, other ones will not. The failure of many of the large studios to do something productive on the web years ago is fucking them in the ass right now. With a very few exceptions, video companies going to web have totally fucked it up. Now it's too late. DVD is dying a slow death and they don't have a web presence. Shit, I'd wager that half of them don't even have their shit encoded for the web in the right formats or traffic to a domain they own. Of course DVD will never die, unless a new format replaces it, but it is surely being kicked in the balls right now. People are upside down on mortgages, gas and food prices are crippling the middle class that once had a few hundred dollars between paychecks. Nothing is recession proof. How do I start charging people for air?
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That was bascially my EXACT thought when I read the article yesterday... Nearly everyone wired spoke to is on the DVD side and YES they are suffering due to thier own lack of foresight about the web and thinking they can continue with business as usual when the web is going to take over. Who will want to go to a store to pick up "Creampie Trannys #24" and have to deal with another human questioning you when you can just watch it at home and not let anyone know.