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Originally Posted by gideongallery
you do realize that tv stations PAY for the right to show a movie
they are not giving away anything on tv.
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What I meant is that they are giving it away to the viewer. How much do you think the studios would want from TV networks to show a movie like Avatar or Iron Man 2 on free TV? The amount they would demand in payment would be so high that the commercials would have cost as much ore more than super bowl commercials.
Not to mention they would have to edit the movie for content if it rated above PG. Some might say that is a selling point, if you want the unedited version you can pay for it, but I don't think TV stations are going to want to pay a premium price for content that is edited and available still in theaters.
As I said, this is never going to happen. First run movies will never be available on free TV on the same day they are released in theaters.
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tv stations would never have created ondemand if the vcr had not forced them to compete either. The fact is they made way more money forcing people to watch the re-run with all the commercials included.
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I would say Tivo and DVRs forced cable companies to ramp up their on demand services. The VCR can record one show at a time and is not terribly easy to use. The DVR and Tivo are a breeze to use and many of them you can record more than one show at a time.
Broadcast TV stations might have made more by forcing you to watch reruns, but companies like HBO, Showtime and other premium pay services actually make more money with On Demand because it allows subscribers to watch the show whenever they want. For them it is different than regular TV because there are no advertisers to make happy, they just want people to keep paying the $15 a month for their channels.
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A new fair use needs to be created to stop that abuse, once that happens movie producers will produce content that allows theaters to compete on a technological basis.
RGBY filmed content which will look superior to anything you can see on your RGB tv at home.
the technology would perculate down to the tv over time, and 60 trillion dollar / year (assuming the adoption speed of surround sound is consistent with the new technologies that come down the pike) of new technology would replace 350 million lost due to "piracy".
Even if you were assuming that the fabricated piracy numbers currently declared by the MPAA is correct that a win for the US economy.
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Where do you get this 60 trillion dollar number? Are you saying that simply selling new technology to the consumer will add 60 trillion/ year to the US economy?
You can have all the best equipment in the world and it won't stop people from downloading a movie for free. Many people who have the money to spend on high end AV gear want media that allows them to take advantage of it. They will pay for Blu Ray or for HD pay per view etc. This has no effect on the guy who has a normal TV and no surround sound who wants to download a copy of Iron Man 2 because he doesn't want to pay for it.
Even if knew technology sales helped cover the cost of piracy losses they are often two different companies. Panasonic selling more TV's doesn't help Paramount recoup losses due to downloading.
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but that would still not be a fair use friendly solution, all mediums would have to get the movie at the same time, and that would include commercial tv.
if access shifting were to come about, then the act of ignoring a medium would entitle someone who wanted to fill that need to fill that need.
That would be a good thing (60 trillion dollar a year in new technology).
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Let me make sure I have this correct. You are saying that if a company releases their movie in theaters, on pay-per-view, on DVD and on pay per download, but not on free TV then those who wanted it on free TV should be allowed to just download it for free because their fair use rights would be violated and somehow allows this to happen is going to create 60 trillion/year in new income.
Please explain.