Most of the people I know outside of the industry watch porn on tubesites. They say there is nothing that would make them pay for porn. They would rather settle for what they can get for free than pull out their credit card.
If anything is going to pull a small percentage of people away from tube site?s its lower prices with higher value. When you are selling one scene for a dollar or two it is more likely to be an impulse buy. If a customer really likes your content they will have no problem paying a monthly recurring charge as long as you update regularly. Most programs already sell $1.00 trials that offer their entire library for a day or two. The only reason a customer would prefer a single video for a $1 is from the idea that many customers don?t trust porn sites, after years of shady billing practices.
I think the issue is the gateway that would manage the service for everyone. As good as the idea sounds, no one is going to trust one company with everyone?s content and processing. This industry is a fan of control, even though they don?t always show it by selling rights to videos for a quick buck, I don?t see it realistically happening. I feel like your idea could be accomplished by individual programs selling single videos for micro-payments to up sell a recurring membership. I don?t understand why we would all need to join a single gateway to accomplish this.
I agree with you on the price examples you mentioned. A customer can add HBO for roughly $15, Netflix for $15, Hulu for $10 and purchase a single red box DVD for $1. But if you want the title on the day of release you have to buy it on itunes for $10 or on DVD for $20. Netflix doesn?t offer most of the new hot DVD?s on demand. I think redbox even has a delayed release date? I agree with Doc, it would be difficult to offer the average single studio library for less than $30 a month. I feel like it only works with mega sites that offer thousands and thousands of DVD?s that offer an extremely high value for a low price. Walmart can only roll the prices back because of their insane volume, same with costco.
At lease you are thinking of ideas instead of yelling sue the tubes! We need to focus on ideas to evolve rather than trying to push technology backwards. As someone said in this thread, technology does not go backwards.
