Warner Takes New Steps To Rescue DVD Sales

[JMcEntegart]

In an attempt to revive DVD sales Warner Brothers has come up with an interesting way to get those discs off the shelves, the New York Times reports.

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[christian summer]

hmmm...i guess hindsight is 20/20 when you see your profits drop...i can imagine the board meetings going like this...

we tried to push a superior technology onto our audience, crippled with an asinine level of drm, and an outrageous price, we failed to properly embrace downloadable content making it easier to pirate over the internet then enjoy legitimately purchased content...and now our biggest money maker of the last 10 years is declining because we have pushed the consumer away from dvd to hd and bluray...

people arent buying because they dont want to buy dvd if all movie companies are saying hd is now...

i dont feel the least bit bad about this situation...

-c

 

[Pei-chen]

christian summer, you assumed board members actually know how to run a business. I imagine the board meetings more like this:

Chair: we tried to charge as much as possible for a product that is of the lowest quality so how come we aren't making more money

CEO: It's the internet, our customer are paying less for better products.

Chair: Find the internet's headquarter and send our lawyers; sue the customer too.

CEO: We'll hire more marketing people, move the service dept to India and lay off 2,000 people.

I bet at least half the board members have no idea what DRM is and don’t really care.

 

[o-ooo-o]

Well... a great many of the "real, buy a movie on a disk" crowd bet on HD-DVD and got the shaft by all the major studios in thanks for their devotion to re-buying movies they already owned on DVD in the first place. They (the studios) got their short-term $1,000,000,000 from Sony and now have to live with it.

Gosh darn... , I'm so sorry DVD sales are down...

 

[o-ooo-o]

Well... a great many of the "real, buy a movie on a disk" crowd bet on HD-DVD and got the shaft by all the major studios in thanks for their devotion to re-buying movies they already owned on DVD in the first place. They (the studios) got their short-term $1,000,000,000 from Sony and now have to live with it.

Gosh darn... , I'm so sorry DVD sales are down...