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By phatboye on 1/6/2010 7:43:31 PM , Rating: 2
The real reason why Warner Bros. is pushing this idea is simple; Warner Bros. wants the general public to buy their movies where Warner Bros receives a profit on each copy sold. Warner bros. loses a lot of money to movie rentals and they are willing to do anything they can do to put a stop to it. By requiring the rental industry to delay the rental of movies Warner bros is hoping that more people will opt to by the movie on DVD/BD instead. Unfortunately anyone with half a brain can see that this plan will ultimately not only cause people to resort to obtaining these movies illegally but it probably will not help boost movie sales.
I’m pretty sure that Netflix will be receiving monetary compensation from Warner Bros. in an amount that will more than make up from the losses that they will receive from this decision.

By oab on 1/6/2010 8:16:17 PM , Rating: 2
The article said that Netflix would get 50% reduced costs for warner movies.

By mcnabney on 1/6/2010 10:13:34 PM , Rating: 2
And what percentage of that savings will Netflix pass-on to their customers?

I am guessing 0%, but they may even raise rates.

