DVD. Is it dead?

[Jacques]

As someone once said to me "if it's on a disc it will be copied, if it's on the internet it will be copied".

You have to ask why Piracy exists. If it's cheap enough and widely available why buy a pirate copy when you can have an original? It costs me less to import a mainstream movie from the US than to pop down to my local Woolworths. That is part of why we have piracy.

[Sam Slater]

I'be nedar had a plobrem!

[Phil mCc]

Yip its dead, Warner now go direct to download, you could download Superman Returns before you could buy it on DVD. Far as I am concered the sooner its burried the better. Hated it from the start its a pirates best mate.
IPTV will take over, when you want it, wherever you are and whatever device you choose. It will cost less than 10p to deliver a blockbuster movie to your TV screen over IPTV ok they need to make a profit but there is plenty room for that before it gets near a DVD rental. Even the BBFC are looking towards the future, as so they should be,

Phil McC

[eroticartist]

Benny,
I have no objection to the customer running off a copy for himself but what I am talking about is not the individual but huge piracy operations.

And also dishonesty among distributors and shops who never re-order but are still selling one's titles years later.

I don't sell DVDs to the trade any longer!

Mike Freeman

[eroticartist]

Jim,
Your email link does not work please email me.
Mike Freeman.

[Phil mCc]

Hi Mike jim@gdbtv.com have a look at more big news if you doubt its dead Blockbuster just bought movielink. Movielink is a download site offering Warner MGM etc.......

Jim.