"Joxer" <Email private....send to usenet> wrote in message
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>I don't know about anyone else here but I for one hope the strike
> lasts a long time (more than a year) and realy gets Hollywood to clean
> up their act.
>
> Lets start with the writers wanting a cut of the DVD sales.
> Ok when you get a blank DVD at Staples it costs $.64. Now
> you figure that when a studio makes a DVD set they're not
> paying the $.64 each retail. They probably get it at
> cost through the distrution channels they already own,
> so in reality that DVD probably actually costs them
> a fraction of the $.64 you pay at Staples. (Maybe $.10
> before the markup?)
>
> So that DVD set you just slapped down $44 to buy, they're
> making a healthy profit from it. Now they may counter
> the $44 covers the cost of making the show. A show
> that has already been paid for between ad revenue,
> and the price the network pays the studio to buy the show.
>
> We won't even get into substandard writing, mediocre
> scripts that the producers should torn to shreasds
> and insisted they be re-written.
>
> I can see this strike lasting for at least a year,
> viewers discover other things like the internet,
> going outside, socializing with real people,
> video games, excercize, etc. And then the
> strike gets settled, and viewers are nowhere
> to be seen. They're enjoying the other stuff
> they've discovered in the mean time to much
> to go back and watch substandard tv.
>
> It is now November of 2007, I have yet
> to find a single show on TV that even
> remotely comes near a quality show
> like GG. Not one single show.
You are right the $0.08 (up from $0.04 they get now) that the writers want
for each DVD will be major stumbling block on the ability of people to buy
DVDs.
I knew those greedy writers were the problem and not the benevolent
studios.
And what is the contribution of people who write the show compared to
those
who market it? Nothing!!!
Sharpe Fan
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