Underseer
Contributor
I'm thinking of getting Guardians of the Galaxy.
The digital version on Google Play costs $20 for HD (720p max) and comes with no bonus materials.
The cheapest Blu-Ray version comes with one bonus feature, a deleted scene. It has a max resolution of 1080p. It costs more money to manufacture the disks, package it, and ship it out to retail stores, yet it costs around $15 dollars.
Who the hell came up with this pricing? The digital version obviously costs the studio far less to produce and distribute, yet costs five bucks more? Obviously, I'm going to end up buying a physical copy and ripping it myself for digital use, but why the fuck do studios do this crap?
Do they think they're going to discourage people from purchasing digital versions of their films? Everyone knows that the idea of shipping movies to customers on physical media is eventually going to be obsolete. If it's to prevent piracy, any monkey can download ripping software from the Internet and produce a higher resolution digital movie from the Blu-Ray. If anything, piracy is easier with the physical disk than with a digital service like Google Play.
Nothing about this pricing makes any sense to me.
The digital version on Google Play costs $20 for HD (720p max) and comes with no bonus materials.
The cheapest Blu-Ray version comes with one bonus feature, a deleted scene. It has a max resolution of 1080p. It costs more money to manufacture the disks, package it, and ship it out to retail stores, yet it costs around $15 dollars.
Who the hell came up with this pricing? The digital version obviously costs the studio far less to produce and distribute, yet costs five bucks more? Obviously, I'm going to end up buying a physical copy and ripping it myself for digital use, but why the fuck do studios do this crap?
Do they think they're going to discourage people from purchasing digital versions of their films? Everyone knows that the idea of shipping movies to customers on physical media is eventually going to be obsolete. If it's to prevent piracy, any monkey can download ripping software from the Internet and produce a higher resolution digital movie from the Blu-Ray. If anything, piracy is easier with the physical disk than with a digital service like Google Play.
Nothing about this pricing makes any sense to me.