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Scott R
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Would you pay $50/year to receive monthly installments of two episodes each of say, Firefly on DVD?

How much would you be willing to pay?

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Jay
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I’ve seen all 7 seasons of each Star Trek go series on Ebay from a Chinese seller for $150. So I think that might be my limit
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Scott R
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Ermm. . . that is to say two NEW episodes/month.

24 new episodes a year for $50. . . that seems a bit cheap.

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Ah, believing that illegal markets should set fair market prices. How refreshingly . . . corrupt?
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I would pay that for Farscape, in a heartbeat, as long as the episodes were like the original episodes, not like Peacekeeper Wars. I have not yet watched enough Firefly to make a similar call.
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Although noting that a season of Farscape currently goes for $100 on DVD when it's already been paid for once by the cable network, I doubt they'd continue making them at that level of payment. For new episodes, I would still happily pay $100/year... not sure how much over that I'd go. Hmmm. It would have to work out to less cost per episode than going to see a movie in a theater.
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Jay, I'm willing to bet that those full-series Star Trek sets are bootleg.
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I think we probably would.

The question is, how many people willing to do such a thing is going to make it profitable enough for them to create the show?

The concept, actually, is pretty interesting. One season on TV to get people hooked, then a series goes direct to DVD.

The individual shows could probably also be PPV every month as well.

[ February 02, 2005, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Amka ]

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I think I'd be willing to pay up to $5 an episode for something like Firefly where I know the quality (so $120/year as long as I could pay in installments). For something new, that hadn't had its quality proven, maybe half that (and it would have to have a no-risk trial period).
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$50/yr? for Firefly? HECK YA!
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