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?
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
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
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Ermm. . . that is to say two NEW episodes/month.
24 new episodes a year for $50. . . that seems a bit cheap.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Ah, believing that illegal markets should set fair market prices. How refreshingly . . . corrupt?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
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.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
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.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Jay, I'm willing to bet that those full-series Star Trek sets are bootleg.
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
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 ]
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
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).
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :