Comments on: “Hammer the Rental Stores” http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/ Libraries, Technology and People by Michael Stephens Thu, 24 May 2012 02:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Movies and Film Blog » “Hammer the Rental Stores” http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-664 Movies and Film Blog » “Hammer the Rental Stores” Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:54:53 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/#comment-664 [...] Tame The Web added an interesting post on â??Hammer the Rental Storesâ??Here’s a small excerpt [...] [...] Tame The Web added an interesting post on â??Hammer the Rental Storesâ??Here’s a small excerpt [...]

]]> By: walt crawford http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-663 walt crawford Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:36:52 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/#comment-663 Not the primary point of your post, but "And, next year, we all have to have digital TVs…" is just wrong. Unless you change "we all" to "Everyone who doesn't use cable or satellite and would rather buy a new TV than invest $30 or so in a converter box" (I'm guessing that converters won't cost more than $30 after the gummint coupon.) Yep. All those folks have to have digital TVs. Not the primary point of your post, but

“And, next year, we all have to have digital TVs…”

is just wrong. Unless you change “we all” to

“Everyone who doesn’t use cable or satellite and would rather buy a new TV than invest $30 or so in a converter box”

(I’m guessing that converters won’t cost more than $30 after the gummint coupon.)

Yep. All those folks have to have digital TVs.

]]> By: Sean Walton http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-662 Sean Walton Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:40:37 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/2008/01/21/hammer-the-rental-stores/#comment-662 Interesting, but this does not take into account the unions. Yes, it would be nice as a business to hammer the video stores with cheap, instant access to your favorite movie, but the Writers Guild of America is on strike for one reason; royalties. They get very little from a $20 DVD sale, so look for the price not to drop, but to rise. Interesting, but this does not take into account the unions.

Yes, it would be nice as a business to hammer the video stores with cheap, instant access to your favorite movie, but the Writers Guild of America is on strike for one reason; royalties.

They get very little from a $20 DVD sale, so look for the price not to drop, but to rise.

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