(Lambert is going to kill me for all this improperly titled late night posting, but let's don't wake him just yet, ok?)
Dear DVD Makers:
It's really rude, lame, and annoying when you only put two episodes of the show on one DVD. I know you make more money when you sell "The Complete 8-Disc Series" vs. the 7-Disc version, but really- only two? Some of us have short attention spans, and you should keep in mind that there is stiff competition for our limited viewing time. Package correctly, or lose your place in the queue, and likely my interest, forever.
Love,
CD
You know, you can lecture me all day long about "intellectual property rights" and those poor, starving rock musicians who would all be progressive millionaire activists if only I'd pay $24.99 for a CD. But it's shit like this that makes me a post-consumerist radical. Do not tell me I could not come up with a better scheme of compensating the actual producers of creative content than the system we have now. I'm getting screwed (I have to pay more to read/hear/view less) and I know the artists are NOT getting richer as a result of this process. Who is? Well, you know the answer to that as well as I do. People so far up the chain from the creative process as to be alien to it completely. Fuck
that.
I won't predict what the market will look like in the future, but I will say that the dinosaurs are working hard to bring about their own demise. How I won't pity you when you're gone, just as I will laugh to know that your "business model" and your slavish devotion to it is what killed you. Choke on the irony, capitalists. Not to seem gratuitously habitual in my reading patterns, but My Lord of the Grey Towers has been saying the same thing of late.
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Heroes HD-DVD is the same
well, on the first DVD anyway. Just got the second one from netflix yesterday. Is that what you're watching? I wondered if it was a space issue, from a Gigabyte perspective.
Not sure if the front load
Why do they need to put Episodes 1-6 on DVD1 and 7-9 on DVD2? Are they hoping people who can only afford to buy disc1 will eventually save up for disc2 thinking it also has 6 epsiodes?
memo to dvd maker dudes
You DO NOT want to fuck with chicago dyke.
Take a lesson from Arrested Development: 8 episodes per DVD
Also, the funniest thing, evah.
Just sayin'.
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
not "heroes," MissM
i watched 2 eps of that over at the sis' house. it was...not really my thing.
heh, i won't say which one i was staying up too late to watch. because really, that's not the point. obviously i'm not the only one to have this problem. i recall another show i thought about buying, and decided not to because it was packaged 2eps per disc. at 20$ a pop.
i can wait. for ebay, youtube, whatever. no TV is that important to me, and even if TV viewing was the most important thing in my life, i'd be really old before i went thru everything already available. it's weird, they created us- the never completely satisfied consumer who always demands change, and "more." but sometimes they forget that, and try to impose an obviously flawed business model. i guess some of them are just stupid like that.
Intellectual Freedom
"Intellectual Property Rights" is a right-wing idea. Copyright for a limited time (7 years) was provided for in the constitution to encourage publishers to publish new works for the spread of knowledge. It now serves not only as economic monopoly but as putting the power to censor speech into private hands. Material published shortly before you were born is owned throughout your life and long after you're dead, so that the owner can control where and how it appears, and even sue parodists for infringement. This is so ridiculous that you should just note that "intellectual property rights" are illegitimate without trying to figure out how to modify the rightwing view of the sanctity of bogus "property rights".