BlockBusters VS. DVD Pirates

This is just my personal experieance. You can agree or disagree....doesn't matter. I'm just looking for for you opinion.
I've been a member of BlockBuster for 5 years. In those 5 years I've rented over 600 videos.
I rent on average 2 or 3 a week or more. I work 2nd shift and my wife works 1st shift so I often rented movies on my way home from work and watched them at night and left them for my wife to watch on her own but she didn't watch them because she didn't have time in the 2 days that I had to have them back or get a late fee....I had LOT"S OF LATE FEES!!!!
So I bought a DVD burner......sue me...
With DVD X COPY and NERO I could rent a movie for $4.23 watch it and burn it and my wife could watch it agian any time she wanted. Before I knew it I had a library of over 50 dvd's.
I thought this was great!!!

BlockBuster has come out with a new program in my area, I don't know if everyone has this deal yet or not.....here it is....
For $29.00 a month I can have unlimited rentals....NO LATE FEES!!.. :D I can have 2 movies at a time for as long as I want....take them back get 2 more..ANYTIME!!!
I Jumped at this deal because I was spending more then this a moth anyway.

Well, now I don't pirate dvd's anymore....what's the point? If I see a movie and take it back and my wife wants to see it later she can go get it and it doesn't cost anything.

Was this BlockBusters way of trying to cut back on dvd pirates?
Am I just the exception?
I know that there are many reasons for dvd copy's...."rent a movie, copy it, sell it$$$"....etc.
Is this deal available anywhere else, or just here?

What's your opinion?

Yeah the local BlockBuster near me have a deal similar to the one your getting.
And there also trying to use DVD disc that won't work any more if you copy them..
And there introducing a DVD disk that will not work after 24 hrs, so you pay $24 dollars for a movie, you watch it and after 24hrs the disk will cease to work anymore, it's a way for them to stamp out the piraters i guess, as there the kind of deals that you'd be stupid to knock back..
cheers
f2b:.

How can that be effective? I'll simply pop in my DVD2SVCD and do the job, or copy the disc, then view the copy and take back the original. The average person doesn't bother trying to make illegal copies, while those that are prone to doing so will find a way to bypass most security devices pretty quick.

Why would somebody possibly pay $24 for a movie? What kind of a BlockBuster is that???

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Or if it's pirated software that you are talking about... why would anybody pay that much? I know a place that sells illegal DVDs for 2 or 3 bucks [I think, never visited myself but a friend went].
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Why would somebody possibly pay $24 for a movie? What kind of a BlockBuster is that???

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No. For $25 a month you get unlimited rental. After you pay your $25 monthly fee you just pick out 2 movies at no additional charge. Watch them then bring them back that day if you want and get 2 more movies. If you rented 2 movies a day for a month it would work out to about 180-200 dollars a month so its a pretty good deal. Here you get unlimited video games for 3months for $45

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Originally posted here by muert0
Here you get unlimited video games for 3months for $45

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I don't think that's quite as good of a deal because video games usually take awhile to finish. If you had unlimited time to kill it might be worth it but for the average busy person - who has time for more than 1-2 video games in 3 months?

When I'm playing video games I go through 1 about every month. When I'm done with them they just sit there collecting dust. So, I don't think $15 a month isn't too bad.

is was supposed to be isn't

couldn't you just play the game, return it after a month then rent it again?

thats why blockbuster has a deal where for $20 a month, you get unlimited rentals and no late fees. You can rent up to 2 movies at a time, and when you return those two movies, u can get 2 more....and u never pay late fees.

Cybr1d:

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Here you get unlimited video games for 3months for $45

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Meaning for video games he can only have them for 3 months

You can get online ones as well

there is one in the UK - can't remember addy but if i come across it again will post

you pay like £15 a month and you can rent three dvds at once....you set up your list online of the dvds you want - they post you the first 3 form your list - keep them as long as you want - pop them in the supplied return envelope

once they recieve one back they send you the next on the list and so on

but then again if you ahve a fast connection and bit-torrent/ares/k++/IRC etc and some time most people will choose to pay £0 over £15

but to ensure proper DVD quality movies rather than wondering if the file thats just taken you 2hrs to download is even goin to be the right movie I dont think £15 is too much to ask ;)

v_Ln

lol i used to prefer 1wk downloading then $20 :p (when i was on 56k)

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couldn't you just play the game, return it after a month then rent it again?

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At blockbuster if you rent a game on the regular rates it's like $3-5 for 3 days. If you don't take the game back to the store after that they charge you $3-5 dollars a day in late fees. So if you just keep the game for a month without this deal it'll cost $84 at the least.

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Originally posted here by .:front2back:.
And there introducing a DVD disk that will not work after 24 hrs, so you pay $24 dollars for a movie, you watch it and after 24hrs the disk will cease to work anymore, it's a way for them to stamp out the piraters i guess, as there the kind of deals that you'd be stupid to knock back..
cheers
f2b:.

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Originally posted by muert0
No. For $25 a month you get unlimited rental.

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Hmm sense the difference?

Just so you guys know, www.netflix.com is just about the same. It's like 20 bucks and they send you the package to ship the movies back in and everything. You are allowed three movies per time, though, with it, and you can like send one back but keep two, then get another one and send two back and get two more... what I mean is that you can keep a total of three at any point in time with no extra charge or anything, simply 20 per month. It's kinda neat.

So will these deals deter dvd piracy?
In my case it has.....why would I spend $1.00 for a dvd and an hour of my time to have a copy of a movie that I can simply go back to Blockbuster and get again and not have to pay $4.23

I think this was a very shrewd move on the part of the movie industry in cooperation with Blockbuster... to discourage dvd piracy???....

I also think that Blockbuster has to be loosing some money on late fee's and re-rentals so they must be being compinsated in some way. I know that they are loosing money from me!
I'm watching more movies and paying less each month than I used to.

Nah,

Think of it. why does it get cheaper when you buy more blanks ? Quantity.

Now block buster is a huge company buying hundreds of thousands of DVDs they get them cheap enough that they just don't care !

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Originally posted here by .:front2back:.
And there introducing a DVD disk that will not work after 24 hrs, so you pay $24 dollars for a movie, you watch it and after 24hrs the disk will cease to work anymore,

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F2B-

That has already come and gone in the form of DIVX.
I can't find anything on the old stuff now, but when DVDs and DVD players forst came out, Circuit City was pushing DIVX movies. They were basically self-expiring VCDs. You could only watch them for around 3 days...

The reason they stopped selling them was because people didn't undertstand the difference between the DIVX movies and DVDs. Eventually, they caught on, and stopped buying them.