Ski Movies - Free Download after X amount of time

Twig

Twig

Administrator
Staff member
I've been thinking about this and i decided it's worth discussing. Hell it beats another style/hate thread. Anyway I was thinking that after the season is over, film companies (especially the smaller ones) should put up their films as free mid quality downloads. Now I know that these films cost alot to make and sales is how companies hope to regain their money but I have two points here:
1) The more people that see a movie the more value it is to sponsors and therefore if the sponsor knows come may/june another (random figure) 5,000 people will download the movie then they will cough up more sponsorship.
2) Sales must be almost non-existent by this time of year. Everyone who was going to buy it already has. People who want to see the film will pay their 20 dollars in fall, not wait 6 months in the knowledge that a poorer quality download will be available in 6 months.
Now I have a vested interest in this because I'm in europe and we don't get some of the films I want to see. I just can't buy them. I still want to see Look It Up and Wanderland but I can't find them anywhere. So to these companies (4bi9 (well its kind of a company) and Meathead) and any others post a comment here. Tell me why i'm wrong.
 
I think putting them on iTunes for $3 is fair enough. Even though I bought and downloaded those movies in March, and now they don't work.
 
Well if they are on itunes they are only on the US itunes so that doesn't really change much. If they were on all itunes for that price then i guess that would be fair.
 
Even canada's itunes store doesn't have full length movies yet.

But i think they should just make the movies dirt cheap. like 5 bucks. and in 4bi9s position, free since the movie was originally like 9 bucks. Or you could just pay the 9 bucks. Not that much money.
 
i think everyone is missing my point. Firstly I can't get them in the right format for any amount of money as far as i know. And secondly in three months they will release another movie so why not make the previous one available.
 
I think they should just do what the spotlight project did. Have a download for a dollar, and then sell the movie also for like 10 bucks.
 
I totally agree with that. Perhaps the bigger names will charge more, like $5 download and $25 DVD (with bonus features of course...), guys like PBP, L1P, it would be dope.

Although, from the company's prospective, if they only make it available on DVD, those who want it will have to pay it. You either pay DVD price or don't get it, so most likely you'll buy it. And they earn more.

But I do agree, towards the end of a season a movie should get cheaper, or downloads should be made available for like $5. Like a movie released on DVD in Fall 07 for $25 will turn into a $15 DVD and $5 download. I suppose some will wait, but other's will certainly buy/pre-order.

 
I can see where you are coming from with the cheap download idea.. i think that would work in much the same way. I would definitely pay the $3-5 or so for the films I mentioned. But i still think that the companies would achieve a wider distribution by releasing them free at season end. This would promote their next film and could widen the market.
 
I'm sure one of the 4bi9ers could organise a copy of LIU to be sent over to you..then you have it in hard copy, mad quality! plus the support!
 
True but unless its a universal format dvd, i wont be able to play it in my euro zone dvd player..
 
^ Most (all?) ski movies are multi region. I'm pretty certain 4bi9 wouldn't restrict theirs.
 
When you burn DVDs you have the option to burn in PAL, if the 4bi9 made their own DVDs (instead of having something duplicate them professionally) I **think** they could try burning you a copy but do it as a PAL disc instead of NTSC.

Not fully sure if this would work, I'm not sure if the footage has to be shot in PAL to be burned in that format.
 
well if 4bi9 or meathead can ship me those films then i would paypal them the money.. but that doesn't really change my point.. it'd be cool if some of the industry heads could say why its a bad idea to distribute free at season end i'd be interested
 
i base a lot of my choices for movies of the next year by what i see this year or previous years, by watching movies i can tell which one i like so its cool when a company posts a short segment, not even the whole movie in order to show what kind of movies they make - it not only would make tons of people happy but would create exposure for them - i like his idea but the entire movie does not need to be posted - the company could/should just post some stuff from their movie two years ago if they don't want people to see the newer one

but in respect to buying you can just contact the companies and they'll hook you up
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top