> No parent will pay $10-$20 month
That's literally what my family used to pay in VHS rentals. One new release and one weekly movie, three or four times a month.
That's literally what my family used to pay in VHS rentals. One new release and one weekly movie, three or four times a month.
Without the need for Blockbuster retail stores, that's got to cut the price in half. Being able to keep your whole back catalog in a computer rack instead of buying warehouse space in 50 different countries has to halve the costs again, surely. Account for actual material costs, factories to make the cassettes, write them, produce the cases. What are we down to now ...
$1 a month for buying 6 new movies sounds more like it.
http://www.cdncalc.com/ says it's about 34p. Suggesting it's not trivial, but ~10% of the prior cost.
Not a solid analysis but indicative IMO. Bet someone else has done all the [other] costings and probably quite rigorously?