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Re:Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam by vidarh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:08AM (#11571489)
While Amazon offers you a lot of DVDs for less than that price, it also offers you a substantial amount of rentals via Instant Video at well above that price.

I'm going to assume - not least because we've paid for those rentals more than once - that they have a good idea about how to set the prices.

Movies that are interchangeable light entertainment will go cheap. Movies people seek out or decide they really want will cost more.

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Re:Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam by lfowles on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:48PM (#11575009)
Funny, this is about the same price DVDs are on Amazon for me. $.01+$3.99 shipping. For something I just want to watch once, I think I'd come out ahead with Steam (not have to find a space for the DVD or ripped copy, etc).
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