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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by mjevans on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:41PM (#16119833)
Really, what I want is to just buy an unencumbered digital version that isn't screwed up.

Give me something like the steam experience but without even the "DRM" of that.

Also set a reasonable price point. 5 USD for a SEASON of a great show sounds like a good high price starting point. Make it inexpensive for me to GIFT seasons to others as well. Maybe 2.50 for the first season to someone else, and then lower in cost after that.

How to increase profits? Stop the lobbying, consumer-fighting-disservice, and DRM insanity and just focus on making a good product and delivering it in an EASY way for consumers to get.

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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by toast0 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:52PM (#16128305)
$5 USD is probably too low, depending on the length of the season; $2 USD / disc probably covers manufacturing and distribution (for Blu-Ray; DVD manufacturing maybe $1 USD), but you need something to pay for the talent too.
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by mjevans on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:03PM (#16208967)
Clarifying, download + standard license to the copyrighted content in all formats in perpetuity only.
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