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Re:Introducing Vdio by MatthewPhillips on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:03PM (#5488300)
In that scenario most of the content you are paying for multiple times. Or you can look at it as the redundant content is free and you're paying $7.99/month for House of Cards.

Wouldn't it be better if prices for the content you want were more reasonable? Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7. And buy an old movie for $0.25?

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Re:Introducing Vdio by mikeryan on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:16PM (#5488741)
Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7

I'd like to buy a new porsche for $10k but that's not happening either.

Most of Netflix's shows cost over $4M an episode[1]. Taking that as a base you've got a cost of $48M a season (these are production costs not total cost, at $7 a season you need 7M subscribers just to break even ). Considering most shows have less then 4M viewers a night your pricing model pretty much is just throwing money away.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/netflixs-cost-for-house-of-ca...

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Re:Introducing Vdio by qualia on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:36PM (#5489314)
If it were to be used, how would advertising factor into this? Not saying $7/season is viable but could a low price be buffered out by advertiser sponsorship?
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