Re:Introducing Vdio
by mikeryan on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:16PM
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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.
Re:Introducing Vdio
by qualia on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:36PM
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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?
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...