Would You Pay $50 to Watch New Movies at Home?

I would pay $50. If you have a family of 4 or 5 you're paying nearly $50 in admission alone. You throw in the cost of popcorn or drinks if you do get them you're over $50 as it is. Now paying $150 upfront for the Set-top-box is a different story. I could see myself getting if you got one or two free movies of your choosing with the purchase of the set-top-box. Now if you get unlimited watching in that 48-hour window then that wouldn't make it all that bad.
 
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I think I'd pay more if that $50 movie allowed multiple screenings. A week pass or something.

If Blu-ray release is 4 months away, I can usually wait. Then pay half the cost and actually own (well.....) the movie and watch it at my leisure whenever I wanted. For some blockbusters, though, it might be worth it. Save me an hour trip to the good theater.
 
grtitan said:
Lets See, 5 bucks for subway and pray you dont get slashed in the face (NYC), plus the traveling time.
The ticket can go as high as 21 bucks (NYC), plus 10 or 15 for pop corn.
Lastly, dealing with some asshole whom might think is a great idea to be on his/her cell phone, kicking your seat, talk loud or any other fun things.

I'm more than happy to pay the 50 bucks. And if I have ONE guest willing to share the price, I will be already winning.

So yes, where do I sign?
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My thoughts exactly. I'd pay that $50 in a heartbeat to be able to enjoy a good film without dealing with the typical assholes that fill theaters nowadays. The last time I got a baby sitter and took my wife to the movies it cost me well over $100 (tickets, snacks and sitter fee).
 
Zepher said:
I few years ago when I had the projector I may have considered it, but now with a 50" Plasma, I wouldn't.
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I don't understand this infatuation with screen size. I have an 51" TV 3 feet from me, yet 99% of the time I watch movies on my 26" monitor.

I mean why is a 100" projected screen better? You're just going to sit further away from it.
 
Yes. I have a really nice projector and sound system and could have a social for it. $50 is pennies when it comes to a days entertainment with friends. Byob dinner party where your friend bring food. Once a month. $50 would be worth it.
 
Actually I would.. If lets say 2-4 weeks delay, and 2-4 weeks viewing window. 50$ for a monthly service of ALL new releases, sounds good to me. It would be a very serious consideration. I think at 50$ a month movie producers could make a lot of money.
 
M76 said:
I don't understand this infatuation with screen size. I have an 51" TV 3 feet from me, yet 99% of the time I watch movies on my 26" monitor.

I mean why is a 100" projected screen better? You're just going to sit further away from it.
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ehh bigger is better.
 
Although I've only seen two movies at the theater in the past 15 years, I'd gladly pay $50 to not deal with all the dumbasses and nastiness next time I wanted to watch a new release.
 
What makes them think $50 is a sane price? Oh yeah, they are greedy movie studios. Perhaps they think only an entire family goes to see movies? A single person would pay $50 to watch by themselves? LOL

A $15 ticket at the theater includes the costs of the expensive equipment to play the movie (and glasses if 3D). Plus seating and air conditioning. When you are paying for all this from your own pocket in your house, a significant portion is now removed. So a fair price would be more like $8-10 - the price of a movie ticket minus the cost of them needing to pay for a building and equipment. Who pays for the physical assets anyway? I'm doubting it's the movie studios. So it should probably be even less.
 
M76 said:
I don't understand this infatuation with screen size. I have an 51" TV 3 feet from me, yet 99% of the time I watch movies on my 26" monitor.

I mean why is a 100" projected screen better? You're just going to sit further away from it.
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Do you ever go to the movie theater? Why? You're just sitting far away from the screen.

It makes a big difference to me. At least for the home theater. I can watch TV fine with a 27" monitor. It works great. For a good movie experience, the home theater with big screen and nice audio setup makes a huge difference.

Different folks, different strokes.
 
There's no point to these prices anymore. Most big budget movies are released globally. There are now BILLIONS of potential viewers. From a "necessary $ per view to makes tons of money" perspective, movie prices should be holding or going down and not going up. And making must-see day one releases available in homes you should be able to entice orders of magnitude more people to pony up to watch vs. going to a theater.

The end result should be a fairly affordable view price. It SHOULD be less than the cost of a single movie ticket since no cut needs to go to operate the physical theater.

So... what the hell?

Basic mental exercise: If the new Star Wars would have been somehow made available globally in home on opening weekend for $10 for the night... do you estimate the studio to make more or less money than they did through the theater chains on opening weekend? It's nothing but the cost of digital distribution, plus credit card transaction fees.

Remember I'm talking about the STUDIO's cut. Not some theater chain. Leave physical theaters out of this.
 
ShagnWagn said:
What makes them think $50 is a sane price? Oh yeah, they are greedy movie studios. Perhaps they think only an entire family goes to see movies? A single person would pay $50 to watch by themselves? LOL

A $15 ticket at the theater includes the costs of the expensive equipment to play the movie (and glasses if 3D). Plus seating and air conditioning. When you are paying for all this from your own pocket in your house, a significant portion is now removed. So a fair price would be more like $8-10 - the price of a movie ticket minus the cost of them needing to pay for a building and equipment. Who pays for the physical assets anyway? I'm doubting it's the movie studios. So it should probably be even less.
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Depending on whose telling it - most ticket prices make up the cost to the studio. Very little goes to the theater. The theater makes up it's money with the high priced concessions. Not sure what the margins are, though.
 
Nope, with a Costco membership me and my wife can go see a movie in the theater for $22. Combo includes 2 movie passes, 2 medium popcorns and 2 medium pops, we just wait 1-2 weeks after it comes out and see a really late showing to avoid dealing with annoying as fuck teens/kids and its fine. (The exception being deadpool, we both had to see that opening weekend lol). For $40 I can get all that plus two more passes for my kids and a kids combo for both (pop, popcorn and candy).
 
No I wouldn't pay $10 to watch a movie. I will wait for it to come to the library.
 
Ur_Mom said:
Nope. For my whole family (4 people), we can get tickets and popcorn/soda for around that price at the good theater. Almost half that on $5 night.

Lower the price, and sure. I'd go for it. $30 a show? Yes. $50? No way. Too high. But, it'll be high to make the theater owners happy. Lowball them, and shit will hit the fan.



Get off my lawn! Welcome to technology. My Grandpa said the same thing with VCR's and shit. Just lazy and wanted to watch things on our time and not when it's on the TV. Yes, it's the gotta have it now generation. That's the point of technology - to make our lives better, more efficient, etc. so we can do less work. Work smarter, not harder.
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Nothing wrong with working hard or doing more work than you need to & getting the job done correctly. You might even learn something in the process. Problem is with Technology is that it makes people dumb & lazy, then they defend it by saying "Work smarter not Harder".

Same thing my old boss used to say, he was a lazy fuck too.
 
I never go to the theater.

I rent it from Redbox.

If it's good I buy BD.

I have it for the rest of my life.

Total cost on average. $23.00 New / Old $4.99 to $7.99

350 BD total
 
Definitely, for a really good movie. Even if it's just me and one other person, I can spend the $$ I would've spent on concessions on beer and better food.
 
Not $50 on a regular basis. For my wife and I to see a movie it's $14 in tickets and about the same in concessions. It's a night out though and usually preceded or followed by supper out. Getting out of the house is nice once in awhile. We see maybe two movies a month.
 
Oh that security device to help you view these movies is also a camera that that will count the number of people in the room and charge you $50 for each person. At least that's how I expect it might work lol
 
I spend 50 bucks for just the tickets if it's a family movie outing so this is a no brainer. I have a projector already and a 110" screen with/ surround sound in the basement that we use for football parties. I would never go to another movie theater again if this became a reality.
 
I want to know how Mr. Napsterbook plans on stopping people from setting up an HD camera on a tripod 3 feet from the screen and flooding the torrent sites with day one releases.
 
I am a cheap moviegoer. I see it at $5 (early hours on the weekends, even opening weekend) and don't buy anything else. The food and drinks at the theaters is just too damn expensive to buy. You guys who complain about the expensive nights spending $100 for 4 people need to stop complaining or stop buying all of that expensive food and drinks. Then again, I am a cheap bastard.:D
 
Steve said:
I want to know how Mr. Napsterbook plans on stopping people from setting up an HD camera on a tripod 3 feet from the screen and flooding the torrent sites with day one releases.
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They can't. This would make high quality cam torrents available so damn fast.
 
Nope. I'll just wait for it to come out on blu-ray like I currently do and buy it outright.

Speaking of, I'm looking forward to getting to watch the new star wars here pretty soon.
 
Nah. Even the best home theater isn't as good as the better theaters and I can see movies in those for as little as 6 bucks and generally 8-10.
 
nilepez said:
Nah. Even the best home theater isn't as good as the better theaters.
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NOPE

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amddragonpc said:
$50 dollars? Now THAT's a 1-percenter price right there.
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How so. It isn't aimed at college students or 20 somethings with roomates to stream solo on their laptop. However lets say you are married with the national average of a wee bit over 2 kids.. we'll round down to two.

Disney squeezes out something the kids want to see. It's going to cost, with no concessions, 1 adult and 2 kids minimum. I take them right after lunch on a Saturday to the nearest run of the mill theater. That's $26.49 minimum. 2 adults and 2 kids? $36.54. At matinée prices. Do it after dinner, and it is $38.54. One large popcorn and a large drink for the kids to split, and you are over $50.

Lets say mom and dad want to go out. $22.10 for tickets. $40 for a babysitter for the evening minimum. $63 bucks and we have to deal with teenagers and work around a sitters schedule or pay WAY more. If you want to avoid the teenagers, you cna go to the one place in the area that serves booze and is 18+. You are talking over $70 total then.

This isn't 1% shit, these are a demographic who go to a LOT less movies than they used to and might go to more if they were made accessible in a different manner. The price isn't that far off what it costs to go now and in some cases is cheaper. The real PITA is the $150 set top box. Because that means the price to beat is more like $60 if you amortize it over say two years.

I don't know why theaters chains wouldn't buy in if given a cut, I'm pretty sure the split in people who think it is viable vs. not in this thread falls down the divide of "I go out with my friends and it costs me $12" vs. "fuck it's a PITA to get a babysitter and/or I really hate the general public"
 
After I mentioned it to the wife, she said she would totally pay $50 to be able to sit at home in comfort, with our friends, pause when you want, eat dinner, drink what you want etc. Maybe only 3-4 a year but still. As it is I only go to the movies about once a year (last was Star Wars - she didn't go, before that I think it was Jurassic World). If you can watch the movie a couple times in 48 hour period, even better.

I mean, sheesh, we just paid $60 to see the UFC fight at home when some friends came over, so yeah. It has to be on a device I already own though (PS4, PC, something) I'm not buying a $150 box to play movies 3 times a year.

@ /usr/sbin : I likes. No echo problems with the hard floor? Mrs would never allow a proj in the living room, but I bet I could get up to 85" flat panel and she wouldn't bitch much.
 
I'd pay $50 to watch Cloverfield tomorrow in my house. Already going to the theater and that's going to end up costing me and a friend more than $50 right there. Have a 100" projection setup in my basement has been fantastic for movies (though no where near as nice as the one above!).
 
I might pay $50. If I take my family out, we are going to spend over $50 easily. I have a projector in my basement - it's not as good as the cinema, but I don't have jerks texting, talking, walking in front of me, etc. I would also hope I can pause the movie for a restroom break (but not sure about the details).
If my wife and I were seeing a movie by ourselves, $50 is a little pricey. However, sometimes we might be able to catch a movie after the kids go to bed. Right now, we both want to see Deadpool. We haven't had a lot of time, no babysitters, so maybe we would for this movies. If anything, it would be a 1-3 times a year event for us.
 
$50 Per show? Another proprietary piece of DRM laden hardware? Absolutely insane. I'll give some free advice to the film industry for how to make this work - make it a paid subscription service that is either A) Its own "premium channel" WHICH COSTS NO MORE than a typical premium channel/streaming service or B) Offer "upgraded" packages for existing premium services. That is to say, Netflix may be $10, but Netflix Cinema is $15 etc. Otherwise, most people just aren't going to pay for it. Ask a few more dollars a month for people, give them a highest-resolution, unencumbered (DRM garbage) experience and they likely will buy, but only if its a reasonable value.

The entertainment industry is basically throwing away lots of money because of their own shortsighted greed, but that's nothing new. They could have a simple way to get a huge volume of viewers who would normally wait the films to come out on post-release media, not have to share that revenue with theaters or deal with the logistics thereof etc.. so it would be win-win, if they could look past their own noses and see the benefit thereof. Subscribers would get access to first run movies to experience in their own home, for whatever that is worth (ie You don't have the IMAX theater experience ...well.. most don't., but you don't have the possible annoyances of the theater either), which would mean they'd be willing to watch more movies that they'd never pay for in theater, and thus keep the subscription active.
 
nilepez said:
That's nice, but it's not a 75' screen. I'd use that for Blu Rays, but I'm still going to a theater.
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I rather have that experience over a 75" screen. At 12 feet and a comfortable chair that creen above will look just as good if not better.
 
trentchau said:
I rather have that experience over a 75" screen. At 12 feet and a comfortable chair that creen above will look just as good if not better.
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You're going to the wrong theaters. The ones I goto have recliners and 3-4' between rows and there's absolutely no way you can get the same experience with a 75 or 80" screen..or even a 100" screen. I've watched movies on all of the above.

That said, I don't consider being able to pause a movie an advantage. I go to movies for an experience and interrupting it to have dinner, get a glass of wine or go to the bathroom (multiple times if you're watching with a half dozen people) is precisely why I'd rather go to a theater....that and most of the time the sound and video are better (but that depends on your theater)
 
Well, I don't like theaters, some of the reasons being: fight for seats and scheduling, other people (well, strangers, not friends) and the small gap between seats (you may argue there are better theaters, but not in my 2nd-largest-in-the-country town).
Now, I don't know about 50$, but for 25$ I wouldn't even blink. And it's still about 4 times more expensive than the theater tickets.
PS: my theater movie list is Alien 4, MI-2, Avatar (3D experiment), Avengers 2, SW7. For the latter I had to go alone. And I'm still angry on some of my friends because they did not "invite" me to Deadpool.
 
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