$25 to rent a movie? What??
Personally I would never pay for a PVOD release. It’s best to use that money to buy the Blu-ray, at least then you actually get to keep it.
PVOD is such a stupid rip-off. It’s basically just making sure the good quality pirated version gets out before the movie is available for a reasonable renting price.
PVOD is pretty good, actually, IMHO better than streaming. Renting isn’t perfect, but I’d rather pay $5 to watch something one night than subscribe to something for $12/mo so I can watch the same thing with ads.
$25 ain’t bad if it’s an indefinite rental, but paying so much for 48 hour access is insane! It’s not like you’re getting a premium experience in a theater or something, in which case I get it.
I disagree. Paying $25 for a family of 4 and having the added bonus of not putting up with theater bullshit (e.g. ridiculous candy prices and asshole people) seems like a damn good deal.
Nobody’s making you buy candy. And people at the theaters actually aren’t that bad.
If PVOD rentals were still in theaters you’d have a point, and that applies for the movies mentioned in the articles. But most movies on PVOD are out of the theaters.
So you’re mad that check notes pirates will have it in good quality before you rent it? Then… Be a pirate? Or don’t worry about the pirates and just worry about yourself? I’m… not seeing your particular issue. Pirates will get it regardless so how does that factor in at all?
I’m a good little consumer. I pay my Disney tax. But, errrm, “PVOD” just means “Prepare VPN, Or Delay.” At this point in my life and the media landscape, it’s mostly “Delay.”
Ohhh, so that’s why these movies came out on the open seas so quickly. I guess it’s an unintended consequence of their greed.
Yo ho ho, I wouldn’t know
