{"id":1562,"date":"2010-01-29T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2010-01-29T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:52:31","slug":"re-youtube-users-pass-on-paying-for-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/re-youtube-users-pass-on-paying-for-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: YouTube Users Pass on Paying for Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Ryan here’s my response to your piece on YouTube Users Passing on movie rentals<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been only 48 hours and you’re already killing it?<\/strong>
\nI didn’t even know this was up already. <\/p>\n

You have to let the service up for a little longer to make any judgments of these sorts.<\/p>\n

However… being Devil’s advocate<\/strong> I’m with you on this one, it’s not gonna fly far, not even with cool blockbuster movies.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to be a genius to understand that $3.99 seems a little too high for “renting” a movie to watch it on your computer, specially for a crowd that’s used to come to youtube for a bunch of short free video fixes.<\/p>\n

This business model down the line won’t be a significant source of revenue for youtube, they’ll have to revisit their strategy and copy the Netflix flat rate model; Pay every month a flat fee and stream all you want from the ever growing catalog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Netflix flat fee model is the best available and the markets also like it; Netflix’s market cap ($NFLX) is now over $3 billion and Blockbuster’s has been reduced to a mere ($BBI) $70 million.<\/p>\n

From a customer’s perspective I would never rent “on demand” films at $3.99 each, not even from my cable company and I’d be watching it on a big screen sitting comfy in my living room couch. <\/p>\n

I rather stream to my heart’s contempt all I want without having to take my wallet out every time.<\/p>\n

Flat Rates FTW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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