Fox Removes Special Features from Rental DVDs

That is going to be annoying, it turns out I'll have to buy more movies instead of renting now. Well at least I'll feel as I'm getting something for my money that I can't get way cheaper.

That is actually an idea that could really work... to an extent. Most people I know don't bother to watch special features, but I enjoy checking those out if I like the movie enough. Damn is that evil of you, Fox.

Uhh, kay?
What's the purpose behind this? Anyone who wants to watch the special features bad enough have probably bought the film already and for every other film out there most people couldn't give two shits about special features.

You know, that really is a good idea. It kind of sucks, but it's a clever way to push that many more people to actually purchase the DVD.

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That's one of the smartest business plans ever. I was going to buy Slumdog Millionaire anyway.

Well, I can understand if some people don't care about special features, but personally, I like seeing how the movie was made.  There may be movies that I KNOW I won't buy because the list of special features isn't that great.  I mean, I'm sorry...but $20 to OWN a DVD in my house...is fucking ridiculous.  DVDs have been around now for HOW LONG?  The prices haven't shifted THAT much in the last 10 years.  Maybe a $5.00 drop in MSRP, but that's about it.  For $20, I better get more than just the fucking movie.  Otherwise, it better be dirt cheap or bargain binning.

Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox) has got to get a way to raise profit levels, last year his NewsCorp business lost $6.4 Billion. Serves him and his company right, fucking scumbag. I hope this economic collapse hits some companies hard in the FACE!!!

I can support the removal of Special Features from rental DVDs...if they fucking drop the ridiculous prices for renting a movie at a place like Blockbuster. $5-6 for one movie rental is absolutely ridiculous. I can see rental stores not liking this idea though. I think this could potentially hurt the sales on pre-owned copies of such DVDs.

This is actually a really good idea. I don't think people will stop renting movies because of it but the real movie buffs, who want to see everything will need to buy them.

I see their point. If you rent the DVD, you get to watch the movie... buy = more. I don't have a problem with that.

Is it FOX who are still trying to push for unskippable advertisements on DVDs? I remember reading about that a while ago and it sounds like the worst thing ever.

I think News Corp should sell off/kill off MySpace instead to make money back, but this is still a pretty good idea.

This idea might actually work....but I don't like it. I do like to still go to Blockbuster now and then and pick up the sweet deals they have with used DVDs, so this will definitely affect how much or if I even do that again. I also am starting to go over to Blu-Ray, so...if this doesn't affect it I may not have that big of a problem.

Still, it might actually work as a business plan but I don't like how Fox is sort of segregating their market. Not everyone wants to buy new DVDs that still cost upwards of $20 just to see it once and watch the special features, but they should get that on the rental. Taking that away from the renting audience may cause some uproar.

People watch the specials? Most of the time it's just audio commentary that is 90% of the time god awful.

Here, let me explain this in a different point of view for some of you to understand how BAD this is for rental chains:

Really? You're going to argue that Fox is forcing people out of their jobs with this action? Melodramatic, much?

Lulz.

"Weltal said:

"Really? You're going to argue that Fox is forcing people out of their jobs with this action? Melodramatic, much?"

If anything, we've seen what small moves can do in this economy lately..."

That's why there's always Torrents.

Fuck them?

I could care less for two reasons. The first is that they don't make that many good movies (as shown by jakob). The second is that Special Features consist of stuff I ignore. Who listens to audio commentaries anyways?

I dont even the last time that i watched a movie made by fox, so i can't say it'll effect me much. The two movies of theirs that i own are Borat and Dodgeball. If other studios start to do this, i will probably buy fewer movies in boycott. After all, if they remove the Special Features, and I'm renting a movie to see if i want to buy it, then the lack of special features may mean the difference between a must-buy and a bargin-bin buy.

I don't have a problem with this. I'm not concerned with most extras when renting a DVD. If I like a film I will usually go onto buying a copy.

I can't tell how effective this will be, but I agree with it. Contrary to my thoughts on Fox's propagandist machine, most commonly/counter-intuitively known as Fox "News," Fox Studios is an entirely competent movie-production entity, one that I have no beef with. I would do the same, if not more, in their shoes. Rental is killing the video store.

Fox is retarded. That's all there is to it.  Everyone knows this. Hell even Fox makes fun of Fox

"Keyser_Soze said:

"Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox) has got to get a way to raise profit levels, last year his NewsCorp business lost $6.4 Billion. Serves him and his company right, fucking scumbag. I hope this economic collapse hits some companies hard in the FACE!!!"

To be fair, Murdoch is much more mild these days. I can't say he's really a scumbag anymore. However, some of the people in his employ (Hannity) could be called traitorous or unpatriotic pretty easily."

I hope people start realizing that movies suck.

Once again, a company tries to bring in more money by being anti-consumer. Not every rental would have been a guaranteed sale; just as I posted in the question of the day about used games sales: A used sale (and rental) does not equate to a lost new sale.

Eelcire said:

"Once again, a company tries to bring in more money by being anti-consumer. Not every rental would have been a guaranteed sale; just as I posted in the question of the day about used games sales: A used sale (and rental) does not equate to a lost new sale."

What they would argue, though, is that doing this benefits them because if people see the movie and like it, they'd be more inclined to buy it and get the extra features, and dissuades from purchasing the copy from, say, Blockbuster because they'll get the neutered copy instead.

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I can't say I really care about this. I hardly ever rent movies and when I do, its usually an older movie. If I like a movie enough I buy it.

Usually there are two editions of a movie released anyway, the stripped edition usually hitting blockbuster rental shelves. I remember being able to rent the two disc edition of most movies, but now you'd be lucky to get so much as a commentary track when you rent a flick. I plan on buying the clusterfuck bundle super edition of Watchmen anyway, so this doesn't really affect me in that regard.

The last Fox movie I saw was The Simpsons, and that wasn't all that great. It's poor consistency in quality that costs them sales, not rentals.

NO!

Let rentals alone! They are the superior way to watch new movies (aside from a movie theater).