I wasn't entirely happy with streaming video. What was wrong with DVDs? But it's possible I could be quarantined or have to self-isolate before this thing is over, so now it seems pretty good. If they aren't closing movie theaters they should.
There was an article on RT worrying what this will do to working class and middle class workers in the movie industry. No one cares about the suffering of Tom Cruise, obviously, but what about everybody else? Streaming video was already reportedly harming people in television who don't get residuals for views online.
The trouble with DVD's is that there are a lot of movies you don't want to watch more than once.
The strange thing to me is the zero-budget filmmakers. Usually, their movies were available only on DVD, but they were charging a fortune for them, maybe thirty bucks each. And you're buying the thing sight unseen with few if any reviews. Maybe they knew what they were doing---maybe they were maximizing profits. But if they had been selling them for five or ten dollar each, I'd have bought them. Lots of them. I heard that one was charging $90 per DVD.
I don't know what all the other costs are, but I've seen companies that will produce 100 DVD's, packaged and shrink wrapped, for $1.85 each. Less if you order five hundred or a thousand.
Nollywood sells DVDs for a few dollars each and they're making a fortune.
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