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Comments on: 3D = Anti piracy? http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Brad http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22769 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:34 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22769 I actually thought the movie was really good. The story is the typical archtypical story of good vs evil

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22754 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:20:31 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22754 “Given that the themes and story quality of both films was equally awful, the only explanation (in my opinion at least) is that the piracy level of Avatar must be significantly lower than that of The Dark Night.”

What …

Dark Knight had a story, some of the acting was a little weak – but it had depth.

Avatar was an overblown, slow moving, poorly acting, graphical wankfest – although it was pretty it had as much depth as a thimble.

]]> By: Simeon Pilgrim http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22750 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:09:55 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22750 Another option maybe (well for NZ at least) is that it costs nearly twice as much to see a 3D movie, thus the more revenue. Same numbers of people, but larger ticket cost. What would be interesting to see is scaling movie revenue to a fixed ticket price, so then compare actual ticket sale, not inflation… But suspect that would be a negative outcome for modern movies, so we don’t hear that stat.

]]> By: Tweets that mention TVHE » 3D = Anti piracy? -- Topsy.com http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22749 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:44:28 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22749 […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by MikeE and Matt Nolan, Pirate Info. Pirate Info said: TVHE » 3D = Anti piracy? http://bit.ly/cJx12G […]

]]> By: Nitesh Patel @techmadly http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22748 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:07:33 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22748 avatar is yep lower than dark night but the creativity they had was unforgetable and most important they had some thing new not the comic always

]]> By: Nova http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22747 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:41:17 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22747 Media pirating is a failure of the market to respond to the demands of consumers. I suspect these figures are massively underestimated. People haven’t suddenly become more dishonest, cinema is just in long term decline. If you have a HD projector/TV, 5.1 surround sound, a reclining leather sofa, a fridge full of beer and snacks – why would you want to go to the cinema? It takes most films 6-9 months to become available to home consumers – because the film industry insist we must go to the cinema to watch new films. It used to make sense when cinema’s had a distinct technological advantage. Now they don’t, but the industry is clinging on to the business model.

Time to innovate. How about charging £20 for a 24/48 hour home licence for the new film and make it available for download? Minimal overheads for producers/distributors and mass market exposure (the internet is straight to market!).

This won’t happen, not because its a bad idea, but because it would be revolutionary and the fat cats have their fingers in the cinema pie.

]]> By: StephenR http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2010/01/27/3d-anti-piracy/#comment-22744 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:55:45 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=4663#comment-22744 Something that might help is that Avatar was reported as having made $80 million in China, the hotbed of movie piracy and therefore notorious for seeing poor performances from cinema releases – compare the relevant figures for Avatar and the Dark Knight and you could be a lot surer, I think. Unfortunately as i have just found out, TDK was not released in China at ALL due to ‘cultural sensitivities’. So maybe some other blockbuster – Titanic?

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