Sounds like Google has found the best way to monetize
YouTube yet, and it puts itself in a pretty competitive spot versus the likes of
Netflix,
Amazon VOD, and Apple's iTunes movie store. According to
Wall Street Journal, the company's currently in talks with Lions Gate, Sony, and Warner Bros. studios over putting their content on YouTube for a rental fee, likely $3.99 -- the same price as Apple's SD movie rentals. Even more interesting is talk of getting some titles online day and date with the DVD releases. Some options could still be free with advertising, but as for paid content, Google's enticing studios over to their way of thinking with a proposed minimum fee of "just under $3 per title viewed." A three-month beta testing is apparently scheduled to begin soon among 10,000 Google employees, and after that? Well, here's hoping the G-Man manages to sign on some more studios and offer us the films in streaming HD.
posted September 2nd 2009 6:02PM
Sounds like a win for me, get the movie fully loaded and then go into my tmp folder and drag it into my videos.
$3 movies!
big g takes one more step closer to world domination. makes you wonder what will they do next...start abducting us and take us to the mother ship. lol..
$3? What are they, Blockbuster?
Redbox's $1-a-day DVDs has ruined me for other video services for good.
Given the fact that there isn't a bricks and mortar store to support, I'm not seeing why the rental price should be that high.
Re-price it at $.99 per rental, and I'll be a customer.
Does anyone but me realize how ridiculous it is to pay to watch "Night of the Living Dead"? It passed into the public domain a long time ago. You can go to hundreds of sites around the net and legally download it without a problem.