While Netflix caved to Warner’s demands for a 56-day waiting period on new release titles, Redbox refused and began a workaround effort to obtain Warner titles through alternate means. Judging by recent statements from both sides, Redbox and Warner still have a long way to go before they see eye-to-eye on the issue.
Warner Home Entertainment president Kevin Tsujihara, speaking at a recent media and telecom conference, said that negotiations are “ongoing with Redbox.
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Redbox, for its part, has been quick to claim that it’s doing just fine with its Warner workaround, thank you very much. Paul Davis, the CEO of Redbox’s parent Coinstar, recently said the following about the workaround:
“Thus far we’re very pleased . . . We’re getting the content out there, good national coverage, we’re meeting consumer demands. I would call it a success. You always prefer to have a direct deal, and of course we’d like to figure out a way to do that. We’ve got to get it to a place where it’s a win-win, and hopefully we’ll get there some day. But we asked the team when they started the workaround to put together a plan that would last not just for a few weeks but for many years.
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Both sides sound like they are interested in continued talks, at least on the surface. It was Redbox who eventually caved the last time the two companies danced this dance—who’s going to compromise this time around?
[via Home Media Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter]
Hey Redbox… open up a front company to pose as a distributor. Then you can get your hands on copy early and warner will be none the wiser. Reminds me of when Walt Disney created multiple front companies to buy the land that has become Walt Disney World. If the owners had realized who was purchasing the land the price would have skyrocketed.
They would figure that out in about 2 seconds, and its not worth bleeding money over to keep a front company open…
Warner Bros. will not give into redbox. Universal and 20th Studio Fox will follow suite with the 56 day wait. Red Box will you still be confident about the work around then?
Disney finally jumped on the bandwagon with 28 days, They will eventually get to 56 days. I believe we will all have to get used to the wait from all studios in time.
I’ll be fine. I just rent maybe one or two a week at best. The movies that come out are not great movies anyways. I’ll spend my 1.20 rather than about $20.00 for either the theater or buying.
Conclusion, I don’t care how long you push back the delay!
New Flash: Universal Extends 28 day window to April 2014
We’ll just have to wait to see what 20th Studio Fox will do. It just seems in the end all the greedy studios will follow suite eventually.
Worst part about this whole process is….
how long will it actually take the studios to realize the delay window (however long) is NOT going to force people to BUY thier DVD’s. Not one person I know has said “yeah I went out and bought Johnny English Reborn because I just couldn’t wait.
Newsflash: If anyone WERE that impatient to see the movie they would have seen it at the theater already!
Here’s to the day when sanity comes back to Hollywood and they can stop bickering over “perceived” losses in revenue.
I for one don’t care how long it takes for a movie to get too Redbox, the movie is new to me when it hits my Redbox.
And Hollywood wonders why they ‘lose’ revenue to overseas torrent sites. I live in an area that the nearest video store is 1.5 hours away. Sure we have about 8 redboxes in the area but with the delay from all these studios people in my area have 4 choices, download the movie illegally, drive 1.5 hours for a 3.00 rental, buy a potentially bad movie wasting money, or wait the delay out to see the movie. The waits are ridiculous in my opinion, its just Hollywood bullying the consumer into doing what they want. From what i can recall from the last time i looked at my Netflix lists i can’t recall off the top of my head any WB titles i could stream. All of them were DVD only. And people wonder why Netflix raised prices, because Hollywood is charging these companies huge fees to use the movies. Once someone grows a brain in Hollywood and realizes the sooner they get a disk out there the more people are going to rent it which means more profit % back to the studio the better for all of us.