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Fox is rethinking 'premium' DVD, rental separation policies

article published on 19 April, 2009

Last month we reported that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment had announced it would be creating two classes of DVDs for now on, a "premium" version with extras and digital copies and a "rental" version which removes all extras and will be available for rental only. The first movie to be "split" was Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire which hit stores and rental outlets on March 31st. ... [ read the full article ]

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progrockt
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_ 		19. April 2009 @ 13:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
WOW! First the Time Warner Broadband cap backdown, now this! Power to the people baby!
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bomber991
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_ 		19. April 2009 @ 18:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by progrockt:
 WOW! First the Time Warner Broadband cap backdown, now this! Power to the people baby!
Yeah! Death to DRM install limits for pc games next?
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hendrix04
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_ 		20. April 2009 @ 08:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I can see a split between rental and retail. What they are trying to do is limit the quality of movie when rental stores take the movie down from rental and sell it as previously viewed... What it sounds like to me is that Fox is preventing a rental store from getting any of the retail versions. Does fox not realize that rental stores actually sell new shrink wrapped retail versions?
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