AaronMK
Supporting Actor
I did not see the benefits of OAR until soon before buying a DVD player. Now that I have seen the benefits of OAR, there is no going back. Now my freinds and family have also seen the benefits. Many of them will only watch movies in their OAR.
What I fail to understand is how you can distinct "family buying consumers". Do you think that the person who cares about OAR when buying non-family films will change that preference when buying a family film? It is like assumming that people who prefer OAR do not have families.
The people who buy the most DVDs prefer and demand OAR. Making a realistic conservative estimate, I would say that they buy ten to twenty times as many movies as the average consumer, with or without a DVD player. Many of them are also parents. If they will not buy or rent DVDs that do not have the option to watch the movie in its original aspect ratio for themselves, what makes you think they will buy or rent them for their kids or for the entire family?
OAR must be an option for me to even consider buying or renting any movie. Although I am limited in my puchases by a college student budget, I still buy many times more movies than the average consumer. Many of these purchases would also fall into the "family" catagory.
I have been looking foward to seeing The Neverending Story on DVD for a while now. Hopefully my wait will be able to end with this release.
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My DVD's
If a movie is not available in OAR, than it might as well not be available at all.
What I fail to understand is how you can distinct "family buying consumers". Do you think that the person who cares about OAR when buying non-family films will change that preference when buying a family film? It is like assumming that people who prefer OAR do not have families.
The people who buy the most DVDs prefer and demand OAR. Making a realistic conservative estimate, I would say that they buy ten to twenty times as many movies as the average consumer, with or without a DVD player. Many of them are also parents. If they will not buy or rent DVDs that do not have the option to watch the movie in its original aspect ratio for themselves, what makes you think they will buy or rent them for their kids or for the entire family?
OAR must be an option for me to even consider buying or renting any movie. Although I am limited in my puchases by a college student budget, I still buy many times more movies than the average consumer. Many of these purchases would also fall into the "family" catagory.
I have been looking foward to seeing The Neverending Story on DVD for a while now. Hopefully my wait will be able to end with this release.
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My DVD's
If a movie is not available in OAR, than it might as well not be available at all.