[mythtv-users] aereo

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Ah, it seems that the extra charge ($70-$130) was the way it used to work in
> VHS days, but the practice didn't survive into DVD days, and it wasn't so
> much a special-rental-licensed version as an earlier-availability version.

It has survived, but to a much lesser degree.  The bin of $9.99/$4.99
DVD's in front of a supermarket checkout line rarely has new releases.

> Mike (who's showing his age by remembering the $80 VHS rental copies)

I remember that as well.  (Are you calling me old?)  And $80 in 1980 =
$230 in 2014.

It seems insane now, but it was a product of the times.

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the
American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Jack Valenti, MPAA President, 1982

Somehow they seem to have survived.

Eric