Re: Macrovision Shares Fall on RipGuard Review

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

The studios _know_ that the cost will be passed along to
the consumer.

- ferg

-- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu writes:

Actually, they usually can't lower the price of the ticket all that much, as
most theaters are barely breaking even on the ticket sales.  They *rent* the
prints from the studio, often at rates of $20,000 or higher *per week*. Yes, 
this
means they need to sell 3,000 tickets at $7 a pop before they can even *think*
of making money.  Remember they probably have either rent or mortgage costs for
the theater and so on too...

In fact, that's why the concession prices are so high - the vast majority of
theaters only stay afloat from profits from the concessions.....


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/



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