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Re: Price of Fun -- an interesting point of view
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 11:48:51 -0400
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 09:27:40 -0400 (EDT) From: deyoung () ARPA MIL David, Here is an interesting sidebar about the price of fun. Many pundits say that the driving force behind the new NII will be video on demand? Do the math yourself, how many movies does a person have to watch/week to justify the cable (and other companies) expense of ~$1,000/household to hook them up (assume $5.00/movie). Let's also assume the enormous cost of the delivery mechanism is included in that figure, too (bad assumption). Yup, you got it, ~4/week. Any questions about why video on demand won't hack it? By the way, this also excludes the fact that people like to wander around the video store, browsing. One other thing to ponder, the percentage of their income that folks spend on entertainment hasn't changed since around the turn of the century (the last one). Where are all these new dollars coming from that are being bandied about? Now, how many still think video on demand will drive the NII? Tice To continue on the original subject, 4 videos is about 8 hours, divided into $20 gives about $2.5/hour of video entertainment, but normally at least two are watching, so this comes out right in the range estimated, $1.25/hour.
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