On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:27:05 +0000
Ronnie McKinley wrote:

Oh you buy popcorn now? - that'll push your 3 quid night out up a bit
over the budget. eh?

haha.

Our local Warner Village multiplex

Ah yes. used to live near one of them. Cost nearly three times what I pay in my local cinema.

The screen was no bigger. The seats wernt more comfy. The sound system was (like most cinemas) crap.

The restaurants around it were about 1.5-2x the going rate of all the others in the same type in town, too (it was slightly out of town so I guess they figured they had a captive market.

Except for one, that is - the italian - which served better food than the rest anyway, and cost less. You can guess which one got our business.

Didnt I say that? oh yes, right...

I make that about 12ukp.

...there.

You started of by saying one could go to the flicks 10 times for the
price of a DVD. Which we now see is NOT always the case.

not always, but then, UI didnt say *always* did I ?

In the case of
a NORMAL family of 5 (or even 3) that is clearly nonsense.

I'd have thought I made it clear in my original post I was talking about one person.

*arguably* the benefits of the DVD *approach* the cinema trip once you add more people, but then the kids are usually quieter at the flicks than at home, and they dont keep running in and out of the room either.

In the case
of most families buying a DVD represents good value for money.

I dont think my copy of Dragonheart was better value because I have a family - its mine and no-one else wants to watch it anyhow. (it was good value though, as it only cost 6.99)

in
many cases, the DVD purchase would be cheaper. That is my point.

Make that in *some* cases (without implying more in the way many does) and fine, sure, whatever.

That doesnt mean the 30ukp releases arent extremely bad value for money.

Which was the RRP and list price in tescos.


Which you conveniently picked to serve your own prejudice.

And Kurt didnt pick a *free* DVD to serve his argument ?

It can be
clearly demonstrated that most DVDs cost nowhere near 29.99.

What region ?

As it can
be clearly demonstrated (as above) that DVDs offer reasonable value for
the "normal" asking prices for the normal family.

If you consider 12UKP a 'normal' asking price, yeah ok, perhaps. On the high side IMO but not too bad.

We are not all sad *******s like yourself.

Enough of that please.

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