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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2073382" data-attributes="member: 177">Fine.&nbsp; It is well known that not all promotion schemes work for all people.&nbsp; Some folks like to think of a thing as charity, helping out their fellow fans.&nbsp; Others like to think in terms of purchasing a product.&nbsp; Please pardon them if they didn't hire a Madison Avenue Advertiser to design their promotions.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not gonna happen for $12 per season.&nbsp; One generally pays anywhere from $30 to $100 per season of a show now, after the advertising revenue has taken care of the production costs.&nbsp; If you want commercial-free DVDs up front, you'd better expect to pay a lot more, just like when you buy the DVDs now.That being said, direct-subscription DVD sale might become a viable alternative for genre programming.&nbsp; But don't expect folks to leap all the way to that at once.&nbsp; This might be a first step in that direction, though.&nbsp; If it can be shown that fans are willig to cough up money before seeing the show, someone might give it a whirl.Are there really people that cynical out there?&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; That cynical?Your userid styles you as a master of the mind.&nbsp; So opening your mind to new possibilities should be easy for you.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 2073382, member: 177"] Fine. It is well known that not all promotion schemes work for all people. Some folks like to think of a thing as charity, helping out their fellow fans. Others like to think in terms of purchasing a product. Please pardon them if they didn't hire a Madison Avenue Advertiser to design their promotions. :) Not gonna happen for $12 per season. One generally pays anywhere from $30 to $100 per season of a show now, [i]after[/i] the advertising revenue has taken care of the production costs. If you want commercial-free DVDs up front, you'd better expect to pay a lot more, just like when you buy the DVDs now. That being said, direct-subscription DVD sale might become a viable alternative for genre programming. But don't expect folks to leap all the way to that at once. This might be a first step in that direction, though. If it can be shown that fans are willig to cough up money before seeing the show, someone might give it a whirl. Are there really people that cynical out there? Really? That cynical? Your userid styles you as a master of the mind. So opening your mind to new possibilities should be easy for you. :) [/QUOTE]

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