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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3889681" data-attributes="member: 2525">Uh...it changed then because the home video market changes the theatrical market.  Did you think it was just an amazing coincidence that fewer people went to the movies as video rentals increased?  Come on now, I have seen you in threads where people would rate new movies with the word "Rental" or "Cable".  You know what that means for the theatrical release!The "ancillary" markets are not always "additional" revenue, they are usually REPLACEMENT revenue.  People who would have gone to the movies to see a movie sometimes now instead wait to rent it or even buy it or see it on cable (and was also starting to grow at that time as well - remember when ON TV was the only cable station).  It sounds to me like you are living in the 1970s and have not caught up with the impact that cable and rentals and the internet have had on theatrical viewing.  It's not the same market it used to be, and studios had to adapt or die.Really, I think you are a party of one of this aspect of the issue. Pretty much everyone knows that rentals and cable and the internet all had an impact on the theatrical market, and that the markets are considered together and not separate.  And I am having trouble seeing how this part of the debate in this thread is productive - the WGA is not arguing to separate the markets again, nor are the Producers, nor are the Actors or Directors or anyone involved.  So what is the point of debating it?</blockquote>

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