Warner Bros plans early DVDs in Korea
This sounds like a pretty good news, potentially a new source of early DVD releases similar to Russian R5 rips. In an effort to head off pirates in South Korea, Warner Bros. will start releasing movies online there before they are even available on DVD. The move is an attempt to monetize a market known for the wide availability of illegally copied DVDs by taking advantage of its high broadband penetration. If the experiment proves successful, the studio and others like it may expand its pre-DVD-release online distribution to other countries. Warner Bros. hopes that, by offering movies online before their release on DVD, South Korean customers won’t be tempted to buy the movies for next-to-nothing on the street or hunt them down online.
And, of course, profit margins are higher on online downloads than discs, allowing Warner Bros. to make more from the downloads than they would by selling DVDs. “The beauty is that the consumer does not have to spend any more money on the product,” Tsujihara said. The company is apparently considering a similar move in China, where movie piracy is even more rampant than South Korea. Tsujihara acknowledged that China is very similar to South Korea when it comes to moving physical products (that is, not very good), but China could be ripe for online distribution as more of the country gets access to broadband. Warner Bros. has already changed its distribution strategy in China by offering legit DVDs at prices comparable to what pirates charge for illicit discs. In fact, this is a tactic that Warner China (a joint venture between Warner Bros., China Film Group, and Hengdian Group), Paramount and Fox are trying as well.
Source: Ars Technica
Comments(32)
Hopefully the movies won’t all have hard coded Korean subs!
Hopefully your momma’ won’t cry when I Stick Her; Fu**in’ Cun.t!
3 movies for a tenner yeeehaaa its bout time lets just hope warners piracy dept. can output good quality coz the chinks down my way sell good stuff.
^i lol’d
So more screeners and rips from Korea then?
Everyone in Korea are ugly.
I h8 asians!
asians are great.
Koreans are Ugly as Fu**. I don’t even know if I’d touch a Korean female
you are right mate, koreans are the ugliest people of this earth.
and how does this stop piracy? you can still get them on the street for cheaper and just as good quality.
sweet
if shes got 3 holes then drink up son
Your mama’s so annoying even asians cant stand her.
[MEET THE F@CKERS] WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH Y’ALL RACIST MO-FO’S. DAMN PEOPLE. WILL YOU EVER WAKE UP?
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Shut The Fu** Up BenD! Su** on my Di** Bi7ch!
admin please start taking responsibility for banning racists. I think it is will hurt your traffic when people get offended and never come back how many asians do you think come here. a lot.
no one can Su** on your Di**, cuz you have a very little peepee
” Racist” has a little peepee, rofl, you have a baby Peepee!!!!
No, this isn’t “a pretty good news”, rather the introduction of more subpar junk in the scene release stream if groups decide to pick those up. It’s bad enough that R5s occasionally have their own issues and non-final-DVD cuts (not to mention 25fps), imagine how useful hardcoded mandarin subs will be on those Korean/Chinese preDVDs.
[Racist October 8th, 2008 | 01:53]
Man you f@cked with a wrong dude…
C’Ya
http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/photos/image_full/3193/
you wouldn’t hit that?
This is a long shot
Koreans can download any English dvd for 20 cents on some pirate sites, and the speeds are ridiculous
@2 Don’t worry ’bout a thing. More handheld games are coming to Rlslog.net. Yes, you’re ip ain’t a secret
with the global market slowdown we’ll be the third world country soon.
please guys don’t be like that saying that Koreans are ugly it’s like saying all USA people are fat ….
so for sure not all people in Korea is that ugly and not all USA people are fat so get over it closed minded people
OK I think they should do this in the USA and UK tiny prices for DVDs sounds good cutting down the price of DVDs is probably why we do not buy them at the extortionate rate they want for them.
Why not just sell them at the cheap price to everyone and stop the reason for piracy because this is the only way to combat it.
They think selling at high price to the ones that can afford it and then slowly lowering the price till people can afford them is the way to go.
But by the time they have been reduced the price the people that could not or will not pay the higher price have already downloaded and do not want to buy.
“The beauty is that the consumer does not have to spend any more money on the product,”
wrong wrong wrong
same price and no disc no cover no booklet no nothing.
We need to increase and support the piracy in US and Europe so that we also get early DVDs like South Korea.
but americans are all fat arent they? and stupid?
Yes hopefully not hard subbed.
Would be even easier & quicker to get hands on these than r5, simple proxy, dont even need to know someone there.
All americans are fat… and ugly… and religious.
Another comments turns into a war of words who can be the most racist. It’s pathetic. People saying things about other people because where they were born/who they were born from. Its not exactly their fault is it? Also what if YOU were born in Korea you would look be and act like a Korean and would they be racist towards Koreans then… highly unlikely. Grow up and get a grip – so much backwards thinking these days- to hate on someone from being born in a different place or being a different colour absolutely ridiculous and just shows how dumb people are that do it.
other than laughing about the racist comments on how ugly koreans are (which i don’t agree with but i think its funny on how a piracy subject turns into what koreans look like.) how exactly does this stop pirating as i would think releasing it earlier on the web would only make it happen more frequent and faster then ever??
Nuke Korea’s girlfriend left him for a Korean guy so don’t worry that he’s bitter.
everyone should shut up and talk about real things. so in this case these korean screeners or w/e would be called K3 or K5 ’s. the biggest decision is to wether to call them K3’s or K5’s cause if their from South K then its 3 if from North K then it would be K5.. so thats the big question we should be asking. i can see it allready..
Spiderman.4.K3.Line.Xvid-PUKKA.avi
yeah great.really interesting stuff.but whats with all the insults.people are people like you and me.pow.