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Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart
Currently the studios are making 40% more profit from an EST sale then they do from a disc sale. EST is outselling Physical Media.
Does anyone really believe the studios will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?
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I am still trying to catch up on three pages of posts today, but do you actually have a source that proves that the studios make 40% more in profit on an EST sale vs. a disc sale? I have not seen anything that substantiates that claim as of yet.
Further, maintaining and operating all of those server farms to allow access to EST content constitute an ongoing cost that is often overlooked. Unlike a disc sale, an EST sale requires continual and costly support in the form of bandwidth costs and server farm costs and these are quite large.