This is not... (Score 1)

for the benefit of the consumer. I'm sure everyone here understands that.

Steven Soderbergh and everyone else in Hollywood are only trying to figure out ways to maximize *their own profits*, not the $$$'s in *our* wallets or our own good times.

Slate recently had an excellent piece about Iger, NATO, and "the windows" that explained why Hollywood wants to shorten the windows and why Big Theater are so apopleptic about that. Highly recommended reading.

And BTW, I suspect Soderbergh et al. will continue to release movies in the theaters at least simultaneously with the On Demand / DVD / Movielink / etc. releases in order to qualify for an Academy Award -- or at least until the Academy changes that rule.

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