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    News - YouTube movie rentals off to a shaky start

    Early figures suggest YouTube's movie rental business may not pose a significant threat to the likes of Netflix.
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    Shock horror! Unknown films dont do well as movie rentals, Who'd have thought?
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    Re: News - YouTube movie rentals off to a shaky start

    Maybe if it were advertised people would know about it..
    I'm on youtube everyday as well as other places on the net and I didnt know they were doing this...

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    Re: News - YouTube movie rentals off to a shaky start

    I don't get the pricing....$3.99 for an indie movie? It costs around that to rent a blockbuster movie, with a disc, box, and physical retail location overheads....

    It's just a blatent rip off. There's no way the distribution contract for films of this type require the reimbursment levels of the big studio releases, so why are they so expensive...and you can believe it'll be $1 to £1 when it gets to the UK.

    And as Trig points out, YouTube is the biggest film platform in the world, with millions of active users every day - how come this hasn't been marketed effectively?
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