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Post by jasonward on Jul 7, 2016 20:52:00 GMT
I can't see this hurting sales at all. Big Finish has a very small, loyal customer base and I can't see anyone refusing to buy a title because it can be streamed. If you look at video examples, I've got Amazon Prime and can stream lots of modern Doctor Who for free as part of that. It doesn't stop me buying the titles though. Big Finish will have tracked the impact of previous ventures into streaming and wouldn't do it if it wasn't income positive. I think you are perhaps mistaking us here for the wider BF audience. But look at my own behaviour, once I started to use Napster I stopped buying music, haven't bought any in years, and the same goes for video, I have access to Sky Go, Amazon Prime and Netflix and haven't purchased a single DVD in several years. I just can't see the point. If/when BF's full catalouge, or at least all the new stuff I haven't already purchased comes available on streaming services I will without doubt stop purchasing.
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Post by bob790 on Jul 7, 2016 22:38:22 GMT
I can't see this hurting sales at all. Big Finish has a very small, loyal customer base and I can't see anyone refusing to buy a title because it can be streamed. If you look at video examples, I've got Amazon Prime and can stream lots of modern Doctor Who for free as part of that. It doesn't stop me buying the titles though. Big Finish will have tracked the impact of previous ventures into streaming and wouldn't do it if it wasn't income positive. I think you are perhaps mistaking us here for the wider BF audience. But look at my own behaviour, once I started to use Napster I stopped buying music, haven't bought any in years, and the same goes for video, I have access to Sky Go, Amazon Prime and Netflix and haven't purchased a single DVD in several years. I just can't see the point. If/when BF's full catalouge, or at least all the new stuff I haven't already purchased comes available on streaming services I will without doubt stop purchasing. I think perhaps you are mistaking your own behaviour for a general rule. Clearly if everyone who signed up to a streaming service behaved this way, no one would make any money and the service would die through lack of content.
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Post by jasonward on Jul 7, 2016 22:47:10 GMT
I think you are perhaps mistaking us here for the wider BF audience. But look at my own behaviour, once I started to use Napster I stopped buying music, haven't bought any in years, and the same goes for video, I have access to Sky Go, Amazon Prime and Netflix and haven't purchased a single DVD in several years. I just can't see the point. If/when BF's full catalouge, or at least all the new stuff I haven't already purchased comes available on streaming services I will without doubt stop purchasing. I think perhaps you are mistaking your own behaviour for a general rule. Clearly if everyone who signed up to a streaming service behaved this way, no one would make any money and the service would die through lack of content. Pretty certain that sales of music have declined as streaming has increased. If they haven't then streaming represents entirely new income, and artists would not be getting upset and claiming streaming services are killing the music industry, my behaviour seems the norm from what I can tell.
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Post by tordred on Jul 7, 2016 22:57:06 GMT
They are definitely not moving to giving streaming services full access (at least for Doctor Who). It's very much all stuff to get you interested.
All DW related releases I could find: MR 1-6 Blood of the Daleks Pt 1 Destination Nerva Dalek Empire 1.1 Missing Persons, New Frontiers, Legion (Benny) All of Iris series 2, 3, and 4 Graceless series 1, 2, and 3 The Memory Box and Vienna Series 1
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Post by jasonward on Jul 8, 2016 17:10:05 GMT
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