Subject: Re: TP - Visualize Tibet - Visualize New Episodes of TP
From: ez005820@pollux
Date: 1991-05-28, 12:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: ez005820@pollux.ucdavis.edu ()

duane@thismoment.EBay.Sun.COM (Duane Day) writes:
> >
> >Visualize Tibet...returned to the control of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans!  
> >
So visualized...

> >Subscription video television.  The problem with Twin Peaks on network
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> >There probably aren't going to be 20 or 30 million people ready to get
> >involved with Peaks.  But there might well be 100,000 or so people who
> >enjoy and admire the show enough that they'd pay, say, $10 or $12
> >apiece, via subscription, for high-quality video cassettes, each 
> >containing a new Twin Peaks episode, sent to their home 15 to 20 times a 
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> >
> >Thoughts?

Two thoughts come to mind.  I've heard that Twin Peak's ratings were skewed
the same way that sporting event ratings are skewed.  People watch it in
groups and apparently (although I find this a bit hard to believe) Nielson
does not do a good job taking this into account.  The logical application
of this to duane's idea is that not everyone would by the tape.  Piracy is, 
of course, always going to be at least a mild problem, but even if the intent
were not to pirate, it still seems like people would watch it in groups and 
then not have to pay.  They couldn't legally own a copy of the episode, but
it would be perfectly legal to watch it.  So 10 people get together and each
buy the episode and watch it together AS SOON as it arrives?

So I think piracy and group watching present real problems to this idea.

Michael