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Students say digital rentals can be good and bad.
Under the five-year accord announced Monday, Fox will receive an 8 percent fee for handling theatrical, DVD and international television distribution; Fox will receive a 6 percent fee for executing digital rentals.
Spending on digital purchases of movies and TV shows (as opposed to digital rentals) surged 47 percent last year, to $1.19 billion, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, an industry consortium.
But digital rentals – the cheap, muddy middle ground between "There is no way in hell I'd ever watch this at the cinema" and "I don't want to wait three years until this turns up on Netflix for free" – is where The Accountant can finally shine.
But yet, DVDs and Blu-ray is still around and currently coexisting with digital rentals.
Exact figures on how much money e-tailers have been making since launching digital rentals five years ago aren't available, though it's believed to be in the low six figures per month.
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Barnes & Noble's Nook enters a crowded market of digital rental services that let viewers download movies and television shows to mobile devices.
Understandably, the box is tied in to Amazon's Prime Video streaming service, and its own digital rental and purchasing options – meaning that when I tried to search "Battlestar Galactica Netflix" (which, to its credit, wasn't interpreted as a cry for help), it got confused.
Hints that Apple would reverse itself and pursue a digital rental strategy emerged last month when a Carnegie Mellon undergraduate found a series of text phrases in the company's iTunes software suggesting that components of a video-on-demand rental service were already embedded.
Three were available for digital rental, and five were available for digital sale.
Movies will only be available for digital rental, not permanent downloads, based on company's observations of demand at other websites based on the DVD-equivalent prices studios offer.
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