Paramount flicks to see Blu-ray purchase, DVD rental availability ahead of DVD sale date
by Richard Lawler 
posted Jul 31st 2009 at 4:27AM
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Watch Bubble in the theater, on DVD and on cable, but not if you live in New Jersey
by Richard Lawler posted Jan 19th 2006 at 2:45PM
Or any of the other dozen states where movie theaters have
refused to show the movie, fighting like the Luddites they
are to protect their antiquated way of doing business. Director Steven Soderbergh, in partnership with our friend
Mark Cuban and others is releasing his new movie
"Bubble" ("the
weirdest goddamn movie ever released by a major American filmmaker.") in theater, on cable and on DVD on the same
day, giving viewers the choice of how they want to experience it from the beginning, instead of artificial time
delays between each step.Immediate (or close to it) digital distribution is the future, and these theaters are silly to fight it. If they had any sense, they'd sell copies o the DVD on the way out. if they had offered me a copy of The Island as I exited the theater, I would have gladly dropped $20 more on top of what I had just spent on a ticket and popcorn.
Any HDBeat readers live in states that won't be getting a choice of how they want to see their movies?
