Gotchya and returned, LeN.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 8:41:46 am PST #7654 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Nov 08, 2007 8:57:43 am PST #7655 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
CBS - which has a couple of shows I watch online through streaming - doesn't seems to have commercials. Whenever I watch CSI:NY online, I see it straight through without commercials. Which seems pretty odd to me. I usually watch it first thing Thursday morning, so maybe they introduce the commercials later on?
Polter-Cow - Nov 08, 2007 8:58:28 am PST #7656 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
When it comes to those handy streaming full episodes -- you know, the ones with the IMBEDDED commercials that you can't skip? -- nothing. Nada. They're calling that "promotional."
Right, I've heard that, but the WGA video mentions an offer to give the DVD rate for Internet views. Is that different from the "promotional" bullshit? What were they actually offering to pay residuals for, then? Like Amazon Unbox and Netflix downloading?
Thanks for that other video. I didn't know there were other issues on the table, that the WGA felt...threatened.
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2007 9:01:10 am PST #7657 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Is that different from the "promotional" bullshit? What were they actually offering to pay residuals for, then? Like Amazon Unbox and Netflix downloading?
That's what I understood. That they'd get cheaptastic residuals for things like Unbox or iTunes.
Polter-Cow - Nov 08, 2007 9:08:33 am PST #7658 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which again brings me to my original question: how do DVD residuals work? If they are willing to offer the four cents for an iTunes download of an episode, that means it's a per-episode thing, right? When you buy a DVD set, four cents goes to the writer(s) (if an episode is co-written, do they split the four cents?) of each episode? That would make sense to me.
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 9:08:53 am PST #7659 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whenever I watch CSI:NY online, I see it straight through without commercials. Which seems pretty odd to me. I usually watch it first thing Thursday morning, so maybe they introduce the commercials later on?
CSI Old School does--at the beginning of each segment, so it's about 4. I used to like their interface, but it's bugging the hell out of me lately.
Kevin - Nov 08, 2007 9:09:05 am PST #7660 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Spied this on the interweb: [link]
Sophia Brooks - Nov 08, 2007 9:09:37 am PST #7661 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
PC, I don't think it is a flat 4 cents, I think it is a percentage. So, they would get the same percentage of the download as the DVD, but the cost for the download is less.
Polter-Cow - Nov 08, 2007 9:15:05 am PST #7662 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aw, I know the girl who delivered the fruit to the SPN folk!
Oh, and their Facebook group appears to answer my question: 4 cents per disc. And that gets distributed to the writers of the episodes on that disc? So, basically, a penny for each writer? HOT DAMN. And where does all the other money go? How does the writer rate compare to the actor/director/anyone else rate? I assume most of the money goes to overhead and then corporate profit.
Wolfram - Nov 08, 2007 10:22:41 am PST #7663 of 10001
Visilurking
PC, I don't think it is a flat 4 cents, I think it is a percentage. So, they would get the same percentage of the download as the DVD, but the cost for the download is less.
It's .3%. I think the 4 cents comes from the average DVD price ($20) times the .3%. (Except this equals 6 cents, so maybe I'm wrong.)