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[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.
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.
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.
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.
Spied this on the interweb: [link]
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.
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.
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.)
I think the 4 cents comes from the average DVD price ($20)
That's the average movie DVD price. But TV-on-DVD usually sells for three times that, MSRP.
Maybe the price is based on what the stores/distributors pay wholesale rather than the retail price?