Reply #15: Video games, Netflix and pay-on-demand

[jumptheshadow]

I suspect they're cutting into the time and dollar budgets of many American entertainment consumers. I pay $15 a month per account for the game I play. Compare that to the cost of one movie ticket, gas to get to the theater and a trip to the concession stand. I used to go to movies two or three times a week. Now it's once every two or three months. I know that the same films I shell out big bucks for will be available in six months on my local cable station for free and viewable on a nice home entertainment system.

It helps, too, that with cable or DVD rental you can cut out those increasingly ubiquitous, horribly annoying loops of commercials in the theaters.