{"id":9751,"date":"2005-12-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/11\/all-good-things-come-to-an-end\/"},"modified":"2005-12-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T12:00:00","slug":"all-good-things-come-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/11\/all-good-things-come-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"All good things come to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Martin has closed doors of his DVD club.  It wasn&#8217;t a surprise as things were slowing down a lot lately.<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s perspective on movies has changed a lot.  With all the piracy going on, people want to rent DVDs at the same time as movies are in the cinema.  This alone pretty much means that you can&#8217;t be legid.  You either have to cheat.  Or break the though.  Or both.  Or you have to work really really hard (like finding new angles on the whole entertainment thing), which arent&#8217; worth it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>DVD prices are outragous.  Check Amazon, for example.  The DVDs are $15 USD on average.  That&#8217;s about 6 CYP.  With regular DVD rental prices at 1 CYP, it meas that each DVD has to be rented at least to 6 people to cover its own cost.  Then some more to pay the office bills and then some to earn something for the owner.<\/p>\n<p>But DVDs are also an extremely fragile media.  After 6 people have watched the disk, it is all scratched and bent, so it needs to be replaced.  Which is how much?  Oh, yeah, right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As much as I am saddenned by the news, I do understand the reasons behind the decision. <\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Martin has closed doors of his DVD club. It wasn&#8217;t a surprise as things were slowing down a lot lately. People&#8217;s perspective on movies has changed a lot. With all the piracy going on, people want to rent DVDs at the same time as movies are in the cinema. This alone pretty much means that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/11\/all-good-things-come-to-an-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All good things come to an end<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,24,2],"tags":[186],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-movies","category-personal","tag-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9358,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/20\/dvd-collection-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":9751,"position":0},"title":"DVD collection update","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a few more DVDs using Martin's special offer (1 DVD for 7 CYP, 5 DVDs for 30 CYP, 10 DVDs for 50 CYP). 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