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Even today you can buy DVDs of movies that cost millions to make for less than the price of a CD (because the industry still wants to expand the notion of building a home library of video). The works paid for their production costs long ago.

The big reason for that is that the CD is generally the only revenue stream from the production and advertising for that piece of music. For a DVD, you have either theater receipts (for movies) or advertising (for television) as the primary revenue to pay for production of the movie/show. DVD sales are just gravy on top of that.

6 posted on 06/04/2009 12:23:36 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)

7 posted on 06/04/2009 12:52:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (June 4, 2009 - the day Barack Obama threw all of America under the bus.)