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Old 04-10-18, 03:37 PM  
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Alice Bracegirdle will no longer produce DVDs and her reasons are the same.
I'm fine with no more DVDs, and I'm OK with streaming too, but I prefer the option of buying downloads. Alice Bracegirdle sells downloads, but I don't think Ellen does. Why not? This is a rhetorical question because I can guess the answer.
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Old 04-10-18, 03:57 PM  
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I prefer dvds, but I'm sort of okay with downloads. At least you can keep what you have paid for. I worry with streaming if a service gets shut down and you've paid in advance that you would not get your money back.
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Old 04-10-18, 04:35 PM  
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There is also no (legal) secondary market for downloads so it is easy to understand why people might hesitate to spend the money on something with no resale value.
I agree, no secondary market for downloads, but not much of one for DVDs any more either with the advent of streaming & downloading and high shipping costs.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:18 PM  
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IMHO these fitness marketers are just "virtue signaling" to make an acceptable excuse for their greed. Streaming is less work, more money for them, and the consumer gets cheated and left in the dust. I will buy "some" downloads, but never streaming, I see thru that game and refuse to play. Glad I kept my dvds.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:26 PM  
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Streaming is less work, more money for them, and the consumer gets cheated and left in the dust. I will buy "some" downloads, but never streaming, I see thru that game and refuse to play. Glad I kept my dvds.
I agree! More money for the instructors!

When is the last time Leslie Sansone made a DVD? She jumped on the streaming bandwagon also.

Thankfully I have a huge collection of DVDs.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:34 PM  
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IMHO these fitness marketers are just "virtue signaling" to make an acceptable excuse for their greed. Streaming is less work, more money for them, and the consumer gets cheated and left in the dust. I will buy "some" downloads, but never streaming, I see thru that game and refuse to play. Glad I kept my dvds.
I also agree.

As far as plastic....I'm more concerned with plastic bags and packaging. Egad I just opened a package from Amazon and can't believe the amount of packaging.

Oh I said "egad". That makes me feel old.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:37 PM  
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I wouldn’t mind buying downloads. They should be easy enough to burn to DVD and then have both formats.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:38 PM  
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Everyone should start flooding them with e-mails, on their social media etc how you will NOT sign in for streaming and would only get dvds.

If they think that they would lose money, they may reconsider.
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Old 04-10-18, 05:40 PM  
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Joni, I'd consider downloads as well. Since making a copy would be doable, but all I seem to see is streaming by most instructors.

Oh well, I have what I want for now, so it's all good to me.
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Old 04-10-18, 09:00 PM  
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IMHO these fitness marketers are just "virtue signaling" to make an acceptable excuse for their greed.
I knew there had to be a term for it Really, just be honest and say that DVDs aren't selling like they used to.
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