Stream Movies on Your TV Same Day They’re in Theaters, If You Can Afford It

If the idea of turning your home theater into the real deal – with movies available for streaming on the same day as their theatrical release – sounds like a dream to you, then I have some good news: A new start-up called Prima Cinema wants to make your dream come true… as long as you can afford the $20,000 delivery system and $500 for each movie.

Prima founder and CEO Jason Pang told the Wall Street Journal that he sees Prima’s goal as offering more choice to consumers:

We’re not here to replace anything. We are trying to create new revenue streams for studios and new viewing opportunities for moviegoers.

The company, which has financial backing from both Best Buy and Universal Pictures, aims to install their system in 250,000 homes over the next five years and claims that it will have licensing arrangement with multiple large studios by the time it officially launches next year. Start saving now, movie fans.

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$20,000 delvery system and $500 a movie? And they think they can put this in 250,000 homes…LOL!! We have dvd, streaming internet feeds so who in thier right mind would pay $20,000 to be able to watch movies at $500 bucks a pop? This almost is like that DVD system and special player years back where the rental DVD could be played once thus eliminating returing the disc. The idea didn’t last long because of the price of the DVD player and people figured driving to return the discs was cheaper. Plus if you didn’t watch the DVD all the way through, you couldn’t watch it anymore. Needless to say, that format no longer exisits.