The lowdown on Knock-off nigel

Ste · 12 Aug 2007 at 12:30

£6 a ticket here at cineworld. But you're a fool if you pay that. < £4 on tuesdays or orange weds are the way to go.

Student discount + orange weds = me and the gf in for £4.80

Camalot · 12 Aug 2007 at 12:32

Ste said:
£6 a ticket here at cineworld. But you're a fool if you pay that. < £4 on tuesdays or orange weds are the way to go.

Student discount + orange weds = me and the gf in for £4.80

I try and go every wednesdays as well with orange wednesdays but theres nothing left on the cinema i want to see right now. Seen die hard // transformers and simpsons at the cinema.

What is this tuesdays cheap tickets thing :eek:

V4NT0M · 12 Aug 2007 at 12:38

it has to be the crappiest anti piracy advert out there... Insinuating that people who buy pirated DVDs (why Nigel doesn't download them is beyond me) are crap lol

teaboy5 · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:01

Spuds said:
Your quite correct, an adult ticket at my work costs £5.50 (Which we get plenty of complaints about) and when you factor in the cost of running 6 projectors, paying a projectionist (not to mention as many as 6 or 7 floor staff and 2 managers when its busy) and repairing the chairs broken by muppets who continue to put their feet up on them after you've told them not to for the 3rd time we loose money on films. All our profit is made on the massively overpriced sweets and popcorn.

Where do you work?

Newry?

~>Dg<~ · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:02

well its a waste of money (advert) people wont take any notice.We are nearly at the stage where discs wont be needed so then dl will be the way to watch everything via a payment type plan program.It is true that if the robbing bstards charged a reasonable price for dvds cds then that would chop piracy in half over night. dvds shouldnt cost more than 4 quid new,cds 3 quid in my eyes also piracy does sometimes help as well as a lot of people who might see a good film will often buy it from a proper retail out let.
as for quality it just depends on where you looking you can get retail copies of brand new films before there out if u look.its just mainly the carboot specials that are normally ripped and poor cause they want quick cash.cant say there bothered to much about quality.
also what benefit does downloading say ten tracks from say itunes give you if say cost 70p each when you can just buy the album for the same price :confused:

should be at least half price of the albums price.makes it worth doing then.

Meatball · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:04

I just took that test and it came out as knock-off nigel! So since I'm a knock-off Nigel that means I:

www.knockoffornot.com said:
Knock-Off Nigel always nips to the bog when it's his round
in the pub, buys Knock-Off DVDs and steals money
from the purse of his own dear mother.

I buy all my CD's (5 chart CD's in the past 2 weeks) buy all my films on DVD and soon to be Blu-Ray!

teaboy5 · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:09

Also they need to start learning to release movies world wide on the same day.

Also a simple download service would be great, if they are worried about no one buying the DVD's then have the service so it only allows say two viewings before it deletes its self

Camalot · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:12

teaboy5 said:
Also they need to start learning to release movies world wide on the same day.

Also a simple download service would be great, if they are worried about no one buying the DVD's then have the service so it only allows say two viewings before it deletes its self

What about a similar service to sky box office?

Duke · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:14

That advert is a joke and won't do anything.

I go to the cinema every other month, to see the main blockbusters and pay £6-7 for a ticket. I don't understand why people moan about the price of food and drink there, how about you don't fill your cake hole for 90mins?

teaboy5 · 12 Aug 2007 at 13:56

Camalot said:
What about a similar service to sky box office?

Yeah even that would work, i just cant understand why they dont do this, there must be a reason behind it.

Because i think they would make a lot of money

ethan · 12 Aug 2007 at 14:13

Nexy said:
I'll happily spend money to do things I enjoy, I buy music (at the moment, I'm on Napster's rental package), I got to the cinema etc. However I get shafted for doing it. Napster's got DRM on the tracks, the cinema tickets cost £6.50 a piece. Until the expensive real stuff is as good as the free stuff, people will take the free stuff.

DVD rips are on the net for most movies when the film is still in the cinema. Why does Hollywood not do a decent downloads service and charge a few quid? If you make it quick, easy and high quality at a reasonable price, people would use it. Not everyone, most people who go to the cinema will still go to the cinema, but you'd capture a lot of the people who watch pirate movies now.

Look at iTunes as a business model only imagine if customers weren't being shafted, I think the DVD piracy business would drop greatly. My $0.02.

The whole "knock-off Nigel" thing is a waste of space. It ***** me right off that when I pay £6.50 to go to the cinema, I have to sit through an anti-piracy advert. I'M ALREADY THERE FFS, YOU'RE ALREADY SHAFTING ME, JUST GET ON WITH IT!
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Some interesting points there.

I would certainly be interested in paying a few quid for a fast and very good quality copy/ original if the movie distributors were happy to provide this way viz a viz the internet. To make the downloads cheap fast and instant as opposed to making you wait until the film reaches your country is the way to go but the huge corporations will not learn and it is their antiquated way of dealing with this that is part of the proble. You will never stop piracy so the best you could ever hope for is that it could be minimized by the way I have already mentioned..

FrostedNipple · 12 Aug 2007 at 14:24

teaboy5 said:
Yeah even that would work, i just cant understand why they dont do this, there must be a reason behind it.

Because i think they would make a lot of money

well basically, they don't want people downloading film illegally, someone has to go to the effort of getting that film onto pc format, if the company's do it for them then the spread of it will be a much quicker process!!!

RuMp3l4$k1n · 12 Aug 2007 at 15:06

vonhelmet said:
Oh, sorry, you're right. I forgot that there's an exemption from the copyright laws if you have some vague intentions of working in the industry.

No you either need to learn to read or perhaps quote within full context? once again you asked something like If they are so bad, why are you still watching them?, now regardless of where I got the film be it on TV through a download(legal or otherwise) or in my local store I gave you an answer to that, it was not justifying any illegal activity it was not even related to the use of illegal downloads! what it was justifying was why I continue to watch films despite being disillusioned with the profession.

Christ within that part I even said I am retracting my previous statement and I'm not a prolific pirate. :confused:

Since then I have gone onto discuss legal download services the speed of our internet and the price of cinemas, NOT how many films I steel a week and how fast unlike others in the thread, so what is your beef here?

As long as you continue to counter me with 1 sentence 'smart ***' comments which are inaccurate you can keep your :rolleyes:

and file it neatly along side the other cases in your moral warchest chest tyvfm. The bee in your bonnet is dead sir please find another one.

Burned_Alive · 12 Aug 2007 at 15:32

Meatball said:
I just took that test and it came out as knock-off nigel! So since I'm a knock-off Nigel that means I:

I buy all my CD's (5 chart CD's in the past 2 weeks) buy all my films on DVD and soon to be Blu-Ray!

I was a little bit disturbed by some of the comments on the site, if you took the test and said you downloaded films, it suggested you were beaten as a child..... not exactly PC!

Emlyn_Dewar · 12 Aug 2007 at 15:49

As has been said already, it really gets on my nerves when I go and buy a DVD only to have to watch the unskippable "You wouldn't steal a car..." anti-piracy "you're a big terrorist" trailer...

I'm happy to go to the cinema and pay the ticket price, I'll always bring my own food though, a year working in the screen snacks department in Cineworld has taught me wisely...
From that test it appears that I too am a knock off nigel... Damn... :rolleyes:

I just feel for anyone who's called Nigel now.

Azagoth · 12 Aug 2007 at 16:27

"Have you ever travelled on a bus without paying?" Of course I have, my Dad was a driver on P.M.T. for close to 30 years. :rolleyes:

Now, if someone could just explain how the hell that's related to buying pirated DVD's.

FeFiDoh · 12 Aug 2007 at 16:39

What cracks me up on that test is

Have you let the lift door shut on someone you knew? Of course its funny

Done a really nasty smell and blamed someone else? eeeerm its as natural as the smell in the first place :cool:

Anyway, I be the answers dont matter its the final one of "have you ever downloaded a movie?" It bases the answer on this I bet

Spuds · 12 Aug 2007 at 17:25

teaboy5 said:
Where do you work?

Newry?

Nope, Carrickfergus Omniplex

Emlyn_Dewar said:
As has been said already, it really gets on my nerves when I go and buy a DVD only to have to watch the unskippable "You wouldn't steal a car..." anti-piracy "you're a big terrorist" trailer...

Funnily enough those sections are dead easy to remove when coping a DVD meaning the only people they annoy are the people who buy legit DVD's :rolleyes:

ste_bla · 12 Aug 2007 at 17:47

nvrmind

ArmyofHarmony · 12 Aug 2007 at 19:03

Everyone keep pirating or buying at the same level we are doing right now. We're at a nice equilibrium point now.