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In an effort to promote the culture of movie going, the media industry of Mumbai has decided to not release DVDs in India till about 5 weeks after the movie has been released. The industry director argues that this would force those individuals who are financially well off and wait eagerly for the movie to be released but are too lazy to go to a cinema hall to visit the cinema halls more often.
Which of the following if true indicates that the plan to hold off the release of DVD's of a movie is ill designed to have the desired effect?
A. Since the cost of watching movies in a movie theater is much higher than that of watching it on the DVD, only a few people who prefer to watch the movie on DVD would go to the movie theater.
B. If released 5 weeks late, the movie industry may have to reduce the price of the DVD to make it attractive for people to purchase the same.
C. A recent survey has indicated that 15% of the people may forgo watching a movie if the movie is not immediately released on the DVD.
D. Even if the DVDs are not released in India, there is a high probability that DVDs from neighboring countries will make their way to the country
E. Movie theaters in a number of metropolitan cities are running at 70% capacity and may have to increase their capacity to accommodate the surge in demand.
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In an effort to promote the culture of movie going, the media industry of Mumbai has decided to not release DVDs in India till about 5 weeks after the movie has been released. The industry director argues that this would force those individuals who are financially well off and wait eagerly for the movie to be released but are too lazy to go to a cinema hall to visit the cinema halls more often.
Which of the following if true indicates that the plan to hold off the release of DVD's of a movie is ill designed to have the desired effect?
A. Since the cost of watching movies in a movie theater is much higher than that of watching it on the DVD, only a few people who prefer to watch the movie on DVD would go to the movie theater.
B. If released 5 weeks late, the movie industry may have to reduce the price of the DVD to make it attractive for people to purchase the same.
C. A recent survey has indicated that 15% of the people may forgo watching a movie if the movie is not immediately released on the DVD.
D. Even if the DVDs are not released in India, there is a high probability that DVDs from neighboring countries will make their way to the country
E. Movie theaters in a number of metropolitan cities are running at 70% capacity and may have to increase their capacity to accommodate the surge in demand.
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IMO D

A) Since the individuals are well off, the extra cost shouldn't prevent them from going to the cinema.
B) Aim of the media industry is to increase the culture of cinema going rather than to focus on money, seems OOS.
C) At least 85% will still go the movies even if 15% do not do so. So plan will succeed to some extent.
D) if this is true then the plan will not succeed at all as DVD's from different countries will enter the market and people would not go to the movies.
E)Still will not prevent people from going to the cinemas as cinemas can still accommodate 30% per show and may even increase capacity if required.

If option D is true then indeed this option can fully prevent people from going to the cinemas. A DVD watcher has no preference for Indian DVD's compared to non Indian DVD's.
At least anything of that sort is not mentioned in the passage.
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Can someone post the correct answer for this question?

I confused between A & D
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hello, I cannot locate the exact source of this question. The source does not appear in the search result of google.
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In this questin just think what will prevent the people from going to movie.

It will be either piracy will happen at a huge rate or movie will be avalible from some other country .

Or more people will boycott going to movie to show that we want to watch the movie on DVD .

Etc etc

Only option D do such thing.pople will bring movie from some other country

If stuck with B -dvd price will reduced.there is nothing written will people will go for the movie or not

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In an effort to promote the culture of movie going, the media industry of Mumbai has decided to not release DVDs in India till about 5 weeks after the movie has been released. The industry director argues that this would force those individuals who are financially well off and wait eagerly for the movie to be released but are too lazy to go to a cinema hall to visit the cinema halls more often.

Which of the following if true indicates that the plan to hold off the release of DVD's of a movie is ill designed to have the desired effect?
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A. Since the cost of watching movies in a movie theater is much higher than that of watching it on the DVD, only a few people who prefer to watch the movie on DVD would go to the movie theater.
Since the passage address about well off financially the cost is not of substanstiable importance and doesn't impact the passage
B. If released 5 weeks late, the movie industry may have to reduce the price of the DVD to make it attractive for people to purchase the same.
This definitely weakens but however we still don't whether the theatre will recieve it's requisite movie goers or whether the population will buy the DVD we are not in a position to conclusively decide

C. A recent survey has indicated that 15% of the people may forgo watching a movie if the movie is not immediately released on the DVD.
This is determental to both the theatre industry and DVD sales , however since the population range is pretty small we can safely avoide them

D. Even if the DVDs are not released in India, there is a high probability that DVDs from neighboring countries will make their way to the country
The option simply jumps at you tells to chose since tha main idea is to deter the audience from getting the DVDs and if it
s easily available then there is nothing that can stop them from getting the DVD and not going to the theatre and watching

E. Movie theaters in a number of metropolitan cities are running at 70% capacity and may have to increase their capacity to accommodate the surge in demand
This strengthens the argument since it states that the movie goers are racking up the capacity of the theaters

Therefore IMO D
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