Early digital releases from Fox

Fox is about to pry open the window for digital film sales. Beginning later this month with Ridley Scott’s science fiction thriller Prometheus, the studio plans to offer high-definition versions of its films for sale at lowered prices about three weeks before making the movies available on discs and through video-on-demand services.

Fox is about to pry open the window for digital film sales. Beginning later this month with Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller Prometheus, the studio plans to offer high-definition versions of its films for sale at lowered prices about three weeks before making the movies available on discs and through video-on-demand services.

The new system is giving consumers an earlier shot at films for about $15 each, down from a purchase price that is currently about $20.

That will nibble into what has been a waiting period of four months in which pictures play exclusively in theaters before their release in home entertainment formats. NYT