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The number of preview DVDs being sent out is also slowly decreasing overall, as studios have finally realised where all those pre-theatrical-release DVD rips of blockbusters floating around the internet actually come from. However, this doesn't mean previews stop being sent altogether, just that fewer reviewers are trusted with copies. TV networks also screen their programs over the internet on password-protected sites for critics, although this can also be discouraging (any television critic can tell you that they'd rather do anything else than watch a program on the infamously glitchy ABC Media Net site).

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]]'s spoofs ''Date Movie'', ''Epic Movie'', ''Meet the Spartans'' and ''Disaster Movie'' all fit this trope.

* ''[[The Avengers 1998 (Film)|The Avengers 1998]]''. The studio even said it was putting the film out without previews not because it was awful, but because the studio wanted the public and press to "discover the film together". Obviously, no one believed this for a moment; both public and press quickly discovered the movie sucked hard.

** A possible case of [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]. Some critics actually embraced the film, but since they could not spread the word-of-mouth to the uninitiated because of the lack of pre-screening, people on the fence stayed hesitant and ''Snakes'' wound up scoring way less at the box office than what the viral buzz indicated.

* Many [[Gorn]] genre flicks fall into this, including the ''[[Saw]]'' franchise, which notably stayed off Richard Roeper's "Worst Movies of 2007" list specifically because of this and the fact that he didn't want to watch them in his free time.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIV]]'' did send out copies to critics, but also asked them not to give out reviews until they'd fixed some of the issues they hadn't fixed before releasing it. Naturally, since the game was already on store shelves, most didn't feel like playing along and gave decidedly negative reviews.

* According to Metro's gaming supplement, Gamecentral, review copies of games often get "lost in the post." They become more wary of a game when this happens, since they are known as being among the more strict game reviewers.

 

== Other ==