Feeling put out by the overwhelming bother of actually navigating from home to the movie theater to see a new flick? Relax, a new on-demand service for those who want their new movies now and without the hassle of leaving home to get them is at hand.

Reported to be called  “Home Premiere,” the service will arrive first on DirecTV.  After that, the other cable TV providers, including Comcast, are expected to pick it up for their subscribers.

The deal: For $30, viewers get access to each title for two or three days.

Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox appear to be on board, much to the chagrin of theater owners, who are already struggling to get folks away from their TV sets, computers, tablets and even smartphones for movie viewing.

According to Variety, among the first films to be made available will be the latest Liam Neeson flick, Unknown, and the Adam Sandler/Jen Aniston vehicle, Just Go With It. Both films hit theaters in February.

“These plans fundamentally alter the economic relationship between exhibitors, filmmakers and producers, and the studios taking part in this misguided venture,” reads a statement released by the National Assn. of Theater Owners.

Word is that the studios won’t release a film to this new version of On Demand viewing until it’s proven to be something of a dud in theaters. In other words, its appearance on the new service will be something of a warning: Watch this if you’ve got nothing better to do and are really too lazy, unkempt or just plain unable to get to a theater to see something that’s halfway decent.

Do the theater owners really have much to fear? If you consider that they’re really making their money off $10 buckets of greasy popcorn and giant boxes of Raisinets, they may take a big hit to the bottom line.

Anything that keeps folks out of the theater also keeps them from queuing up for overpriced snacks as well. And while the flicks that are moving to TV likely wouldn’t attract all that many viewers, if you add up the typical movie-outing expenditure, struggling theaters are likely to lose even more revenue.

Not a happy prospect.

Some experts are predicting that VOD (video on demand) will not only kill movie viewing in theaters, it will also wipe out DVD sales and streaming video revenue as well.

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The voting’s been going on for months now and there’s been plenty of shame to spread around for the Consumerist folks — who run a site that’s a subsidiary of the Consumer’s Union (which publishes Consumer Reports) and takes no advertising.

For a time, it seemed there would be a death match between Bank of America, Cash4Gold and Ticketmaster, but Comcast blew away the competition in the final rounds and emerged victorious.

According to the site, “the little cable company that could showed just how badly their horrendous service, exorbitant costs, throttled Internet and plans to acquire NBC Universal have ticked the Consumerist readers.”

The prize, which has yet to be delivered to the Philadelphia-based cable company, is the “Golden Poo.” Just let your imagination run wild, if you will.

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