Hey, Christopher_TCUIH...
If money is tight, I would recommend that you buy yr dvds (or blu rays) online. Ebay usually seels them way cheaper, and Im talking bran new, legit copies. Sometimes its a few dollars less than a store, sometimes its quite a bit, but if you buy dvds often, over time it makes a big difference.
LACK OF BONUS FEATURES ON STANDARD DVDs
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Christopher_TCUIH
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Hey thanks man! I am definitely going to get an ebay account when I get another job! *my mom isn't too keen on online shopping ever since we got scammed from some whack-o on amazon!Marce82 wrote:Hey, Christopher_TCUIH...
If money is tight, I would recommend that you buy yr dvds (or blu rays) online. Ebay usually seels them way cheaper, and Im talking bran new, legit copies. Sometimes its a few dollars less than a store, sometimes its quite a bit, but if you buy dvds often, over time it makes a big difference.
My friend got a hair straightener from ebay and it shipped from China and she said it works great and it was a good price!
You're from LA too right? If you're ever in Sherman Oaks or Santa Monica there is this really awesome store called Second Spin which is where I buy most of my disney dvds or dvds in general! They even have blu-ray too as well as video games, porn (haha), and cds! Thanks to SS I added 14 or 15 disney flicks to my collection! Most of the disney stuff is used but everything I've bought from them is like new. The discs are clean and scratch-free! The slipcovers are a little banged up sometimes but I don't really care if there is some wear here and there. The most expensive dvd I got there was Cinderella which was around 29 bucks since it was the gift set version. I got other classics like Peter Pan Platinum for only $14.99 so I'd definitely reccommend this store to you
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The opening post of this thread is spot-on. Nothing annoys me more than the public hand-wringing I see from studios and distributors bemoaning the increasingly larger decline in DVD (although I think they mean physical home video in general) sales. Recently there was news that sales had dropped by 20%.
Firstly, its obvious sales would drop - most of the back catalogue of movies have been released multiple-times on DVD, certainly the most popular, and there's only so many times you can get a customer to rebuy something that they already own. So sales are bound to have dropped.
Secondly, there's more ways of watching newly released movies these days than buying the DVD/BD - I can't even count on two hands how many different ways there are of streaming movies these days.
So again, sales are bound to have dropped.
But what annoys me is the studios aren't doing anything to make physical purchasing of movies attractive.
It's true that DVDs are being stripped of bonuses simply to encourage sales of blu-ray and that's 100% wrong. But let's face it, most Blu-rays consist of fewer supplements than we were getting on DVD four or five years ago. It's like the whole industry has just given up.
Its wrong to withhold extras from DVDs, short sighted too, because people aren't necessarily going to opt for the Blu-ray release with an extra 30 minutes or so of supplements. They could just as easily opt to stream a non-supplement version for a fraction of the cost of the disappointing DVD.
I personally strongly believe that Blu-ray as a format is inherently better than DVD. It's specifications alone are enough to sell for format - its just most discs don't make use of them beyond audio/visual. You can do some absolutely stunning things with blu-ray combined with PiP, BD-Live, BD-J and its storage. Simply withholding 10 minute featurettes and making them exclusive to the Blu-ray release does nothing to encourage disc producers to experiment or make full use of the format's capabilities.
If something is better - it should sell itself. It shouldn't need cheap-ass, lazy, unimaginative "stunts" like most major studios are using today. Withholding content from DVDs is the same as negative slanderous political campaigns - it's having to put one format down in order to make the other look better. And I think most people have got tired of such slogans, campaigns and marketing.
Call me old fashioned, but good, honest, positive marketing tends to make me like a product/person better than it would should the same product/person simply be belittling their competition. And Blu-ray as plenty of positive aspects to champion in its own right.
There is a negative trend for supplements in general (look at Disney's Alice in Wonderland - an absolutely pathetic DVD and Blu-ray release for such a blockbuster movie. Even the later 3D release was short-changed. Same for Tangled and The Princess and the Frog. All "making do" on the bare minimum of features lazily thrown together with little thought or effort.
Often when they do re-release a previously released movie they actually do so with less supplements than the original release? What the...? You're complaining sales are down, and yet you expect your customers to purchase (or in some cases re-purchase) an inferior copy of something that already exists?
Somebody said the golden days of DVD were over. I personally think (bar the odd exception which really do stand out) the golden days of physical media are over.
The opening post of this thread is spot-on. Nothing annoys me more than the public hand-wringing I see from studios and distributors bemoaning the increasingly larger decline in DVD (although I think they mean physical home video in general) sales. Recently there was news that sales had dropped by 20%.
Firstly, its obvious sales would drop - most of the back catalogue of movies have been released multiple-times on DVD, certainly the most popular, and there's only so many times you can get a customer to rebuy something that they already own. So sales are bound to have dropped.
Secondly, there's more ways of watching newly released movies these days than buying the DVD/BD - I can't even count on two hands how many different ways there are of streaming movies these days.
So again, sales are bound to have dropped.
But what annoys me is the studios aren't doing anything to make physical purchasing of movies attractive.
It's true that DVDs are being stripped of bonuses simply to encourage sales of blu-ray and that's 100% wrong. But let's face it, most Blu-rays consist of fewer supplements than we were getting on DVD four or five years ago. It's like the whole industry has just given up.
Its wrong to withhold extras from DVDs, short sighted too, because people aren't necessarily going to opt for the Blu-ray release with an extra 30 minutes or so of supplements. They could just as easily opt to stream a non-supplement version for a fraction of the cost of the disappointing DVD.
I personally strongly believe that Blu-ray as a format is inherently better than DVD. It's specifications alone are enough to sell for format - its just most discs don't make use of them beyond audio/visual. You can do some absolutely stunning things with blu-ray combined with PiP, BD-Live, BD-J and its storage. Simply withholding 10 minute featurettes and making them exclusive to the Blu-ray release does nothing to encourage disc producers to experiment or make full use of the format's capabilities.
If something is better - it should sell itself. It shouldn't need cheap-ass, lazy, unimaginative "stunts" like most major studios are using today. Withholding content from DVDs is the same as negative slanderous political campaigns - it's having to put one format down in order to make the other look better. And I think most people have got tired of such slogans, campaigns and marketing.
Call me old fashioned, but good, honest, positive marketing tends to make me like a product/person better than it would should the same product/person simply be belittling their competition. And Blu-ray as plenty of positive aspects to champion in its own right.
There is a negative trend for supplements in general (look at Disney's Alice in Wonderland - an absolutely pathetic DVD and Blu-ray release for such a blockbuster movie. Even the later 3D release was short-changed. Same for Tangled and The Princess and the Frog. All "making do" on the bare minimum of features lazily thrown together with little thought or effort.
Often when they do re-release a previously released movie they actually do so with less supplements than the original release? What the...? You're complaining sales are down, and yet you expect your customers to purchase (or in some cases re-purchase) an inferior copy of something that already exists?
Somebody said the golden days of DVD were over. I personally think (bar the odd exception which really do stand out) the golden days of physical media are over.
Most of my Blu-ray collection some of my UK discs aren't on their database
Well, the 2-disc DVD for Beauty and the Beast was great, but all the others were awful. I don't really have to have all the bonus features that are on the BluRay. I understand they want to save some things to make them exclusively available for BD-owners. But that just doesn't justify screwing over the 70% of people who still buy DVD only.
Only someone who's wrapped up in the echo-chambers of film buff-internet forums would say something like that. The general public is still mostly buying DVD-only.Victurtle wrote:You can say the same thing for laserdisc & DVDs. The bonus features existed, but they just didn't put them on. Sad to say, but the heyday of DVDs are over.
There are reasons that have to do with principles. Don't make broad statements like that.dvdjunkie wrote:Blu-ray players cost as little as $100 so there really is no reason not to buy one, unless there are other financial reasons you can't get into Blu yet.
I'm sorry, but I have read the UD review for the BD of Snow White, and those extra features are fantastic! I guess some people are never satisfied anymore.PheR wrote:[...] Snow White, BTAB and the Fantasia movies had outstanding special features on their DVD releases but on BD, not so much, and don't get me started on Bambi and TLK one disc editions.
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