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why the heck do they take dvds out of print? some of us can't afford to get the dvds right when they come out. i guess now i wont be able to get them for my children to enjoy as they grow up! i say we start a petition to have disney keep the dvds around for all people to enjoy and purchase!

come on people comment!

They only produce so many. Plus putting the titles OOP makes the demand for them high, so when they are eventually re-released they sale.

Sometimes its still easy to find some OOP titles, it just depends if the stores still have them in stock. Or in wierd cases like the movie Fletch (which is supposed to still be OOP) they just start appearing in Wal-Mart for $4.88.

bunnieeprincess wrote:come on people comment!

bunnieeprincess, welcome to the forum.

I just want to tell you that comments like "come on people comment!" are incredibly annoying (especially done more than once--an infamous member named Teede has been known to do this sort of thing) and you will probably gain more enemies than friends on the board by doing so. You know what you said about how people can't always buy DVDs the first time they come out? Well, members can't always post the first time a thread comes out. Be patient.

My guess is that they probably make DVDs OOP to increase the number of sales.

bunnieeprincess wrote:come on people comment!

How Rude

One reason is so they can make new editions later on. Also Stores don't have room to carry every movie available on DVD. So when it stops selling they either make it a cheapo DVD or they take it out of print

Its a marketing strategy. By saying that the DVD will go out of print, it forces more people to buy because they are afraid that once its out of print the price is going to rise, which is true because the DVds aren't produced anymore! Memnv's reason is also true.

It's your garden variety demand. By making a DVD OOP it raises demand for the movie so they can re-release it as a super-duper nifty platnium edition later on. Wouldn't it be a bad business decision to just keep DVDs on store shelves and not make them OOP sooner or later? I mean wouldn't stores lose money that way?

They should keep them on the shelves so they don't lose money to bootleggers.

There will always be bootleggers even if they were all still in print (although I'm sure they would make less).

New business: buy out entire stocks of disney movies, hold for 2-3 years..then slowly release the market

talk about $$$$

It also makes the rerelease a big deal, and that can not only be exciting for the fans of a movie, but is again, a really good marketing strategy. If it hasn't been available for a while, fans will be eager to flock to the store and buy the movie and...it'll sell.

Disney are the only company that I can think of who do delete their DVDs after a short period.

The really annoying thing is that they fail to see that they have a constantly developing market as there are always new children who want to see the films.

Why don't they just release each film as a single DVD, which stays on the market, and have Double DVD Limited Edition release for the fans ?

This method of bumping up sales near release has worked on the CD market for a number of years.

You don't see classic albums being deleted after a year.

Why should it be different for DVDs ?

Though the deleting of titles shortly after release has always been something that Disney have done, even with the old VHS market.

its all for $$$:excellent:
Other companies do 'delete' their movies sometimes...(Let them go out of print) I know Criterion does this , although I dont see a pattern that I can follow, Robocop and This is Spinal Tap were hard to find.
I remember Mask going out of print( the Cher movie) for a while.
I dont know what studio that was. A Little Princess was too I think, but I see it on a double pack now......
Im sure there are a gajillion others.

I remember back several years ago that Anchor Bay released half of its Disney films on DVD. But now it is still out of print because Anchor Bay had already lost the rights and the rights goes back to Disney to re-release it on DVD under the Disney name as Luke mentioned.

GOGOinVegas wrote:its all for $$$:excellent:
Other companies do 'delete' their movies sometimes...(Let them go out of print) I know Criterion does this , although I dont see a pattern that I can follow, Robocop and This is Spinal Tap were hard to find.
I remember Mask going out of print( the Cher movie) for a while.
I dont know what studio that was. A Little Princess was too I think, but I see it on a double pack now......
Im sure there are a gajillion others.

The Criterion releases depend on licences from other studios, and in a handful of cases the licence is very limited (a year or two).

At least with Disney we all know the rules - It Will Go Out Of Print At Some Point Soon So Buy It While You Can.

Some other labels delete their titles quietly in the dead of night, and suddenly you find that movie you've been putting off buying for ages in the hope it might come cheap has magically disappeared from shelves everywhere and you can't get it for love nor money (although you can get it on eBay if you're willing to sell a kidney).

I'm sorry I couldn't post a reply in the first 30 MINUTES!! My goodness. I like the fact that they put movies OOP. It makes things more interesting and makes you keep up on your Disney info. more and it would wipe out about half of the posts on this website if they didn't take movies OOP.

yearsago wrote:New business: buy out entire stocks of disney movies, hold for 2-3 years..then slowly release the market

talk about $$$$

Somehow I doubt that is a new idea!!

Ok, I got a question; they are not making MORE money by putting the titles out of print. What they are doing is limiting access, and thus limiting their own sales!

Who makes the money when Disney stops making the titles available - it is the secondary sellers who still have the product that profit, not Disney. Wouldn't Disney make MORE if they left the product up for sale for somoene like me, the Johnny-come-lately, who becomes interested in buying it? I would love to buy Snow White or Pinochio, but now I can't because they've retired these 2 titles. If I want, I could pay $100 to these private sellers to obtain a copy of one of these DVDs. the only person now benefitting is this private seller. How is Disney benefitting from this?

GOGOinVegas wrote:I remember Mask going out of print( the Cher movie) for a while. I dont know what studio that was.

Universal.