Not to mention the costs of authoring, disc pressing, marketing and distribution. In the enthusiasm for the release of a title, people sometimes lose sight of just how costly a project can be.
Having spoken to a Paramount insider, the sales of television shows on Blu-ray are considered to be disappointing at best. Even at this stage, they find that when an item is released on both DVD and Blu-ray, the DVD version outsells the Blu-ray 10 to 1.