its going to be http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1012-zatoichi-the-blind-swordsmanTWENTY SEVEN discs - Dual Format, for $225 list price, which is $112.50 at the BN sale (happening that month THANK GOD)Also City Lights - Dual Format
My only problem with that is that most likely, a $40 MSRP will now be minimum no matter how light the disc is on special features. Given the relatively small number of $30 titles they release, it's not a huge deal but I'm glad that The Uninvited is coming out just in time so that I don't have to pay for a DVD that I don't want.Moe Dickstein said:I am just so blown over about the Dual Format switch. Finally the next step in the elimination of DVD has been taken
Criterion titles are already expensive enough (regardless of the B&N sales).JohnMor said:Yeah, I'm not really understanding the philosophy of this. Why not just drop the dvd version altogether if it's not economically viable on its own? Why saddle blu-ray owners with dvds they probably don't want? (In my case, I definitely don't want.)
Well, hopefully it won't. Maybe the prices will remain the same, even on the $30 ones. Maybe they're just trying to save on the extra costs of printing the dvd size artwork and booklets and supplying dvd size cases.But, yeah, if we have to pay for these unwanted dvds, thenMike Frezon said:Criterion titles are already expensive enough (regardless of the B&N sales).
If this makes them more expensive...
If they get too expensive, I'll just buy less of them. Many of the Criterion titles are not "must" buys for me so it will make my purchasing decision even easier.Mike Frezon said:Criterion titles are already expensive enough (regardless of the B&N sales).
If this makes them more expensive...
Looking at the MSRPs of the November titles, they're still $40 so the inclusion of the DVD hasn't increased the price. The test will be when there's a Blu-ray that's really light on special features and it's either $30 (as they've previously been) or are now $40 (because of the DVD).Mike Frezon said:Criterion titles are already expensive enough (regardless of the B&N sales).
If this makes them more expensive...
Exactly. And I'd bet there's a good chance those stay $30, as the disc was probably the least expensive element of the DVD releases the last few years as compared the doubling up the packaging/booklets.Sent from my VS920 4G using Tapatalk 2TravisR said:Looking at the MSRPs of the November titles, they're still $40 so the inclusion of the DVD hasn't increased the price. The test will be when there's a Blu-ray that's really light on special features and it's either $30 (as they've previously been) or are now $40 (because of the DVD).
This has been my policy from the start. I have no need for a dvd so I'm not happy about this.Robert Crawford said:If they get too expensive, I'll just buy less of them. Many of the Criterion titles are not "must" buys for me so it will make my purchasing decision even easier.