Star Trek Voyager Sales (1 Viewer)

[Colin Jacobson]

Are you saying they should have stopped with any SERIES after DS9 ended, or that Paramount should have stopped putting out Trek DVDs once they finished with DS9?

 

[Jack Briggs]

Colin, he was saying that he thinks the franchise itself should have gone on hiatus after its last good TV series -- not that DVDs should not be released.

 

[Bill Williams]

Hmmmm...let's see now... (cue the sound of a calculator) five discs, MSRP of $100... that comes out to $20 per disc...

Compare that to the six-disc set of Smallville: Season 1... six discs, purchase price of $55... average price: $9 per disc...

(hits the equals button, clicks three times)

Nope. Not getting it at that outrageously high price. I'll wait until either it comes down in price or until I find a good used copy for much less.

Paramount, either lower your prices or lose your customer base. Your choice.

Yeah right, like that'll ever happen...

 

[Jason Seaver]

Ah, the common fallacy that all content is worth the same. Not that I'd claim that one hour of Voyager is worth as much as two hours of Smallville, but for Paramount's target audience, it may well be.

 

[Greg_S_H]

And isn't it the case that the Trek cast and crew get pretty good deals as far as royalty goes? Probably better than the Smallville cast were able to negotiate.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

That's what I thought as well, but I wanted to check. The problem with that concept is that Voyager started to run WHILE DS9 was already on the air. As such, there couldn't be a hiatus after DS9 ended - it was too late!

 

[Jeff_HR]

I've resorted to eBay auctions to try to lower the cost for buying the sets.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Well, that's the sort of thing that doesn't really become public knowledge until someone like David Duchovny or Alan Alda thinks they're underpaid, but I doubt it's an issue for Voyager. TNG, yeah, I've heard that Patrick Stewart had a pretty good deal by the time the series concluded; DS9 had enough high-B guys in its ensemble (Brooks, Meaney, Auberjonois, Shimmerman) that I imagine royalties could pile up. But for Voyager and Enterprise, outside of the leads, Berman & company were deliberately casting folks who would be happy for the work ad wouldn't make much in the way of demands.

It's a matter of Paramount charging what the market will bear - they know that there is a group of fans that will pay $100+ to have Star Trek now. As Kevin says, when all the series are on DVD next year, they'll probably drop the price to get the folks who would buy Trek for $75. Then, when that group is tapped out, the $50 people.

 

[david_slater]

i have to live on $600 a month and you dont see me crying about paying $90 for a set! :rolleyes

i remember a time i use to pay $75 for just one show.
with the cheap prices they have now i now have almost 900 DVD's not counting my tapes and stuff i have recorded. and the sets in my dvd's im only counting as one.

 

[ScottRichard]

I guess a lot of people must not remember the days when you had to pay $15 to $20 for 2 episodes of a tv series on VHS! That would be at least $200 for just one season of a series. Not to mention if the series ran for 7 years, like TNG, DS9, and Voyager, you'd be talking about 85 tapes to collect the entire series!

 

[david_slater]

yep, and that was not all that long ago at that.
now the $75 a show was some time ago.
boy it was high then.
blank tapes was $10 each for TDK at that time.
the cheap prices they have now is gravy for me.
my first vcr was $2000.
my first computer was $1500 and had only 4k mem.
no drive, no color, no sound and you had to program it yourself.

anyway, so far i have all of the released startreks.
star trek, star trek: TNG, star trek: DS9 and now working on star trek: Voyager.
im thinking about geting the star trek: box set to save on space. i already have someone to buy my old star trek DVDs.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I bought TNG and DS9 as released, but refuse to pay even a reduced price of £59/set for Voyager to get the scattering of gems in that show. Especially when I saw TNG sets on sale at Virgin and online at play.com for £34 end of last year!

I'll probably pick them up next year when I can get a better deal. With regard to TOS going for less, no way; that has a shorter run and more cache with more fans -- it'll definitely be the same price or higher with more extras than the other series.

I have no interest in Enterprise at all and will permanently pass on that one.

 

[david_slater]

ill be buying Enterprise.
Enterprise is better then DS9 to me.
and i still got all of DS9.

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

You like Enterprise better than DS9??? Why?
Enterprise has none of the complexity or the interesting characters that DS9 had.
Enterprise as well as Voyager are Trek lite or Sci Fi lite as far as I am concerned.

 

[david_slater]

to me Voyager was #2 and star trek: tng #3 DS9 was in last place.
i like my star trek to boldy go somewhere...

 

[david_slater]

ps..

Babylon 5 was a much better show then star trek: DS9.
witch i have all of as well...

 

[Jeff]

Oh my. I've never come across anyone who liked Enterprise better than DS9. Geez, I've watched the entire DS9 series five times over. And Enterprise? I haven't watched the show since the middle of season one; and I will never continue on. I even like Voyager way better than Enterprise.

Ok, my rant is over. I know it's different strokes for different folks.


Jeff

 

[Sven Lorenz]

Here's a comment by Robert H. Wolfe (one of the writers/producers of DS9) about the DS9 DVD sales:



It's nothing concrete but it's nice to hear that they're selling *far* better than expected.

Robert is answering questions about DS9 on this board:

http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=14822&st=0

 

[Gary Seven]

That's what I say about everything after TNG.

"Created by" and "Based on" are completely different things.

I'll buy the sets when they show up in the mark down bins.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Looks like I was right about the TOS sets. Play.com has them listed for £9 more than VOY and they appear to be 7-8 discs -- even for series 3, so I expect loads of extras on each set.