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Warner's DVDs are usually inexpensive. I'm willing to bet it's because they use snap cases and digipacks.
Having said that, I want WB to do whatever they can to make their discs cheaper. Their 2-disc Chaplin DVDs are going to cost less than the 1-disc original editions by Image when they were on sale! You can get many of their DVDs for under $20 and they're full special editions.
If using snappers keeps costs down, please stick with them!
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Warner has always gone cheap in their packaging. While MGM, Fox, Criterion and some others nearly always used gatefold jackets for their 2-disc LD releases, Warner simply modified their already thin-walled jackets to accomodate an extra disc. It just cried out, "We don't give a damn".
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| The majority of us DO...NOT...LIKE...THESE...CHEAP, NON-REPLACEABLE...CASES...AT...ALL! |
Again, which marketing study confirms that assertion? Furthermore, forums such as HTF do serve a purpose to the studios, but they are only a small part of the mainstream market in which many consumers might not give a hoot about the packaging. It would seem likely to me that Warner has conducted a marketing survey on this matter and only they can confirm whether the data supports their continuation in the snapper packaging.
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If you read the chat transcript from last week, you will see their answers.
Haunt your local video stores and if you make friends you can probably get keepcase slicks from them for new titles
The Snapper is basically gone everywhere but here, and given that Ivy Hill is possibly being sold, that would eventually lead to the death of the Snapper hypothetically. If you do a search, you will find an address to send broken snapper trays to for replacements
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I am always disappointed when I see a snapper case. Has not stopped my purchases of this packaging.
But I have passed over sales bins, several times, which were full of them, preferring to browse the bin, which had hard cases. So psychologically, I do perceive them as ‘cheap’ and applied possibly to less desirable titles.
In addition, - hate it when the center keeper tab on a hard case is one which is difficult to release the disc without flexing it, or when it breaks and you hear your disc rattling around the case sliding over what’s left of the tab.
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I say for the love of God STOP putting those "SECURITY DEVICE ENCLOSED" stickers on the cases!! Put them on the OUTSIDE of the shrinkwrap!!
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Dan:
Warner Bros. doesn't crop 1.85:1 movies on the sides to 1.78:1. They simply matte a little bit less. Viola. That's how Paramount, Disney, and Universal does it, too.
Showing North By Northwest or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at 1.78:1 instead of 1.85:1 only adds picture information. On a 16x9 TV, the overscan probably turns it into 1.85:1 anyways.
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| Yes, that's what happens for open matte photography. However, what I do have a problem with is that they do this to hard-matted films as well leaving (after overscan) a much more cramped composition because the sides do get cropped. Not just for some titles like other studios, but 100% of them no matter what. |
Name some titles.
Some flat (as in 1.66:1, 1.75:1, 1.85:1) films are indeed hard-matted. However, they're usually hard matted to less than what the projected ratio is. For example, Shrek seems to be around 1.66:1 or 1.70:1 on film, hard-matted. The DVD mattes a little bit more on the top and bottom. The pan & scan version actually reveals a tiny bit on the top and bottom (but of course cuts a little off the sides).
Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece
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Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on
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Dan, I challenge you to, in an A/B comparison tell me the difference between 1.78:1 and 1.85:1 transfer of the same shot
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Re: Warner Brothers: For the love of God stop using those snapper cases!
Wow - what an odd thread to revive after almost five years!
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Re: Warner Brothers: For the love of God stop using those snapper cases!
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Or are there new snapper releases I'm not aware of?
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No, but apparently there's some sarcasm you let fly in under the radar...
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http://www.dvdanthology.com/Filmmaker-movielist.html),
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Re: Warner Brothers: For the love of God stop using those snapper cases!
The actual security tags on snappers are on the back of the plastic trays. What I hated was when they started putting stickers on the outside to seal them shut, with text reading "SECURITY DEVICE ENCLOSED"- peeling those off would sometimes damage the covers. Same for the tape on the top with the movie title; when they started using those they were on the outside of the shrinkwrap, but later started putting them right on the case.
Since Warner has now for the love of god stopped using those snapper cases, I hate getting keepcases with no insert inside- at least the snappers always had something on the inner cover.
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