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Originally Posted by Danny Burk
My guess is that there's a connection to HP's DVD manufactured-on-demand service announced a year ago in January. The article below says that Sony will be the first major studio using the service, which obviously hasn't yet come about
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Originally Posted by Hank E
Guess they're right because I'm over 40... and I just ordered 5 titles! And I'd do it again!!
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Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
If you don't want them then don't buy them. However, it appears a bunch of people are doing just that, buying them.
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Originally Posted by marcSV
I've posted this before but: as opposed to what was announced in the chat session and on Robert Crawford's initial entry, the Warner Archive is NOT AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE. The DVDs can only be shipped to Stateside addresses. Does anybody know whether this is going to change? Why did Warners announce worldwide availability when the Web site refuses to ship outside the U.S.A. This is a little disappointing and inconvenient if you don't happen to be residing in the United States. Why block customers who live elsewhere?
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| There will be a availability of product WORLDWIDE shortly through the Warner Archive Collection. SHORTLY. We just don't have a date yet...it could be only a few days away.... bear with us...This would be only applicable to the films where we hold worldwide rights, which is MOST of them. |
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Originally Posted by Hank E
Don't you just love this quote:
"... Instead, the site "aims squarely at the over-40 set who enjoy building up physical collections of DVDs and will be familiar with the titles," notes the Wall Street Journal story." |
I am under 40 and have been collecting classics by the thousands for 23 years. And no my goal is not build up walls of films, it's to watch them over and over! 
The Wall Street Journal should stick to Wall Street. 
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Originally Posted by Hank E
Don't you just love this quote:
"If the idea of buying a made-to-order DVD sounds pretty archaic, well … that's because Warners Brothers isn't targeting its "archive" service for the likes of you and me. Instead, the site "aims squarely at the over-40 set who enjoy building up physical collections of DVDs..." |
| New Warner Website Swamped With Orders for Vintage Movies If you're having trouble ordering from Warner Home Video's new on-demand DVD and download site that I wrote about a couple of posts back, it's because the demand has far exceeded the studio's wildest expectations on opening day. I just got off the phone with a jubiliant WHV honcho George Feltenstein, who reports that within two hours of the site going live this morning, orders were placed for 140 of the initial 150 titles. "And they might have gotten orders on those other ten by now,'' he tells me. "It's more traffic than we can handle.'' He said the top-secret on-demand project was in the works for two years, "well before the retail landscape for DVDs started to shrink.'' George said the hugely ambitious goal is to make Warners' entire 5000-title catalogue, including hundreds of titles from MGM, RKO and other studios, available, a project that "may take 10 years to accomplish.'' He said the initial offering, which will be supplemented by at least 20 features each and every month -- around 450 are scheduled for the end of 2010 -- was chosen from among titles most requested by fans, as well as titles for which the studios has the good masters. "There's are at least a couple of thousand people who want each of these titles out there,'' he says,."And we wanted to put out titles that look as good as our regular commercial releases.'' He said he was particularly happy to recently discover a good widescreen transfer of Budd Boetticher's much-requested "Westbound,'' his only Randolph Scott western not available on DVD. George said that two of my most wanted titles, Michael Curtiz' "Mission to Moscow'' and Wilhelm Dieterle's "The Last Flight,'' will "probably'' be available next year. Hooray! ("Portnoy's Complaint'' is coming too). The titles in the Warner Archive program are burned rathan than pressed like WHV's regular discs, but George says tests show these discs, burned with a proprietary technology, "are as durable and playable as pressed discs. They're not like discs you burn on your home computer.'' George emphasized that these releases were intended to supplement WHV's regular retail releases, which will continue to feature supplemental features not available in the new bare-bones discs. He's going to announce some upcoming titles tonight on Home Theater Forum. "If initial sales are any indication, we're in for a long ride,'' he tells me. |
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Originally Posted by MarcoBiscotti
I DO want them. I just think they are overpriced and what I DON'T want is to spend $20 a pop on a barebones dvd-r, only to possibly have it turn up at a later date as a proper retail release. THAT is my concern and one that has yet to be addressed by the powers that be.
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Originally Posted by BradleyS
How is Warners supposed to address your concern? Promise that they'll never give any of the Archive movies a wide release? They've already said that some of the titles will eventually go to retail, but they don't necessarily know which ones or when. The Archive program allows for instant gratification; but if someone doesn't want to risk the chance of double dipping, I suppose they can be patient and wait to see what eventually gets released in the years to come.
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Originally Posted by Jefty
not that my opinion matters to Warners anyway, since I'm Canadian
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Originally Posted by TravisR
Read the thread before complaining.
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Originally Posted by Jefty
If there are ordering channels for Canadians, I won't be using them. I hope people boycott this whole project.
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Originally Posted by TravisR
There's nothing that anyone can say to someone that won't even try to find out correct information and hopes for a boycott (which, from the sounds of it, isn't happening).
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Originally Posted by Jefty
(although initial reports did say they would only ship to US addresses--sorry if I expect press releases to give correct information)
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Originally Posted by Jefty
...I don't think this is a good deal, for anyone who has access to TCM.
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Originally Posted by Timothy E
As a former resident of Canada, I can relate to the frustration being expressed in this thread by movie lovers outside the United States who feel like they are being treated poorly by Warner Bros. shipping their DVD Archive collection only to addresses within the United States.
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| 1). There will be a availability of product WORLDWIDE shortly through the Warner Archive Collection. SHORTLY. We just don't have a date yet...it could be only a few days away.... bear with us...This would be only applicable to the films where we hold worldwide rights, which is MOST of them. |
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Originally Posted by ChrisPearson
I can understand people's excitement at getting some of their favourite films on DVD, and appreciate that these are among Warner's more obscure titles. But to go from paying $10 or less for a loaded DVD to paying twice that or more for bare bones -- in a recession no less -- is a bit rich. Isn't it reasonable for some of us to feel somewhat locked out?
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