Re: HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy
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Originally Posted by BillyFeldman
Would you consider that sales of under 6000 units on a well-known and well-loved classic catalog title is a good thing? Because that's the reality - and that's why classic titles are so slow in coming.
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Pfft. Just two months ago,
Pinocchio was the top-selling Blu-ray, double that of the nearest competitor,
Transporter 3, and was 15% of total sales for the title, even at a $10 premium. And the topic of this thread--the
Star Trek Trilogy--had a Blu-ray release that made up 35% of sales for that title.
So, what, pray tell, is the magical title that sold under 6000 units? And if your "evidence" is from back in 2007, then don't even bother.
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| Sorry, but Quantum of Solace isn't going to make Blu-Ray into a winning format, nor is The Dark Knight, nor is the new Star Trek. That's not what made DVD a winning format. I wish it were otherwise, and I hope it IS otherwise, but right now it is not otherwise, no matter how people would like to spin it. |
Wow.
You didn't even bother to do a Google search before inserting your foot into your mouth on this one. Or else you would have found this (emphasis mine):
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It is official, The Dark Knight is the fastest selling Blu-ray movie ever. Many have speculated that the movie would push Blu-ray mainstream, similarly to the way The Matrix pushed DVDs mainstream back in 1999. At this rate, Blu-ray players may become the de facto standard for many homes by next year.
According to Yahoo, The Dark Knight managed to sell more than 600,000 units on its first day. This shatters the previous record set by Iron Man, which sold 260,000 on its first day. It took a week for Iron Man to even sell 500,000. The Dark Knight is expected to sell over a million copies over the weekend.
The Matrix managed to sell 780,000 units during its first week back in 1999 on the DVD. This is a good sign because The Dark Knight managed to sell close to what The Matrix sold in one week. |
The Dark Knight pushes Blu-ray past DVD sales of The Matrix - TECH.BLORGE.com
So conventional wisdom has the Matrix DVD as the bellwether, and even that title's 1-week take was nearly matched by official sales of
Dark Knight in 1
day. So now who's spinning? Are you going to say Nielsen this time?
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Originally Posted by BillyFeldman
Funny, I began buying DVDs right at the beginning and I just don't recall any that cost above thirty bucks, and even the 29.98 list prices were very few and far between - most were between 19.98 and 24.98 back then with ten to twenty percent discounts from many retailers.
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Oh, wait, you're serious? Too bad for you many websites archive their history. A quick look at, say,
Disney's DVD announcements for 1997-1999 (the first two years of DVD in the US) show
every single one of their announcements--catalog and day-and-date--had DVD MSRPs were $30...or higher! Even for studios that had MAP (minimum advertised price, i.e. the lowest they could portray the price), many weren't allowed to sell below $25.
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| It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that if the prices don't drop this will never grow - ever. Cannot happen. |
Too bad for this argument that we've had several recent announcements of price drops for both hardware and software. This is, of course, added to the dozens from before.
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