Did Paramount quit the catalog releasing business? - Page 2

Do people still buy catalog titles on DVD in 2011? I thought most already owned the titles they wanted and the rest are waiting for the Blu-ray release so they won't have to double dip

Personally I don't like to as I would just as soon wait for the BD, but I'm realistic with some titles.  It its taken over 10 years to come out on DVD, how long will it take for Blu-ray?
 

 

I don't see Paramount rupturing itself to release much of its back catalogue on BD.  I'm not sure I'd hold my breath to see them embracing VOD or streaming for that matter.  They just don't seem to be bothered as long as they can flog a handful of cash cows and dead horses.

Absolutely yes!  I would still buy catalog titles on DVD whenever the studios choose to release them.  The titles I'm itching to buy are titles that will likely not show up on BluRay anytime soon, if ever.  The films of Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Fred MacMurray, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and all the other Paramount greats that MCA/Universal is sitting on and not releasing.  I don't need these titles on BluRay at $25 each, but more DVD box sets like those done for Colbert, West, Dietrich and Cooper would be most appreciated.  Release them on DVD-R if necessary, but get them out there!

 

Absolutely yes here, too, for much of the same reasons.

Ditto!  As much as I love Blu-Ray, I'm not going to wait around for deep-catalog titles to hit Blu-Ray when many still have not  hit SD.  When a title appears on both formats, I'll usually take Blu, but that depends on price, quality of picture and other factors.
 

 

Yes, but you're taling about titles that willnever come to blu-ray

 

How many will wait for a Blu-ray of "The Shootist" or  "Breakfast At Tiffany's" then triple dip on a DVD (is it even triple now, hasn't this title gone through 5 DVD releases?)

 

Most of my DVD purchasing is for stuff that has no chance of coming out on Blu-Ray or TV shows that have even less of a chance (or were shot on tape, in which case a Blu-Ray would show no gain in picture quality).

 

For me as a lover of classic film, there are only two kinds of catalog titles:  those, like College Rhythm with Lyda Roberti that will never come to BluRay and those, like Breakfast at Tiffany's that keep coming out again and again and again.  You asked if people still buy catalog titles on DVD in 2011.  And my answer is yes to the former and no to the latter.  I'm done buying Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Shootist on DVD because I already have definitive DVDs and I know the only enticement for me to repurchase those titles might be a BluRay.  But a DVD release of The Miracle Man, starring Sylvia Sidney?  Yes, indeed!

 

In other words, if it's a title that's never come to DVD after fourteen years of the format, I'm not holding out for a BluRay.  If it's a title that comes out every four years, I'm not buying it again on DVD and will think twice before even purchasing a BluRay.
 

 

Warner noir boxes are day 1 purchases for me and just about the only DVD's I've purchased in the last few years.

I was just at Best Buy Burbank and they added some Paramount titles in the 7.99 bin. Quite a few were considered out of print. Amongst the titles, Fatal Attraction, Payback, Black Rain, Nacho Libre, Dreamgirls, The Untouchables, The Warriors, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, Blades of Glory, Indecent Proposal and Love Guru.

1492- Please!