The Official Omnibus Consolidated IS WARNER ABANDONING SNAPPER CASES? Thread (1 Viewer)

Jeff Kleist · Mar 10, 2003

http://www.videobusiness.com/article...7&catType=NEWS

Warner is prepping to sell Ivy Hill, makers of the hated snapper and WAMO, their authoring/manufacturing arm.

All cost benefit of the snapper will go if they don't own the company. Huzzah!

Rob T · Mar 10, 2003

Hopefully they won't sell it to another one of the big studios.

Jeff Ulmer · Mar 10, 2003

It's about time.

Peter Kline · Mar 10, 2003

Got scared for a moment, thought you were talking about the fish!

Edwin-S · Mar 10, 2003

If it does go, it will be too bad. Not because of the cardboard covers which I don't care for, but because the hub design is one of, if not the best, that I have seen in any of these cases. The disc is held securely but still releases easily resulting in little stress on the disc. The same cannot be said for a lot of the other hub designs.

Bryant Frazer · Mar 10, 2003

I wonder if Warner Home Video's existing contracts with WAMO/Ivy Hill will go along with the company itself -- and if they specify that the snapper case is to be used exclusively for some number of years.

-bf-

Ed St. Clair · Mar 10, 2003

Praise Be!

Patrick McCart · Mar 10, 2003

Yay!

Now a lot of people will stop bitching about them!

And I supposed they would re-issue their snapper titles with any new pressing. Kino and Image do this with their DVDs.

Jesse Skeen · Mar 10, 2003

I'm going to start bitching when my DVDs DON'T come in a snapper! How's THAT?

Travis_W · Mar 10, 2003

I can't even imagine a Warner DVD without a snapper. It seemed natural for New Line to go to amaray but it'll take some adjusting. But we don't know for sure if they're going to stop snappers though so nothing's set in stone.

Tony-B · Mar 10, 2003

Wonderful! Thanks for the great news, Jeff.

Mark Zimmer · Mar 10, 2003

Now if Warner would just start actually issuing some of its movies on DVD all would be right with the world.....

Peter Kline · Mar 10, 2003

There is discussion about selling those divisions but no final decision. I would suspect that when and if Ivy Hill is sold (probably to similiar company) part of the agreement will be a long term contract to continue to supply WB with snappers. Art directors love the snapper and its' variations. They don't like the Amray-styled plastic box (it is ugly you know).

Malcolm R · Mar 10, 2003

As Peter said, the company would have no value if it's biggest client suddenly stopped buying the product. I'd imagine if WB is seeking to sell-off the snapper company, that they'll be using snappers for a long time to come.

And there will still be financial benefits to be realized if WB can get a good price on the snappers and not have to pay all the overhead to manufacture them.

Jeff Kleist · Mar 10, 2003

Hence the "may"

Ivy Hill has many more projects

Patrick McCart · Mar 10, 2003

Now if Warner would just start actually issuing some of its movies on DVD all would be right with the world.....

Quality, not quantity.

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StevenW · Mar 10, 2003

They don't like the Amray-styled plastic box (it is ugly you know).

It is? Funny because I think its the other way around.

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Walt Riarson · Mar 10, 2003

Got scared for a moment, thought you were talking about the fish!

"Ah, Red Snapper...very tasty!"

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Mark Zimmer · Mar 11, 2003

Quality, not quantity.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Warner needs to hire more than two people to actually work on getting DVDs developed and put onto the market. At the rate Warner's going, we'll see the interesting things in the RKO catalog on DVD in the year 2247. And I fear my eyes may not be up to the task by then.

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Joshua Clinard · Mar 11, 2003

I hope this means the end of the snapper!

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