What's new

Game of Thrones Season 5 home video (1 Viewer)

Sam Favate

Premium
Senior HTF Member
Joined
Feb 3, 2004
Messages
12,948
Real Name
Sam Favate
In what is surely a sign of the times (and not a good one IMO), HBO is releasing Game of Thrones season 5 digitally next month (Aug. 31) but the DVDs and Blu-Rays will have to wait until March 15, 2016.


http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/30/game-thrones-season-5-dvd


The download will include bonus material, but it's not clear to me that the DVDs and blu-rays won't include more (since the box often includes more than they've listed).


I don't like this. Yet another studio manipulating the appeal of digital releases (have it now!) over physical media (wait 7 months!).
 

Adam Lenhardt

Senior HTF Member
Joined
Feb 16, 2001
Messages
26,971
Location
Albany, NY
I'm frankly astounded that HBO is doing this. It would seem to torpedo their whole business model since it makes HBO content available to non-subscribers less than 3 months after the season finale aired. It's far enough after the original air date that it wouldn't have made much a dent in the piracy problem, but it's soon enough to disincentivize people from paying the subscriber fees for future seasons.
 

Bryan^H

Senior HTF Member
Joined
Jul 3, 2005
Messages
9,515
Yeah for those without HBO and dying to catch up on the show, this will absolutely kill sales of the Blu Ray Set.
Somebody, somewhere is on a mission to eliminate physical media.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Latest Articles

Forum statistics

Threads
356,814
Messages
5,123,637
Members
144,184
Latest member
H-508
Recent bookmarks
0
Top