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One question about pressed vs burned, I've got burned cds over fifteen years old that still work and burned dvds at least twelve years old that still work, the only DVD I have that has failed is a pressed disc of a face in the crowd that was otherwise brand new other than having set on my shelf...

I didn't get this week's email for some reason, can someone post it?

It's only wishful thinking, but I interpreted that podcast comment to be that we'd get golden collection volume 7 from the archive.

according to the podcast, George Feltenstein said that they have released 1632 feature films to DVD for the first time ever. That's a pretty amazing number since March 2009. And of course they've had many MORE releases on top of the 1632 new-to-dvd feature films. The stats talk is about 37...

iirc they've never released new releases the week of 4th of july.

1200 titles (and counting) times 100 copies of each is 120,000 discs that need to be stored somewhere.

I would guess that WB Archives is very proud of themselves for these releases. They identified that the three most popular titles were also the most problematic (likely due to overprinting because they were popular) but they also identified that there was demand for Harlow titles. They went...

Red Dust! a shame it's not getting a bluray release, it looks wonderful in 35mm.

You're totally right. :)

Random: I caught an episode of the Undercover Boss show a while back, and it reminded me of a 1930s movie, but I don't know the title! It featured an owner of a department store who is outraged that his store might go on strike, and it turns out his store is about to go on strike, so he goes...

Well a lot of time could have passed between when the telecines were made and today. Thirty years or more of deterioration could have built up since the last time some of those titles were transferred. This is all hypothetical: say, 1982, they want to broadcast Trader Horn, so they...

I'm baffled that was taken as an insult. I'm sorry.

This is deeply naive and misconstrues what studios often mean by rights issues: Rights issues can be complex. Rights can revert, or expire, most commonly with music, which often had limited rights releases back when there was no home video. The old contracts may only be valid for...

often, rights issues are music issues. Like, say an ad-libbed line of dialog quotes a lyric of a song, that has to be cleared, legally. Or, more likely, there was a limited music release for a piece of music. It could also be that an actor or producer or writer had an unusual contract that...

that means the titles have about a 1 in a 1000 chance of going oop. Pretty fucking great legal department they have at WB. dotting the "I"s and crossing the "T"s. OOP is a term that will have less and less meaning in the digital future. In a world where all content ever created is...

Again, this is a long term strategy for Warner, they'll run sales to stay somewhat price competitive with the loss-leader sales in big box sales, but in a few years, there won't be much media available for purchase in stores. At that point, Warner Archive can phase out their sales and have over...

they're not rip off artists, they're establishing a price floor for the long term future of physical media. Compared to Bargain Bin prices, their prices are high, but remember that most of the bargain bin films are in the bargain bin because there is near zero demand for the films. If there is...

what were the new releases this week?

TCM does one or two at a time, are you proposing the WB archives limit itself to 12-24 releases a year?

yup, 1000 archive titles, if printed in 10,000 copy runs, would require 135,873 square feet of storage space. But hey, to complainers on the internet, storage space is either free or doesn't exist!

So alternatively WBA should have not put it back in print? Or should they have pressed 5000 copies, most of which will never sell, that will cost them $20,000 (or more) to manufacture and sell them at a significant loss?

Yes, for all of bigshots claims it doesn't cost anything it is evident WB spends an enormous budget annually on The Archives getting each and every title ready by caring properly for it. What costs next to nothing is what Disney did with Amy et al.

No cost to produce? Telecine (couple thousand) Tape stock (couple hundred) Authoring (???) Check disc process (couple hundred, just a PA afterall) misc costs (couple hundred) I'd say WB probably incurs around 3000-5000 in cost per film, at 20/disc (which is bad math, as it presumes they...

Oh give me a break, you don't have 20,000 to spend on 1000 WB Archives disc, but you do have 10,000 to spend? We're still talking an enormous investment even if the price were the $10/title everyone online craves.

if this were a certain forum that fetishizes little numbers on the spines of dvds we'd have had a thirty page argument about the superiority of the Laserdisc for showing more image vertically and that the cropping was more pleasing to the eye.

While you could just hook a deck up to a DVD recorder and burn a disc from the deck to the DVD, you'd have to page up the master tape every time an order was made (and they get a lot of orders). The big drawbacks are that this takes real time, and if a master is on BetaCam the max playlength of...

Color films are transferred low contrast and appear washed out if you view a 'raw' telecine in order to maximize the available information to work with while making a Color-Timed-Master (CTM). It is from the CTM that home video releases typically come from. A CTM is also a lot of overhead...

And John Ford enters the archive collection with his hard to find 1932 film, Flesh, a wrestling picture with Wallace Beery.

that depends, if TCM does not request a tape of the new master that they can digitize into their programming server to replace the old version then it won't be the new remaster.

I'm going to guess that WB pays the outside company a flat fee per title that's fairly low. other costs, if there is no new telecine, are fairly small, they can probably get thirty titles a month through just two QC PAs being paid about $15/hour (if that). In terms of watching down tapes/check...