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One of the reasons why "lost footage" from many movies has been recovered is because of collectors who acquired prints of films back when that was illegal. The first time I ever saw The Wizard of Oz in color (well, one reel of it; there wasn't enough time for the whole film) was at the home of a...

I'm not sure that I'd expect that. While I know that some major retailers do carry some boutique label releases (B&N with Criterion and Arrow, for example), I guess I just never expect them to carry them on-line, maybe because I'v rarely seen them in the stores, even back in the day. It's...

The problem with the retailers is not that they aren't carrying enough titles. It's that they aren't carrying enough titles in their brick'n'mortar stories. Best Buy, especially, would be perfectly happy with everyone buying products on-line, and their stores being appliance showplaces only.

I don't think so. At least, not quite. It's obviously been ages since the dawn of home video, but I believe that a lot of the first commercially-available VHS/Beta releases were from small companies releasing titles that were in the Public Domain, or whose provenance wasn't clear. Outfits like...

Yup. When the home video industry started circa 1980, the studios would released some of their films on VHS and Betamax for $80 a pop. Paramount was the first to try "sell-through" pricing a couple of years later, putting out their films on tape for $30-40. When laserdiscs got going, they were...

Yes and no. I live in Bull Moose country. Pretty much every time I go to a Bull Moose store, I bring in a bag full of discs (DVDs I've upgraded to BD or BDs I've upgraded to UHD). It obviously depends on what I'm bringing in, but I find that I almost consistently get an average of $4 per title...

That's actually part of a more general generational change. From what I've been reading, younger people have a lesser desire to own stuff. It seems to be largely driven by a desire to be more flexible about how and where they live. Being anchored by a lot of possessions makes it harder to uproot...

Some weeks back, my local Best Buy had two (double-sided) rack units reasonably full of discs, with a separate (additional) unit for UHDs near the UHD players/TVs. And the "new releases" rack up at the front of the store. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that they were down to one...

More to the point, the Disney executives don't want physical media. After frantically trying to stop home video from ever happening, they (and other studios) discovered it was a cash cow, and went all-in on capitalizing on it. Streaming, however, has become the new cash cow. Instead of allowing...