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This is absolute big giant elephant in the room! ;) If we think a third party released title on bluray is substandard or absolute shit, we have the absolute right to not buy it at all. This is the big thing than many hardcore enthusiasts and other nerdy/geeky types, do not understand at an...

One can also ask whether Universal's executives even give a damn about this. They don't even have to lift a finger, when it comes to licensing deals. The licensing cash comes in, independent of whether the third party boutique sells any bluray copies or not. Just sit back with their feet on...

(As an aside). Some of us hardcore ethusiast types who are not insiders, completely believe we know how to run a movie company (or giant corporate conglomerate) better than the current C-level suite of executives "fools". ;) :dancing-banana-04:

(On a tangent). Allegedly this is how record companies were run back in the day. For every home run like a Michael Jackson or Guns 'N Roses, they would be subsidizing dozens of other artists/bands on a record company's roster which barely break even (or don't ever recover the costs already...

What is completely unknown, is what the cash flows were in Twilight Time's financial books. Especially when an operation runs into a "cash crunch" (ie. they can't get a loan to cover current and/or upcoming expenses), they would have to raise cash by selling some of their inventory to move (ie...

(At the risk of going further offtopic). Nowadays it appears GE looks more like a bank/financial institution, than an "industrial" or manufacturing company. (Ever since Jack Welch).

Unfortunate side effect of the mass market for dvd/bluray over the past two decades, and how it heavily imprinted such "dump bin" price points on an entire generation of movie collectors. Not surprising really. Back in the laserdisc era, I rarely ever heard any griping about the higher...

Imho one operation which got it right done pat, is Warner Archive. They don't have to deal with the headaches of high volumes of returned unsold inventory, and they sell direct to the customer and select retailers (ie. amazon).

The question is who exactly is doing the "storage" and who is paying for the storage costs directly? An intermediate distributor or any other "middleman" between the movie company and retailer shelves, will have a mind of their own and start making huge objections if there's too much inventory...

IIRC, PBS ?

At this point, I suspect the damage is already done and nothing is going to convince enough people to go back to dvds/blurays, to be worthwhile for the big movie companies. With all the being said, I suspect it is the smaller boutique companies where this might still matter. Companies like...

I suspect the only definitive answer to this, is how exactly are the executive/managerial year-end bonuses calculated in the home video division of various movie companies. ;)

(On a huge counter-intuitive tangent). I use these "price points" in a complete different context. Basically if something doesn't dip into dump bin prices, then I don't purchase it. This is a way of severely restricting my extreme OCD "compulsive completionist collecting" mindset in regard to...

(On a tangent). From what I've read about the music business of yesteryear, this sounds almost identical to how record company executives use to think back in the day. First week sales of a new cd album was EVERYTHING !!! For a big release such as a then-new album by Michael Jackson, Guns 'N...

Most likely this is indeed the case. As a reflection of this nowadays, every other new rookie show is released dvd-mod from the start or is not released at all. The way I see it, a recent season 1 dvd-mod set being released is a sign of the movie company having very lukewarm expectations for...