I just placed my order. What a great deal!Originally Posted by Keith Paynter )
I just placed my order. What a great deal!Originally Posted by Keith Paynter )
Give them a few days. I've had several pre-ordered items from Amazon just this year that had last-minute price drops, and they've never failed to come back within 2 days after shipping and issue a credit. No prompting from me necessary.Haven't received anything yet that they credited me the difference in the price drop.
Originally Posted by Craig S
Give them a few days. I've had several pre-ordered items from Amazon just this year that had last-minute price drops, and they've never failed to come back within 2 days after shipping and issue a credit. No prompting from me necessary.
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PS: I wasn't gonna post about my own purchase here, but since everyone just keeps talking about that, I figured I might as well now. Hope RAH (and some others) are not too bothered by all the gushing about a good deal (vs about the film itself)...
When I told my wife about it (and yesterday's Gold Box $18.99 price to boot), she hypothesized that maybe it's precisely the less appealing cover that's causing the price cut for one and not the other.
If more Blu-rays came out of the gate at these prices, standard def DVD would be subsumed in short order, no pun intended.
This makes me wonder what is the source for this restoration? It is a restoration isn't it? If it's the original cells, then they'd have to run them through the multi-plane again, wouldn't they? If film, how did they get around the softness of lack of definition in Technicolor?Originally Posted by Robert Harris
What has exited the other side is something that we have never seen before. But neither had Mr. Disney and those that created the film. Technicolor in 1937 was notoriously soft and lacking in definition and detail. And I would presume because of that, that there is little in Snow White. Facial details are nil. Outlines rule. The famous Disney "everything in the frame is moving at the same time" isn't there. While the central focus of the frame has movement (2 frames per move, ie 12 different frames per second) the backgrounds and those elements at the sides, stay frozen for all time.
The multi-plane camera, which was totally new, is used to beautiful effect.
My walmart took the online coupon.Originally Posted by RolandL
I went to Walmart and the price was $19.86 but they do not accept online coupons. BestBuy would match Walmart price but not the coupon too. With coupon is was $14.99 plus tax. I didn't know about the Amazon reduction.
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To the contrary. I purchased a second copy on Amazon in Blu-ray packaging, and will gift my first disc. If more Blu-rays came out of the gate at these prices, standard def DVD would be subsumed in short order, no pun intended.
RAH [/QUOTE]Thanks, RAH. Good to hear you too personally benefited from the recent discounts. And yeah, definitely agree about the pricing strategy here -- and actually, seems like Disney has been fairly active in exploring ways to do that for some time now, eg. occasional $10 print-your-own coupons for certain day-and-date new releases, BD+DVD combo packs in some cases, $10 upgrade rebates on certain relatively popular catalog titles that seem to even get Paramount to follow suit to some extent.
[QUOTE]Originally Posted by [b]Bill Buklis[/b] [url=/forum/thread/293339/a-few-words-about-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-in-blu-ray/30#post_3614285]
Originally Posted by TravisR
^ Amazon and the other retailers all get $10 back from Disney for those coupons. Nothing more than a guess but I think at $20, they're probably making a small profit on each copy.
FWIW, for some reason, I mistakenly thought the Monsters vs Aliens BD also came w/ the DVD -- and ordered it alongside the Snow White BD. Had I realized it was just the BD, I would've probably debated on the purchase some more and *possibly* either wait for a better price or just get the DVD for less. I guess I probably coulda canceled that portion of the order (and maybe still qualify for free shipping from Amazon), but decided I'd just stick w/ it this time since that title seems worthwhile enough to own on BD sans the DVD -- and my daughter really wants it (on whatever format)...