Certainly not in the "case" of Zatoichi.
Yet according to the big guys like Warners, there's no profit in catalogue titles so series like the Bowery Boys go to the archives... they should maybe talk to Criterion and find out how to market things.Derrick King said:The ZATOICHI set is a steal and would have cost the same without the DVDs. (A Japanese Blu-ray set of 18 of the Zatoichi films was also announced and it runs about $580 US)
This is Criterion, not Warner or MGM.Adam_S said:I wonder if the DVDs in Tokyo Story are just the Old DVDs repackaged with the new bluray.
Moe Dickstein said:What's the problem? Don't like free stuff?
Even better, donate it to a public library and actually do something nice for other people.Moe Dickstein said:Then throw it in the trash and let the rest of us enjoy a wonderful gift
That doesn't really make sense, no one's going to see the menu except the purchaser and there's probably all of ten people in the world that care if the menu design is new or not on a disc identical to a previous release. But I suppose it could be called half ass, but redoing the disc with no content changes just to get a menu that matches current branding trends seems like a good way to flush some money and labor time down the toilet.Moe Dickstein said:The disc would have new menus that fit the new design.Criterion doesn't half-ass things