The boutique Blu-ray market has become fairly well served in the last five years. I suspect this may partially be because of the pandemic, but it seems to be su

The boutique Blu-ray market has become fairly well served in the last five years. I suspect this may partially be because of the pandemic, but it seems to be sustaining. Most people have heard of Criterion and of course they’re still going strong. But there are easily a dozen labels of various sizes dedicated to physical media these days. Arrow is one. Vinegar Syndrome tends to focus on more exploitative titles plus they act as distributor for many smaller labels. Severin does a lot of horror. The UK’s Radiance Video is carving out an interesting niche in more obscure genre offerings. Kino Lorber has a lot of classics. And so on, and so on. I don’t know the financials behind this but a lot of the print runs seem to be around 3K copies and many of these labels have sustained for a few years now. Radiance and Vinegar Syndrome both have subscription programs which probably help with predictability. Some people buy these for the movies, some because they’re collectors, and some for both reasons. https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/blu-ray-labels-film-history-physical-media-1234950671/ https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/blu-ray-labels-film... is a decent article on all of this.