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Demand for Blu-ray is there. Perhaps not as great or immediate as the demand for DVD after VHS was (thanks to great backwards compatibility), but at least every

Demand for Blu-ray is there. Perhaps not as great or immediate as the demand for DVD after VHS was (thanks to great backwards compatibility), but at least everyone I know or have met has switched to Blu-ray for their new movie buys. If there's any repression in the movie market, I would blame prices/multi-format bundling. I don't want to buy a six-version pack with two different digital versions, a Blu-ray copy, a DVD copy, a 4:3 DVD copy, and a VHS copy for $40. I want ONE DISC, Blu-ray, for $8-10

wernercd 13y ago
Name a bundle that included BR, DVD and... Widescreen/4:3 copies? Much less VHS? I'll pay a couple extra dollars for the BR + DVD bundles (Although, all my stuff plays BR these days)... I think it's fairly standard to get Widescreen these days as well. I don't remember any recent 4:3 releases for newer titles. The main issue I have is "release day" discounts of $~10-15... followed by months of $~20-25. I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  I was mildly exaggerating, but I mean stuff like this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTSDDVO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TO0N2MFVR7LV&coliid=I2HH5BUT7XKQR9 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTSDDVO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00867GHS8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TO0N2MFVR7LV&coliid=I1FWD427HL83LU http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00867GHS8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl... I don't mind the 2-disc BR/DVD bundles, I just wish I had the option to buy a 1-disc BR instead. It gets even harder when you want a 1-disc 3D BR.
  - hga 13y ago
    What these bundles are telling us---and they're fairly common in US market anime---is that the price of pressing a DVD is so cheap it's better to make one SKU with both. Probably also encourages people to buy a Blu-Ray player as well if they still haven't.
    - sliverstorm 13y ago
      And that's fine, but the bundle seems to be used to justify higher prices. "Oh, well it would be $10, but you get both a Blu-ray and a DVD, so we have to charge you $20"
      - hga 13y ago
        Bleah. I haven't noticed that in the US anime market, but prices are all over the map as companies seek better/sustainable business models. Anime suffered from the general decline in DVD sales, and the decrease in retail outlets, like The Musicland Group (Musicland, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, On Cue, and Media Play superstores) going poof after Best Buy bought them.
- grkvlt 13y ago
  > I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again. This tells you the item was not a "must have" then, or you would have bought it already, rather than waiting...
  - wernercd 13y ago
    Well to be honest, no Movie is a "Must Have"... for me at least. But a "I REALLY want that to sit on my shelf and hold up all the dust" is only worth so much.
arbitrage 13y ago
you're cherry picking your sample set, here. of course it makes more sense that people who still buy movies will have a significant percentage who adopted blu-ray. personally, i know not one single person who still buys physical video discs anymore. personally, i can say that demand for blu-ray is non-existant. what would be useful, here, would be some sort of data that compares usage/adoption rates for units of time after a formats release. how many people are using blu-ray X years after it became available, compared to DVD, etc. i would expect it to not be as popular as DVD or VHS before it, but expectations and anecdata aren't terribly useful.

wernercd 13y ago

Name a bundle that included BR, DVD and... Widescreen/4:3 copies? Much less VHS? I'll pay a couple extra dollars for the BR + DVD bundles (Although, all my stuff plays BR these days)... I think it's fairly standard to get Widescreen these days as well. I don't remember any recent 4:3 releases for newer titles. The main issue I have is "release day" discounts of $~10-15... followed by months of $~20-25. I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again.

sliverstorm 13y ago
I was mildly exaggerating, but I mean stuff like this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTSDDVO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TO0N2MFVR7LV&coliid=I2HH5BUT7XKQR9 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTSDDVO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00867GHS8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TO0N2MFVR7LV&coliid=I1FWD427HL83LU http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00867GHS8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl... I don't mind the 2-disc BR/DVD bundles, I just wish I had the option to buy a 1-disc BR instead. It gets even harder when you want a 1-disc 3D BR.
- hga 13y ago
  What these bundles are telling us---and they're fairly common in US market anime---is that the price of pressing a DVD is so cheap it's better to make one SKU with both. Probably also encourages people to buy a Blu-Ray player as well if they still haven't.
  - sliverstorm 13y ago
    And that's fine, but the bundle seems to be used to justify higher prices. "Oh, well it would be $10, but you get both a Blu-ray and a DVD, so we have to charge you $20"
    - hga 13y ago
      Bleah. I haven't noticed that in the US anime market, but prices are all over the map as companies seek better/sustainable business models. Anime suffered from the general decline in DVD sales, and the decrease in retail outlets, like The Musicland Group (Musicland, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, On Cue, and Media Play superstores) going poof after Best Buy bought them.
grkvlt 13y ago
> I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again. This tells you the item was not a "must have" then, or you would have bought it already, rather than waiting...
- wernercd 13y ago
  Well to be honest, no Movie is a "Must Have"... for me at least. But a "I REALLY want that to sit on my shelf and hold up all the dust" is only worth so much.

arbitrage 13y ago

you're cherry picking your sample set, here. of course it makes more sense that people who still buy movies will have a significant percentage who adopted blu-ray. personally, i know not one single person who still buys physical video discs anymore. personally, i can say that demand for blu-ray is non-existant. what would be useful, here, would be some sort of data that compares usage/adoption rates for units of time after a formats release. how many people are using blu-ray X years after it became available, compared to DVD, etc. i would expect it to not be as popular as DVD or VHS before it, but expectations and anecdata aren't terribly useful.