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Fox to cut prices on Blu-ray catalog
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article published on 13 March, 2008
Fox has announced that it will be the first major studio to have extensive price cuts on its HD movie catalog by discounting 22 of its best selling Blu-ray titles.
The price cut, which began yesterday, will see those 22 select films drop in MSRP by $10 USD each from $39.98 to $29.98 USD. However, the titles have been available for some time now on Amazon and other retailers for much ... [ read the full article ]
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13. March 2008 @ 18:06 |
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But what about new releases?
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13. March 2008 @ 18:31 |
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Good for you. Here blu-ray titles cost $45-$55 a pop.
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13. March 2008 @ 19:25 |
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@arcanix
Wow... if you want to watch bd movies you prob should buy slysofts anydvd with hd option. if i understood corretly it should remove region code and need to buy hdcp devices. It cost like 79€ but you should get on your own quite fast.
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13. March 2008 @ 19:26 |
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Originally posted by arcanix:
Good for you. Here blu-ray titles cost $45-$55 a pop.
Sounds like they are still greedy.
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13. March 2008 @ 19:34 |
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Roll up, roll up, get your over-priced DRM'd to the hilt BD+ Blu-ray BS here, suckers.
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13. March 2008 @ 19:40 |
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Good to see that there is a price cut.I guess it put to rest all the BS & lies about prices going up.
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13. March 2008 @ 19:50 |
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$30 for your BD+ movies, eh nextgen.
What a bargain
(and note the days of BOGOs and $15 - $20 Blu-ray movies are long over).
But still you rush in to cheer them on.
LMAO.
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juankerr
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13. March 2008 @ 20:50 |
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713tex
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13. March 2008 @ 21:16 |
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Those are really old movies.
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13. March 2008 @ 21:28 |
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Until I see them for $5.99 in a discount bin at walmart, I don't see any shift to high-def. New technology doesn't appeal to the masses until it reaches a price close to the technology it replaced. At a time when our economy's going into a recession (in the US for now) good luck getting people to start jumping for $30 dollar movies. If Sony wants to take on dvd they will have to make their product a necessity or cheap. Oh ya, before I hear people comparing the price to HD-DVD, I have to say thats not the game being played anymore. One format succeeded and the only reason we all argued about the whole format war is because we all want to see Hi-def become mainstream. Hopefully Sony play their cards right to make that happen.
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13. March 2008 @ 21:34 |
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But what about new releases?
with time my dear friend...with time...oh and torrents:)
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13. March 2008 @ 21:47 |
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$30 for your BD+ movies, eh nextgen.
What a bargain
(and note the days of BOGOs and $15 - $20 Blu-ray movies are long over).
But still you rush in to cheer them on.
LMAO.
Yeah, if prices stay as high as they are $ony will end up loosing the real format war, the one against DVD.
$ony played their cards right against HD DVD but I really wanted to see how well either format competed against DVD once the dust from their skirmish cleared.
Peace
EDITED by Pop_Smith: Makes a bit more sense now.
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xblade132
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13. March 2008 @ 21:56 |
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The price of today's technology is rather expensive, meaning expensive products. So I don't really understand all the constant complaining and whining about how everything is so expensive, technology wise.
Everybody wants a to make a profit, not lose money.
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13. March 2008 @ 22:20 |
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Originally posted by juankerr:
The titles mentioned in the news item are available from amazon from $14.49 and $19.95 each.
Hey that can't be right.
I thought people were saying that prices were going to GO UP.
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13. March 2008 @ 23:02 |
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Everybody wants a to make a profit, not lose money.
Yea they want to make money. But at 200%,300%,400% profit what kind of world are we coming too? Where corporations and the fat cat executives get even fatter.
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13. March 2008 @ 23:23 |
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Originally posted by hughjars:
Roll up, roll up, get your over-priced DRM'd to the hilt BD+ Blu-ray BS here, suckers.
Gotta get used to it, hughjars. It's too late. No turning back now. It's here to stay, warts-&-all.
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jove
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13. March 2008 @ 23:24 |
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Originally posted by hughjars:
Roll up, roll up, get your over-priced DRM'd to the hilt BD+ Blu-ray BS here, suckers.
I wonder if 5 years from now you'll still be at it
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A_Klingon
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13. March 2008 @ 23:26 |
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Originally posted by juankerr:
No one pays MSRP anymore.
The titles mentioned in the news item are available from amazon from $14.49 and $19.95 each.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/F...og/1563
Only trouble is, a lot of people don't want to wait for mail order when they can get it NOW at their local retailer, even if it does cost a bundle more.
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13. March 2008 @ 23:35 |
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Remember how much regular DVD was when it first came out? And now look at it. Its only a matter of time.
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jove
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13. March 2008 @ 23:37 |
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Originally posted by samshizze:
Remember how much regular DVD was when it first came out? And now look at it. Its only a matter of time.
dont let fanatics hear you because they'll hate you. with a passion.
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14. March 2008 @ 01:21 |
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You guys are all retarded if you think cheaper is crap, no matter what the situation is.
You complain about $30, but how's $40 sound, eh?
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14. March 2008 @ 07:18 |
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Anyone paying $15 to $20 for a Blu ray movie (with very rare exceptions) is simply wasting their money. Sign up with Netflix and get 3 at a time for $17 a month (or less for 2 at a time or 1 at a time). Precious few movies are worth watching more than once, anyway.
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nopcbs
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14. March 2008 @ 07:18 |
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Anyone paying $15 to $20 for a Blu ray movie (with very rare exceptions) is simply wasting their money. Sign up with Netflix and get 3 at a time for $17 a month (or less for 2 at a time or 1 at a time). Precious few movies are worth watching more than once, anyway.
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14. March 2008 @ 08:44 |
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All the movies on that list of lowered prices, i either already own on SD DVD or just plain don't want in the first place.
Thanks much FOX.
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14. March 2008 @ 09:16 |
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Originally posted by A_Klingon:
Gotta get used to it, hughjars. It's too late. No turning back now.
- I agree with that, they will undoubtedly try to act as they intended all along, recovering the lost SD DVD margins with their higher margin Blu-rays.
Originally posted by A_Klingon:
It's here to stay, warts-&-all.
- .....and this is the bit I don't agree with.
Oh they'll push it mightily for sure, but I really do not see it convincing the mass-market at all.
Too many people do not think the premium is worth it compared to upscaled SD DVD
(and if that new Super Upconversion tech lives up to it's promises of low cost and high quality then that may well be the next big thing as it works so well with 100% SD DVD - that kind of appeal to everyone;'s existing SD DVD collection is not going to be over-looked lightly if it comes in as a low cost technology performing as well as it promises -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1qxa1zv5uI&feature=related
......and you can easily tell the Blu-ray gang are seriously scared sh!teless about this one as they have flooded the net with disinformation about it already for anyone trying to Google the subject).
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