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Posted by One-Shot Scot on 10/06/05 16:12
In article <bPidnZnPLahoQd7eRVn-tg@comcast.com>,
"One-Shot Scot" <SonOf@Bitch.com> wrote:
> I can only hope that the movie industry will not resort to releasing
> exclusive Hi-Definition DVD titles in an attempt to force consumers into
> changing formats. They will only be cutting their own throats if they try
> this. We can look back at the DIVX fiasco to see how such an arm-twisting
> strategy turned out.
<<This seems unlikely. Look at how they have continued to support the
archaic 'dead in the water' VHS format all through out the DVD boom. In
point of fact, Star Wars Episode III is the first MAJOR release from a
studio to not see a VHS release of any sort, but this is happening in late
2005; 8 years after the launch of DVD and after the fact that 9 out of
every 10 people already own a DVD player (most of them willingly so, not
because they were forced). Those poor few losers who are STILL(!) VHSing it
due to sheer ignorance and technophobia have now become completely
insignificant, so much so that Fox and other Hollywood giants can now
safely (as if it wasn't safe to do so 3 or even 4 years ago... doh!)
release even the biggest movies exclusively to DVD.>>
<<Then again, the mindset in Hollywood has now become "Suck the consumer of
every last penny by repeatedly releasing the same movies over and over
again." The way they all jumped on the UMD/PSP movie thing as quickly as
humanly possible when there's hardly even a market for movies on the format
makes me sick to my stomach. So who knows, maybe they will eventually try to
force us to upgrade by pulling that sort of stunt... I wouldn't put
anything past them anymore.>>
Speaking of sucking the consumer dry, I find it interesting that _Star Wars
Episode III_ is not going to be available on any dead video formats. It is
unlike George Lucas to do anything so rational, because in April of 2000 he
released _Star Wars Episode I_ on Japanese LaserDisc -- but the DVD did not
come out until October 2001. (Of course, this movie was available on VHS.)
If I recall correctly, the imported Japanese LaserDisc was available in the
US for around $125, but George Lucas later made it available on his Star
Wars website for a modest $80.
And didn't George Lucas also make the undefiled versions of _Star Wars_
Episodes IV, V, and VI available only on VHS and LaserDisc?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/laserdisc
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