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Posted by Black Locust on 06/20/06 03:54
In article <r9l149yxqupz$.l7kcrj0l4knj$.dlg@40tude.net>,
"Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote:
> To be fair, with very few exceptions, there were very few older releases
> that hadn't been released on VHS or LD at some point. Had DVD not come
> along, new releases and re-releases would've continued to appear on VHS and
> LD. And failing that, studios would've been restoring and retransfering
> titles for HDTV. That's kinda the dirty secret of DVD: it is mainly
> supplementing what studios would've had to have done for HDTV in any case.
> What the hell are you talking about? Superman Returns isn't even out in
> theaters yet. And the Matrix was available on VHS.
Actually, all 3 Matrix films are/were available on VHS. They may be OOP
now; I'm not sure. Infact, Star Wars Episode 3 was the first MAJOR movie
to not be released on VHS and that was in November of 2005. VHS took
much longer to kill off then it really should have. Only NOW are the big
film studios finally ceasing pre-recorded VHS production completely. So
looking at it that way, will DVD co-exist with one of the HD formats
until something else comes along to replace them both? Seems pretty far
fetched, but that's basically what happened with VHS..
> -Jay
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