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Posted by Derek Janssen on 05/19/07 22:51
Phisherman wrote:
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>>>I checked all the local rental stores and none have "Planet Earth,"
>>>nor have any of them heard of it. Has anyone rented this documentary
>>>from a rental store?
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>>You're still trying to find BBC/PBS/Discovery documentaries from a
>>brick-and-mortar?:
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>>http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Planet_Earth_The_Complete_Collection/70065292
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> So, stores like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster don't find it
> profitable to carry Planet Earth, DIYs, or instructional DVDs? But,
> they do carry 10+ copies of "Christmas with the Kranks."
Make it 20+ and "Underworld: Evolution", and you've got Blockbuster. :)
Don't know whether they consider it "profitable", but unless the
documentary's a major Warner/BBC release with a lot of flashy studio
push, the chain rentals don't go for the "library" image of customers
seeking out viewable information/history--
HollyBlock's first priority is keeping their industry-component image
for studios to depend on as the Cineplex, Part 2 for titles to make back
their post-theater income at some accountant's twelve-week mark after
release, and losing a PBS fan out the door they don't see as a major impact.
Derek Janssen (with Netflix, OTOH, you can take sixteen hours of Ken
Burns and David Attenborough at your own pace)
ejanss@comcast.net
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