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Posted by The Great Attractor on 05/20/07 08:59
On Sat, 19 May 2007 18:51:31 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>Phisherman wrote:
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>
>>>You're still trying to find BBC/PBS/Discovery documentaries from a
>>>brick-and-mortar?:
>>>
>>>http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Planet_Earth_The_Complete_Collection/70065292
>>
>> 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
I think you guys' problem is inability to search properly.
Oh, and it IS a HUGE BBC/Warner release.
http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/338629
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