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Posted by The Great Attractor on 05/20/07 23:12
On Sun, 20 May 2007 22:48:16 GMT, Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:59:50 -0700, The Great Attractor
><SuperM@ssiveBlackHoleAtTheCenterOfTheMilkyWayGalaxy.org> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 May 2007 18:51:31 -0400, Derek Janssen
>><ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>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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>
>The 11 Blockbuster stores closest to me do not carry it. At this
>point I guess I can wait, subscribe to Netflix and wait, or $70 to buy
>it. Thanks for the link.
Well, it's $60 for the regular DVD version at Fry's. At Amazon, it is
$53.99.
The HD DVD version is $70 typically, but I have seen it as low as
$63.99. At Amazon, it is $66.99.
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