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Posted by Derek Janssen on 05/20/07 23:38
The Great Attractor wrote:
> 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:
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>>>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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>>
>>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.
(Okay, Prong, you know how to use DVDPricesearch and Google. THANK you,
Mr. Spock--
It's certainly a less irritating at auto parrot-response one-up default
gimmick than the old "I'm a purer tech-geek than you, because I own old
*classic* hardware!" one we were beating there for a while, but trust
us, we're all pretty quick on the uptake after two or three posts.)
Derek Janssen (don't be afraid, the thread will still survive if you
turn your back for five minutes)
ejanss@comcast.net
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