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Posted by elrous0 on 07/31/07 17:42
On Jul 30, 5:39 pm, Doug Jacobs <djac...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> I just heard that this November Paramount is going to be re-releasing the
> first season of the original Star Trek series remastered in HD for the
> low-low price of $217.99:
>
> http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Paramount/Disc_Announcements/P...
>
> Are they crazy? I know that HD is supposed to be 6x the resolution of
> standard DVD, but 6x the price as well?!
Paramount has ALWAYS been notorious for overpriced and underfeatured
home video releases, going back to the Laserdisc/VHS days.
When they first came to LD, they offered only crappy pan&scan releases
with no features and big price tags.
When they first came to DVD (and they were one of the last studios to
embrace DVD), they did the same thing. Their DVD's were $5 more than
most other studios, and they offered NO extras (early Paramount
releases had to list things like "interactive menus" as extras). Once
they did started adding extras, they would slap on a simple commentary
track on a DVD, label it a "Special Edition" and charge you yet
another $5 extra. Seeing "Paramount" on a film was as bad for us DVD-
philes as seeing "Sony DADC" on a LD (hello laser rot).
Back in the day, the big debate about Paramount Home Video was whether
they ENCOURAGED their employees to smoke crack or whether they were
doing it in secret. I guess the old glass pipe is still around over
there.
-Eric
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