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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bozster @ Nov 17th 2008 1:29AM
I'm sad to say but you offer no real analysis nor argument but ignorantly dismiss things. This is what mostly ticks me about blu-ray fans.
First of all.. do you have any idea how much it costs Criterion to remaster the discs to high-definition? Of course it's about money and sales. If they can't recover and make good money they will not release them.. simple as that.. so far except for high-profile PS3 owning audience movies who simply don't buy anything or barely anything from "real" movies that are similar to the range of movies Criterion sells. Criterion is not selling Iron Man or Batman.. they sell niche audience movies and selling to a niche from a niche market is highly unprofitable. I don't see why that's so hard for everyone to see.
But let's say that they have them done but are waiting to see how holiday player sales go, the problems they are mostly having is Profile and features related. Unfortunately Blu-Ray has serious issue because of things just not working on all players (I've witnessed it too many times and many other people who own a BD player I know have too) and Criterion is most likely having QA issues.
It's probably tough enough selling to a highly niche audience among the niche format, having returns of re-distribution of titles is a cost they simply don't want to have.
Do you understand that even Iron-Man's number are just a drop in the sea for 1 title when compared to DVDs.
It's not that hard to understand, all you need to do is look at things objectively and read a little about how things work and how much they cost.