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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Most typical consumers know nothing about Criterion. You could walk up to random people at Best Buy in the DVD aisle and ask them to name 3 Criterion titles and I could almost guarantee they would not know what you were talking about. Now, ask them to name the villains in Spider-Man and boom, you would get a response. The typical consumer is the one that wonders why they can't get Bourne Identity or Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray. They don't care about El Norte or any of the announced titles. Now, if Criterion manages to get the rights back to Armageddon...than yeah, they might care.
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I already addressed your argument. Here it is again--Criterion are not concerned with
most typical consumers, whatever that is meant to characterize. If they were they would have adjusted their pricing scheme accordingly when SDVD was at its peak. They did not.
Criterion are concerned with providing (arguably) the best possible presentation for the films they either own or have licensing rights for through Janus/second parties, as well as the most informative extras to supplant it.
Hence your analogy is irrelevant.
Pro-B