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Old 07-14-08, 01:40 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
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
So if they only sell 500 copies of El Norte, Criterion would be happy and continue to release Blu-rays? They are a business and they are here to make money, not provide the best presentation to a film that garners no sales and no revenue. That's why I think they should have come out of the gate with a few more of their more well known titles (Wes Anderson films for example) before they went completely unknown. But I'm done. Were not going to agree so this is useless.
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