Universal and Weinstein have sharply lowered MSRP on most (all?) HD DVD titles recently.

I agree that it is time to see more MSRP reductions on older titles.

Don't bait dude... You know damned well it because of the closeouts.

fitprod

I could be way off but didn't Universal drop the MSRP on some of their early releases like a year ago?

I have mixed feelings about these digital copies. For one thing, I almost never watch movies on my iPod. The only time I watch movies is when I output the video to a TV and use the iPod as a portable movie player. When I do that, I prefer to have video that's a much higher quality than iTunes usually provides.

So, I like the fact that studios are not wasting disc space (especially on DVD releases) on the digital copy. However, I worry that the compression rate used for such releases from iTunes will make those releases uninteresting to me.

Same here. I won't be playing the double-dip game much for BD. If something like Fantastic Four gets re-issued as a BD Live title and includes the extended cut, I will probably get that. Plus, the original is a BD-25 with MPEG 2 encoding. I'm not sure Fox would be so willing to spend extra money to do another encode so soon into the format. They may just add BD Live features only.

A little... But on March 4th they dropped everything to $14.99 and $19.99 (Combos), in response to Toshiba killing the format.

fitprod

I'm still waiting for that pricing structure to hit us here in Canada. Only Paramount titles have been on sale so far, and in the meantime retailers are sending back titles to the distributor a few at a time.

No argument there.

The price drop last year would then make Universal the first studio to have dropped the MSRP of an HDM release.

Advantage, HD DVD!

Wait . . .

just to clarify, on March 4th they dropped MSRP on catalog titles to $19.99 and on combos to $29.99.

Doh... That was the MAP I was thinking...

fitprod

I did right after I posted, and I think I'll stay away, far away!

I like the main site for information about BD, but it seems like people in those forums only buy because it's on Blu-ray, not because of the actual movie. I like BD and I support it, but I'm not going to be saying "HD DVD Sux" ( ) anytime soon. Which ever HD disc format one the war was the format I was going to get into up. It didn't matter if it was HD DVD or Blu-ray (I was pulling for HD DVD a bit because the supporters didn't bash BD too no end).

With regard to the MSRP lowering that Matome mentioned, Fox seems to be using a different strategy for catalog titles than the other studios: High price on release then lower it by $10 later. Similar to what many studios seem to do with DVDs. I checked a bunch of BD prices and the vast majority of the ones lowered were Fox. For example:

Fantastic Four (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Behind Enemy Lines (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Speed (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Kiss of the Dragon (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Rising Sun (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
The Usual Suspects (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Sentinel (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Planet of the Apes (2001) (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98
Entrapment (Fox): $39.98 > $29.98

And there are many others. I did find two Sony titles that seem to have been lowered:

Curse of the Golden Flower (Sony): $38.95 > $28.95
Secret Window (Sony): $38.95 > $28.95

And a WB title:

Superman Returns (WB): $39.99 > $34.99
(But this just reflects Warner Bros. lowering their prices in general for new releases awhile back.)

I couldn't spot any Disney or Lionsgate MSRPs that have been lowered thus far.

FWIW.

Fox just lowered their prices to an acceptable pricing range.

don't let a few posts dissuade you. There are many fine threads and fine contributors. Also, many respected Insiders post there. They take feedback seriously and many positives have happened because of posts there (such as reducing the number of stickers attached to a BD, thumbnail images when launching a BD from the PS3, etc.)...

I guess some people are going to have to eat crow because the BOGO has returned: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....09#post8554109

At Target on 3/16 -3/22

As we're all trying to move forward amicably, I don't think anyone is going to have to eat crow, and we shouldn't have to deal with those kind of comments.

HD Digest gave I am Legend 5/5 for audio/video. Too bad the hour long documentary isn't in HD. Aside from an inconsistent support of lossless audio, the other thing that bothers me about new WB titles is the lack of support for all HD extras.

Do I dare say this could be the first WB BD (not counting Shoot 'Em Up from NL) to optimize for Blu-Ray? Very much looking forward to this disc - I missed the film in theaters.

To be fair, since the titles are from multiple studios (Disney, LG, Fox and Sony), I'm guessing this is a Target-driven sale and not something coming from the BDA or studios. Actually I think that's even better than be confined to one studio's selections for a BOGO.

Would be nice if the selection was a little larger.

There's also Sales Tax and no Amazon Visa Discount or HD Discount

Geez, do you want a ham sandwich too?

Not only did I post this a few days ago in the appropriate thread, but several posts were removed for doing the same exact thing you are doing, baiting.

As noted this is a Target driven sale as there are titles present from every Blu-ray studio (Disney, Fox, Sony, Warner, Lionsgate). This is not a studio specific sale.

Which is pretty odd for Warner as they have been pretty good about HD features on day and date releases. It does not look like I will be getting my screener copy this week so I will be purchasing the Blu-ray version since it has the 2 extra features.

Are you reviewing somewhere now? I haven't seen you mention screeners before.

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