PopcornTreeCt

I wasn't going to get this anyway... but it's really disappointing hearing that about the PQ. I swear it's like Warner does this stuff on purpose. It's one thing to crap up DVD releases so people will buy the Blu-ray but to crap the theatrical releases to make the extended ones look better... not cool.

RocShemp

You're of course assuming they won't botch the extended cut release as well.

I don't see malicious intent here. Just incompetence.

Commander Dan

Does anyone know when or even if we will see the extended editions on Blu-ray?

milo bloom

I seem to recall some talk of cross promotion with the upcoming The Hobbit film.

Ghostbuster

I was considering picking up this set during a sale, but since reviews of the first film's picture quality are negative, I'll just wait for the extended edition set. Hopefully the picture quality of Fellowship will be improved.

jackson walker

I was in my local B.J.'s this morning, and this was already on the shelves for sale.

Mr. Cinema

Anyone else seeing the same thing lately when ordering on Saturday?

Amazon's release day delivery guarantee has been working great for me since they started it a few months ago. As long as I met the deadline of the pre-order, I always got everything on Tuesday. However, that's not the case anymore. I could even order on Monday morning, choose 2-day release day delivery, and I'd still get everything the next day. I took these screen shots this morning for the LOTR listing. I'm not buying it, but wanted to show everyone what I'm seeing and was wondering if others are seeing this as well. The same thing happened to me on Sherlock Holmes. I got the title on Wednesday, even though I ordered it the Saturday before, which, according to Amazon's listing, was in plenty of time to get it on Tuesday.

I know it's just a 1 day difference, but if they're giving release day delivery, I better get it on release day.

Check this out:





Huh?

Mr. Cinema

are you going to tell us the price?

kk725

I don't know if it's out on shelves at my club, but the list price is $69.99.

mdc3000

The instore US price has got to be lower than I'm seeing on here... we never get good deals in Canada and this is will be selling everywhere locally for $49.99.

iNCREDiPiNOY

Of course Canada get the good deal.

jackson walker

Sorry. $69.99 was the price.

Matthew Chmiel

No. It's not. Especially for a catalog title.

My average cost per title in 2010 is $10.76 and I've purchased 50 titles (47 being individual films, 3 being box sets).

The highest priced box set I paid for was the Planet of the Apes: 40th Anniversary Collection which was $45. Divide that by five films in the set and we're at $9 per film. Each disc filled with bonus features, some exclusive to the Blu-ray set.

The highest priced single title I paid for is a tie between Black Dynamite and Ninja Assassin for $25 because I was simply impatient and needed them now.

I'm fine with my extended edition DVD sets of the trilogy and I wouldn't double-dip until I can score the extended edition Blu-rays, with ALL of its bonus material, for under $50.

fumanstan

I ordered Sherlock Holmes last Saturday and managed to get it release day.

fumanstan

$20 per movie is "reasonable" as far as being priced the same as every other catalog title that's been released lately. That's pretty standard across the board, give or take a couple bucks. I think that's all that people are saying.

Obviously bargain hunters that routinely count their averages won't buy it at that price, but what other brand new catalog release have had pricing under $15?

MoviePage

Looks like what you're seeing there isn't their "guaranteed Release Date Delivery" option. It's more of an "order this now and we estimate it should arrive on release day" thing. Here's what the guaranteed delivery option looks like (from another item listing, obviously):

lizard

Some Disney titles, such as Snow White for $10 at Amazon, come to mind. But you are correct for the most part. Even with catalog releases one usually has to wait for a while to get a decent deal.


Edit: The new catalog release, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), is just $11.99 for a two disc BD/DVD set at Amazon. Perhaps we will see more reasonable priced catalog releases.

Willh51

I contacted Amazon about this. I ordered Sherlock Holmes with "release date delivery" and got it Thursday. They gave some BS reason but I think that sometimes it just doesn't work.

Teremei

Well my local Fry's has it for $59.** so I'll probably pick it up there. Best buy is selling it for $74.** and you can forget it at that price. $60 tops was my margin and I'll head toward Fry's in the morning.

E Unit

Best Buy also has the trilogy for the same price as Fry's, $59.99. The Best Buy Collectors edition with the junk included is $74.**.

Teremei

Ah I see so she looked at the wrong one, ok. Well I have to go to Fry's anyway but thanks for clearing that up.

DVD Polizei

And how many years ago did we all buy these LOTR EE on DVD for ~$25.

Snowmaker

So are the 3 Bonus Feature DVDs the same ones that came with the original DVDs?

Yavin

I recall reading that they are essentially the same bonus features discs, except that the video game previews/trailers have been replaced with newer-ish video game previews/trailers.

Personally, since I have all 3 TEs on DVD, I would rather they have just done away with the 6 DVDs in the set.

Teremei

yeah it feels like a rip off since I don't care to watch the extras again, and especially not in standard DEF. And 3 extra discs for digital copies? Just give me the 3 movie discs in superb HD quality, and it looks like they couldn't even get that done.

And just by the fact that these do look better than the DVDs, and the audio is deffinatly better. I'm STILL considering getting it. I mean how likely is it they will release another TC with the video done right this time? Should I wait out for that? Because I actually love the TC of the fellowship much better than the EE.