I see some steals right now on discs, like some of Target's $10 ones. Most of them have various technical deficiencies (Transporter: MPEG-2 video, Swordfish: lossy audio) that would likely be fixed if a new version were to be released. With a coupon I could get either for $4.99+tax, delightfully cheap, but if they're going to double-dip I'd want to wait.

well, they won't announce the double dip until after you pick up the old one.... so why don't you hurry up so the rest of us can benefit.

Although you can never count out a good double-dip, I doubt Swordfish and Transporter are high on the list of potential double-dips. It's more likely the prices have been slashed on C-tier titles like that in order to encourage more people to buy into the format. Plenty of movies that floated around on the $5/10 racks at Wal-Mart during the early days of DVD have still never gotten a double-dip, even if they needed one (Arachnophobia, The Cable Guy, Frantic, Spies Like Us, Nothing But Trouble, etc.)

On occasion the answer is yes. The old versions of T2 [June 27, 2006] and Stargate [August 29, 2006] were among the first bargain priced Blu-ray Discs and were followed by better versions. It was no surprise.

But for most of the bargain-priced BDs, I think that the studios are just trying to unload unsold inventory and that double-dips are unlikely.