Studios Releasing DVD But No Blu-ray?
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And how do you know this? You're making a lot of generalizations and assumptions. Who the heck still owns a 4:3, NTSC television in 2019? And even if you don't have cable and just use an antenna in 2019, all major networks transmit their signals in High Definition.
I've had DirecTV since 2003 and you don't pay anything extra for an HD signal, so your SD assumption makes no sense. Unless you're still stuck with a shitty 4:3 SD TV. Then yeah you can use the option for SD. But if you have an HDTV, which most in America have now, why would you?
I do agree that most of the Walmart crowd don't look for Blu-Rays for impulse movie buys.
I've had DirecTV since 2003 and you don't pay anything extra for an HD signal, so your SD assumption makes no sense. Unless you're still stuck with a shitty 4:3 SD TV. Then yeah you can use the option for SD. But if you have an HDTV, which most in America have now, why would you?
I do agree that most of the Walmart crowd don't look for Blu-Rays for impulse movie buys.
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Anyway, Coral said:
many people who have 1080p TVs are still getting SD content from satellite and cable
Who the heck still owns a 4:3, NTSC television in 2019?
And even if you don't have cable and just use an antenna in 2019, all major networks transmit their signals in High Definition.
I think most people just don't know (or care) if a channel is available in HD or not, especially OTA.
And up in Canada, it's even less reliable. Hell, my mother has a cable box, but can't get an HD signal out of it at all; only SD. She doesn't care, despite owning an HDTV. I'm not saying she's the norm, or even part of some kind of silent majority, but... I don't think Coral is entirely wrong either. There's a lot of people that just don't care. One family member - 'richer' than any of the rest of us combined - was one of the first in our family to get an expensive new TV and expensive HD cable, and even he would always have the TV on the SD channels when I'd visit.
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https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/globa...setId=P1300040
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But did they drop the fee? Maybe this is outdated but I have no idea how else to look it up. I know they still have equipment and DVR fees. Also I didn't realize they actually have a 15 dollar deactivation fee.
https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/globa...setId=P1300040
https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/globa...setId=P1300040
No, I just checked my bill and you still have to pay the HD fee regardless. I rarely paid any attention to that small detail, I just looked at it as part of the costs.
I think this thread is getting way off topic with what the OP's intent was, so I'll end my thoughts on this here.
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No, I just checked my bill and you still have to pay the HD fee regardless. I rarely paid any attention to that small detail, I just looked at it as part of the costs.
I think this thread is getting way off topic with what the OP's intent was, so I'll end my thoughts on this here.
I think this thread is getting way off topic with what the OP's intent was, so I'll end my thoughts on this here.
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I'm sad that through this thread I found out Black Lightning S2 isn't getting a BD release. I would have thought it would have had a Warmer Archive version direct from WB.
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Don't know about the Oscars, but the Emmy Awards are phasing out DVD screeners in 2020 in favour of a members-only streaming service:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/18/...-good-in-2020/
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/18/...-good-in-2020/
I agree sending DVDs is a waste because they probably never do get watched and members are instructed to throw them away once they are finished with them.
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I'm really surprised, especially since DC/Warner's other superhero series are getting wide Blu-ray releases. A Warner Archive exclusive for Black Lightning would've been a little disappointing by comparison, but I'd still be happy to have a copy. Also on the CW tip, Legacies also looks to just going the DVD route via Warner Archive: no Blu-ray release announced.
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I was unaware Warner had dropped Black Lightning altogether from Blu-ray in season two. Wow, that means they don't think they can even sell 750 units of the set. Sales for season one must have been putrid.
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I'm really surprised, especially since DC/Warner's other superhero series are getting wide Blu-ray releases. A Warner Archive exclusive for Black Lightning would've been a little disappointing by comparison, but I'd still be happy to have a copy. Also on the CW tip, Legacies also looks to just going the DVD route via Warner Archive: no Blu-ray release announced.
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And how do you know this? You're making a lot of generalizations and assumptions. Who the heck still owns a 4:3, NTSC television in 2019? And even if you don't have cable and just use an antenna in 2019, all major networks transmit their signals in High Definition.
I've had DirecTV since 2003 and you don't pay anything extra for an HD signal, so your SD assumption makes no sense. Unless you're still stuck with a shitty 4:3 SD TV. Then yeah you can use the option for SD. But if you have an HDTV, which most in America have now, why would you?
I do agree that most of the Walmart crowd don't look for Blu-Rays for impulse movie buys.
I've had DirecTV since 2003 and you don't pay anything extra for an HD signal, so your SD assumption makes no sense. Unless you're still stuck with a shitty 4:3 SD TV. Then yeah you can use the option for SD. But if you have an HDTV, which most in America have now, why would you?
I do agree that most of the Walmart crowd don't look for Blu-Rays for impulse movie buys.
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More on topic, up until recently, when I would visit my parents a few hours away, we'd usually rent a movie from nearby . . . video store! It was a Family Video, mind you, so its very recent closure last month may have been due to more than just the sudden and extreme rent hike they told customers they were handed by the plaza management. For the many years that it lasted, though, it was great to still be able to wander the new release aisles like in the 'old days' — this store reliably stocked nearly every new DVD-only low-budget indie/regional/genre title, as well, which was catnip to me — but it was also interesting to see just how many fellow customers were renting DVD versions over Blu-ray (you could tell from the different coloured cases they'd have in their hands). Both formats rented equally well, I'm sure, but it was telling that they tended to have more DVD copies of most major new titles than Blu-ray, and even when quantities were similar, the DVDs were usually all rented before the Blu-rays on a Friday or Saturday night . . . even in 2019!
They do mention piracy further down in the article, which was in fact a primary reason for eliminating the Emmy screeners. I can imagine the Oscars will follow eventually if they haven't already.
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Even if a lot of it is no-budget, regional indie crap, at least there's still one non-online outlet where their work can face the public for a few weeks, even if only on DVD. As someone with an interest in these kinds of films, but less interest in streaming (just yet!), knowing that they'll end up in $2 bins (or more likely at Big Lots or Hamilton Books) down the road is a nice bonus.
As mentioned in another thread on here, recently I went back to buying books instead of dvds/blurays. I've been quickly coming to the realization a lot of scifi books are just as bad, with very few that seem to be worthwhile re-reads or even first reads. Basically the book equivalent of F-list bottom feeder dvds/blurays.
(This might also be reflective of age, where I'm seeing the same scifi tropes over and over again in many movies and books. I might have felt differently when I read the same type of stuff when I was younger).
Sturgeon's Law may very well apply in just about everywhere in numerous other niches in life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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I believe that in regards to movies (and most other entertainments), for the most part it's all been done at this point, even as we now have more outlets and more "content" available to us than ever before, and everybody and their mother has access to the tools (whether they should really use them or not). It's just new faces, new locations, evolving filmmaking tech that keeps things seeming fresh, but strip all that away and you've basically got tales that have been endlessly reconfigured and retold for decades. Still, the new cosmetics do make them palatable, I suppose.
The one advantage — for now — that keeps me buying certain lesser-known titles (predominantly genre pictures made by reasonably reputable people that I can track via reportage from the fest circuit) is being located in Canada and having regular access to cross-border shopping (and a U.S. mailing address), where those $1.95-$3.95 Hamilton discs and $3/$5/markdown Big Lots discs can at least be resold (after viewing) at a profit on Amazon Canada's Marketplace. Sometimes they sell within weeks, other times months or years, but generally speaking I always make something on the deal. The same just doesn't seem possible with most used discs in the U.S. Also, due to Canada's sparse population, I've discovered there are many areas outside of our few major cities that still don't have reliable high-speed internet, nor can many Canadian movie buffs find certain offbeat titles on our streaming services, which seriously pale in comparison to their American counterparts. If it weren't for all that, I probably wouldn't bother with as many cheapie discs as I still do.
The one advantage — for now — that keeps me buying certain lesser-known titles (predominantly genre pictures made by reasonably reputable people that I can track via reportage from the fest circuit) is being located in Canada and having regular access to cross-border shopping (and a U.S. mailing address), where those $1.95-$3.95 Hamilton discs and $3/$5/markdown Big Lots discs can at least be resold (after viewing) at a profit on Amazon Canada's Marketplace. Sometimes they sell within weeks, other times months or years, but generally speaking I always make something on the deal. The same just doesn't seem possible with most used discs in the U.S. Also, due to Canada's sparse population, I've discovered there are many areas outside of our few major cities that still don't have reliable high-speed internet, nor can many Canadian movie buffs find certain offbeat titles on our streaming services, which seriously pale in comparison to their American counterparts. If it weren't for all that, I probably wouldn't bother with as many cheapie discs as I still do.
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Despite this being contested somewhat, I'll throw in my lot with Coral and say that I personally know a few people who receive SD and HD content via satellite, and indeed have no problem watching either on their 1080p sets. My own parents have one receiver that is only SD, and they're fine with it; the other one is SD/HD and they generally only watch it when I'm visiting. Sometimes, and especially at certain ages, the content is the primary concern, not the resolution. It's just something to watch.
Yes, what Brian is talking about is what I was referring to. I'm not referring to 4x3 TVs, I'm talking about the content people are getting.
I know a quite a few people who have 1080p TVs but the content they receive is only in SD. My mother is an example of this.
I have a Rogers HD cable box and while I have HD content - a chunk of those channels are offered in SD as well on my box. They continue to offer those channels because there's a large enough amount of people who can't view HD content.
There are those who claim that picture quality is important to people, and then say that physical media is so much better than Netflix because of that ... yet how many are using Netflix with this "substandard" picture quality - even if it's considered HD?
Today if people finally want better quality than DVD, they're going to streaming and ignoring BD/UHD-BD entirely. BD/UHD-BD came out too late and people are skipping over it.
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Even if the movie companies want to release bluray (or hddvd) back in the 1990s, they couldn't. IIRC, the blue lasers were tied up in patent disputes until sometime in the early 2000s. Until the patent disputes were settled, there was no point in making bluray or hddvd.
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I believe that in regards to movies (and most other entertainments), for the most part it's all been done at this point, even as we now have more outlets and more "content" available to us than ever before, and everybody and their mother has access to the tools (whether they should really use them or not).
I've been going back to reading more non-fiction historical stuff, now that too much current/recent scifi + genre fiction is just plain awful or really bland whether books or dvd/bluray.
Sometimes real world history can be even more interesting and weirder, than fictionalized versions with similar "tropes". For example, seeing how numerous "tropes" in current/recent movies + shows had possible origins from 1930's Germany.
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(On an historical tangent).
Even if the movie companies want to release bluray (or hddvd) back in the 1990s, they couldn't. IIRC, the blue lasers were tied up in patent disputes until sometime in the early 2000s. Until the patent disputes were settled, there was no point in making bluray or hddvd.
Even if the movie companies want to release bluray (or hddvd) back in the 1990s, they couldn't. IIRC, the blue lasers were tied up in patent disputes until sometime in the early 2000s. Until the patent disputes were settled, there was no point in making bluray or hddvd.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/communi...e-of-the-rays/
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(On an historical tangent).
Even if the movie companies want to release bluray (or hddvd) back in the 1990s, they couldn't. IIRC, the blue lasers were tied up in patent disputes until sometime in the early 2000s. Until the patent disputes were settled, there was no point in making bluray or hddvd.
Even if the movie companies want to release bluray (or hddvd) back in the 1990s, they couldn't. IIRC, the blue lasers were tied up in patent disputes until sometime in the early 2000s. Until the patent disputes were settled, there was no point in making bluray or hddvd.
The music format had a similar situation on bypassing a better quality format. Consumers abandoned CDs, bypassed the superior SACD/DVD-A format and jumped on the inferior MP3 format. Convenience and portability trumped quality. For most people - "good enough" is good enough.
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It seems a lot of Netflix rentals of the new smaller movies are dvd only or they are too cheap to get the blu-ray versions.
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When they put out a season through Warner Archive, they don't believe they will ever sell more than 1500 units. I know for a fact that ratings play into it past the first season - extremely low-rated shows have zero shot at a Blu-ray release.
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I think the superhero shows tend to sell, at least the popular ones that happen to match demographics with the Blu-ray purchaser demo. Basically, Flash and Arrow. Others like Supergirl and Black Lightning, probably not so much.
When they put out a season through Warner Archive, they don't believe they will ever sell more than 1500 units. I know for a fact that ratings play into it past the first season - extremely low-rated shows have zero shot at a Blu-ray release.
When they put out a season through Warner Archive, they don't believe they will ever sell more than 1500 units. I know for a fact that ratings play into it past the first season - extremely low-rated shows have zero shot at a Blu-ray release.