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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

But it’s not 1993. Premium home entertainment is no longer a niche market. There certainly would be people buying it at $250 plus today, but they would make more money selling more at a lower price. In 1993, you already had to have money to have laserdisc, but BD is a format for the relative masses.

BD is as cheap as dvd.

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moviefreakedmind said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

But it’s not 1993. Premium home entertainment is no longer a niche market. There certainly would be people buying it at $250 plus today, but they would make more money selling more at a lower price. In 1993, you already had to have money to have laserdisc, but BD is a format for the relative masses.

BD is as cheap as dvd.

Which is why I’m honestly a bit shocked when I walk into a Best Buy and they’re selling $25 DVD players next to $40 base model Blu Ray players. Who’s buying them?

TV’s Frink said:

I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

But it’s not 1993. Premium home entertainment is no longer a niche market. There certainly would be people buying it at $250 plus today, but they would make more money selling more at a lower price. In 1993, you already had to have money to have laserdisc, but BD is a format for the relative masses.

Home entertainment in general was a total luxury. Video tapes used to be so expensive that the only way to watch a large selection of tapes at home was to rent them, usually along with a rented VCR too. It’s just not that way anymore.

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You guys forget how much of a special case Star Wars is. The dvds for things like Droids and the Ewok films go for hundreds of dollars on the second hand market.

A boxset packed with special features for the OUT? They could and probably would set the price in the hundreds.

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Tobar said:

hold.

Me closer, Tony Danza?

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

END OF LINE

(It hasn’t happened yet)

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Tobar said:

You guys forget how much of a special case Star Wars is. The dvds for things like Droids and the Ewok films go for hundreds of dollars on the second hand market.

A boxset packed with special features for the OUT? They could and probably would set the price in the hundreds.

Yeah but before those went out of print I was seeing them in the $5 bin at Walmart.

I got the initial Blu-ray release day one at Target for $70. Doubt a set with less movies would go for more (even if we knew it was better). 4K would change things, but not that much.

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DominicCobb said:

Tobar said:

You guys forget how much of a special case Star Wars is. The dvds for things like Droids and the Ewok films go for hundreds of dollars on the second hand market.

A boxset packed with special features for the OUT? They could and probably would set the price in the hundreds.

Yeah but before those went out of print I was seeing them in the $5 bin at Walmart.

I got the initial Blu-ray release day one at Target for $70. Doubt a set with less movies would go for more (even if we knew it was better). 4K would change things, but not that much.

Right. None of these things are expensive until they’re out of print. Also, studios don’t really price things in terms of how great the movie is. They don’t think in terms of, “this is a great movie so we can raise the price on it”. The only example of a really high priced home media release was the Wonder Years dvds recently, but that’s because they had to pay for close to 300 songs in order to put that together, but even after a few months they started selling it for a reasonable price.

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Also, if the OUT inexplicably cost hundreds of dollars, how much of their potential customers would just torrent it? Not to condone piracy of course, but I really don’t think that even 5% of people who would like to see the OUT on blu ray would spend hundreds for it.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

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Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

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moviefreakedmind said:

Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

They wouldn’t. I’m just saying that studios do, at times, price these things absurdly high.

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Wazzles said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

They wouldn’t. I’m just saying that studios do, at times, price these things absurdly high.

Obviously they have because it’s still for sale, now at $500.

TV’s Frink said:

I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Wazzles said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

They wouldn’t. I’m just saying that studios do, at times, price these things absurdly high.

Obviously they have because it’s still for sale, now at $500.

Bill Hunt said:
I did a little window-shopping research and ran the numbers last night. For $799.99, I could – right now on Amazon – buy…

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Theatrical Edition BD set ($21.75)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Extended Edition BD set ($48.99)

The Hobbit Trilogy – Theatrical Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo set ($97.89)

The Hobbit Trilogy – Extended Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo set ($106.98)

(And if you add up all those movie and extras discs, that comes to 48 discs of content – which is truly complete – as opposed to this set’s 30.) Plus…

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 3-CD Soundtrack Collection ($30)

The Hobbit Special Edition soundtrack CDs ($20 each x 3 films = $60)

The “Art of The Lord of the Rings” hardcover books for each film ($44 each x 3 = $132)

The “Art & Design of The Hobbit” hardcover books for each film ($30 each x 3 = $90)

If you’re following along at home (or the office) that comes to a subtotal of $587.61.

That leaves me with $212.38…

… which is almost enough to buy a hand-crafted prop replica of The Hat of Gandalf The freaking Grey from the WETA Workshop too (for $219 – see this link, and yes that’s it pictured up above there on the left side of the page. It’s kind of badass).

And I’ll build my own damn shelf to hold it all.

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Handman said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Wazzles said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

They wouldn’t. I’m just saying that studios do, at times, price these things absurdly high.

Obviously they have because it’s still for sale, now at $500.

Bill Hunt said:
I did a little window-shopping research and ran the numbers last night. For $799.99, I could – right now on Amazon – buy…

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Theatrical Edition BD set ($21.75)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Extended Edition BD set ($48.99)

The Hobbit Trilogy – Theatrical Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo set ($97.89)

The Hobbit Trilogy – Extended Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo set ($106.98)

(And if you add up all those movie and extras discs, that comes to 48 discs of content – which is truly complete – as opposed to this set’s 30.) Plus…

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 3-CD Soundtrack Collection ($30)

The Hobbit Special Edition soundtrack CDs ($20 each x 3 films = $60)

The “Art of The Lord of the Rings” hardcover books for each film ($44 each x 3 = $132)

The “Art & Design of The Hobbit” hardcover books for each film ($30 each x 3 = $90)

If you’re following along at home (or the office) that comes to a subtotal of $587.61.

That leaves me with $212.38…

… which is almost enough to buy a hand-crafted prop replica of The Hat of Gandalf The freaking Grey from the WETA Workshop too (for $219 – see this link, and yes that’s it pictured up above there on the left side of the page. It’s kind of badass).

And I’ll build my own damn shelf to hold it all.

Yeah but who wants any of that crap? 😃

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Harry Potter just dropped in 4K. SRP $44.95 a title and currently pre-ordering on Amazon at that price, no box set, while the 2016 Blu Ray is selling on Amazon for $8.

  1. Can’t believe that price.
  2. A per-title release instead of box is interesting. Even more interesting is we’re getting the last four in the series first, with the other four titles coming later in 2017.

For the OT, if we get 4K (and even if not), I like the individual title release idea, but $45 per title?? New releases don’t even fetch that on the format. Hopefully we won’t get gouged like this if the OUT comes around this year.

Hmm, I had read that the UHDs were being released in 2x combo packs. Did that not end up happening? Or perhaps that ended up being for digital 4K sales?

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An OUT BD set shouldn’t cost more than 40-60$.

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If we’re lucky it would look like this for each film as a standalone release:
Disney combo pack consisting of
Disc 1 final SE revision or hopefully just an HD scan of the 97.
Disc 2 restored original with Dolby stereo, mono and 70mm.
Bonus features on both discs and perhaps a third for space.
DVD copy or digital copy included.
29.99 retail.

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If I get a good set with a proper OOT I don’t care if they label it Disc 87-1/2.

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TV’s Frink said:

If I get a good set with a proper OOT I don’t care if they label it Disc 87-1/2.

even if the disc art is luke with a sombrero?