Originally posted by: Shimraa
its not narrow minded its practical. what is narrowminded is the fact you dont accept that as a reasonable excuse, cause it is. [/q
No it isn´t. The empire of dreams documentary (A BONUS FEATURE!) clearly shows scenes from the OOT in anamorphic quality.
you may not like it but the bottem line is that it is a reasonable excuse they dont want to spend the time and money to remake the prints for the few fans that want them, its a question of whether its worth there time.
They don´t have to remake prints, they just have to use the masters the evidently have in their vaults. It is already confirmed that quality 35mm Technicolor dye(!) prints have survived from the original trilogy.
spend millions to re do work they already have and sell maybe 250 000 of them.
1. they will sell much more than that. You are forgetting that people in europe here are also the customers.
2. you don´t have to spend millions to scan a decent film print. It´s a standard procedure nowadays. Films, which have sold much less than 250.000 have been given this treatment you think is so costly and special.
lets do some math, ok say you sell that many, and at 40 bucks a pop, thats 10 mill for each movie, 30 mill total for gross. now how much is the resoration going to cost them, i would say at the very least 5 - 10 million for each film cause there is alot of work to go from the original film to even the 93s. ok to be fair we will say 7.5 mill each, ok so thats 22.5 mill to make the things. now stores need to make money lets say and this si very generous that stores make 10 bucks on each dvd. ok so there we have what 250 000 times 10 times 3. thats 7.5 mil, add that to the 22.5 mill already to make the things, thats 30 mill right there. now what about the costs of advertising, and shipping and packaging and all of that. the bottem line is that they dont want to do it. and they have a legitmate reason. you may not like it, or think its fair, but look at it from there pov. i know they have made billions off you so what if they have a loss of a few mill on some dvd. well they care.
its not narrow minded its practical. what is narrowminded is the fact you dont accept that as a reasonable excuse, cause it is. [/q
No it isn´t. The empire of dreams documentary (A BONUS FEATURE!) clearly shows scenes from the OOT in anamorphic quality.
you may not like it but the bottem line is that it is a reasonable excuse they dont want to spend the time and money to remake the prints for the few fans that want them, its a question of whether its worth there time.
They don´t have to remake prints, they just have to use the masters the evidently have in their vaults. It is already confirmed that quality 35mm Technicolor dye(!) prints have survived from the original trilogy.
spend millions to re do work they already have and sell maybe 250 000 of them.
1. they will sell much more than that. You are forgetting that people in europe here are also the customers.
2. you don´t have to spend millions to scan a decent film print. It´s a standard procedure nowadays. Films, which have sold much less than 250.000 have been given this treatment you think is so costly and special.
lets do some math, ok say you sell that many, and at 40 bucks a pop, thats 10 mill for each movie, 30 mill total for gross. now how much is the resoration going to cost them, i would say at the very least 5 - 10 million for each film cause there is alot of work to go from the original film to even the 93s. ok to be fair we will say 7.5 mill each, ok so thats 22.5 mill to make the things. now stores need to make money lets say and this si very generous that stores make 10 bucks on each dvd. ok so there we have what 250 000 times 10 times 3. thats 7.5 mil, add that to the 22.5 mill already to make the things, thats 30 mill right there. now what about the costs of advertising, and shipping and packaging and all of that. the bottem line is that they dont want to do it. and they have a legitmate reason. you may not like it, or think its fair, but look at it from there pov. i know they have made billions off you so what if they have a loss of a few mill on some dvd. well they care.
Since you don´t know the figures, because you are no insider, and have never known how much a transfer costs, these figures you are trying to push here are worthless.
Films with much less sales figures and popularity, coming from much smaller DVD production companies, have been given a much better treatment. This already proves that you are horribly wrong here.
All they do now is trying to go the cheap way, to test our faith in this release.