DS9 on blu ray?
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I've got an idea.
You guys all buy everything for full price as soon as it comes out.
That way, it won't matter if I wait a while...
As so, if you're now waiting for DS9 on blu, it'll probably be about the same time that Romulan hell freezes over....
The ship has sailed. And DS9 wasn't on it.
Sad but true.
The reality of it is, I'd never have been able to stump up £250+ for it anyway. Again, I'd have had to hope it dropped in price over time...
But did they lower the wholesale cost, i.e the price the retailer pays. Rather than the retail price the price we pay? Or is it a consequence of a lower wholesale price we have a lower retail price.
The retailer could for example have paid US$10 per unit whether they sell it at US$200 or US$50.
Or are the retailers lowering the price to get rid of stock they have paid for and just lowering their profit margin?
Having worked once at a DVD wholesaler, most likely both. There's the possibility that CBS had a tonne of pressed Blu-rays they couldn't sell to retailers as the sets wern't selling, but I would've just used all those discs for the complete boxset, and maintained the original single season price per unit.
The latest negative news from Trekcore.com, from earlier today:
TrekCoreStaff Mod Clem Violette • 41 minutes ago
At this time CBS has no plans to remaster either DS9 or Voyager. The remastering team has been gone for more than a year and a half at this point, and the sales of TNG's original Blu-ray run fell far short of the financial goals needed to support either project.
TrekCoreStaff Mod Clem Violette • 41 minutes ago
At this time CBS has no plans to remaster either DS9 or Voyager. The remastering team has been gone for more than a year and a half at this point, and the sales of TNG's original Blu-ray run fell far short of the financial goals needed to support either project.
I still don't understand why they won't release the new TNG masters on DVD?
Does seem strange. Perhaps to make people buy the blu-rays?
If sales fell that far short, maybe they figure they'd be throwing more money toward a lower-quality product that might not even sell as well as the existing one did.
Honestly, Blu ray players themselves are affordable enough at this point that buying one costs roughly as much as a season of the series.
Honestly, Blu ray players themselves are affordable enough at this point that buying one costs roughly as much as a season of the series.
Why spend any money authoring new discs when you can re-release the previous DVD versions at no extra cost instead? I'm speaking in generalities here, but the audience that cares about TNG being remastered bought the series on Blu-Ray already. The audience that is still buying TNG on DVD doesn't care.
Since when is a comment under an online article – so in other words basically an opinion piece – considered “latest news”?
TrekCore has some connections with insiders. But the fact that blu-rays for DS9 are not happening is not news at all. We've known the bad news for almost two years. This just confirms it yet again for anyone who might not know.
I still don't get why, when TNG S6 was out on Bluray, CBS highlighted DS9 in Birthright (which is a fairly minor part of the season) if they weren't going to repair & remaster DS9 at some point.
Probably hedging their bets.
I think that was the campaign of the people actually doing the remastering and making the documentaries. They were, in a sense, sending out promos from the inside for a rebuild of DS9. But, as we all know, it didn't pan out....
I just want them to, at the very least, test things out with a Fathom Event of "Emissary."
I doubt you'll ever see another Fathom event of a Star Trek TV show. People got wind who worked on the show and wanted their cut of the proceeds. But even then, a Fathom event wouldn't cover the cost of remastering "Emissary".
Not really, the vast majority of the bluray's available today are from the early to current HD era, or transfered from 35mm film negatives.
Stuff that only exists on VHS is extremely rare, anything that had a 35mm print with only credits and such to work on are being listed. Nothing that has VHS elements accounting for 10-20% or more.
Stuff that only exists on VHS is extremely rare, anything that had a 35mm print with only credits and such to work on are being listed. Nothing that has VHS elements accounting for 10-20% or more.
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