Dukhat said:
And as far as BD goes, there's a difference between buying new stuff that's coming out on BD, and buying an old TV series that's essentially exactly the same as its DVD counterpart in terms of the actual content of the episodes except for the HD transfer.
And this is another thing where I kind of wish they'd pushed the boat out a little further. For me, the extended version of "The Measure Of A Man" was a
BIG draw-card, and I love it. The deleted scenes and blooper reels also have been brilliant, as it's all material we haven't seen before. But when people simply (illegally) upload those things to Youtube within five minutes of buying the sets, and Joe Average can then just go there to watch them, then there isn't any new VAM left worth paying for. So there has to be something
more. CBS didn't necessarily do enough to promote the fact that there was previously unseen original material on these discs.
Perhaps finding a way to do more 'extended length edits' with the deleted scenes incorporated into the main body of the episodes would've been a selling point. IMHO consumers
will pay for something they've already got when they know they're getting something they've
never seen before; but if they just think they're getting the same old episodes they've got on DVD already but just with a nice new transfer, and that they're being charged through the nose for the privlege, they're more likely to say "Meh, maybe someday down the track"..... except that day never comes.
SPCTRE said:
Coupled with the inherent convenience, you can see why physical media is in under a lot of pressure to move in a more specialized, niche market segment in the short to mid term, which means differentiating by offering added content, collector value and the like.
Absolutely. There has to be something
more, and IMO the TNG-R sets did have some great bonus material (the previously unseen blooper reels and deleted scenes), but one wonders if it was quite 'enough' for the average consumer... or whether CBS simply didn't advertise the fact loud enough.