ENT unannounced Blu-ray discussion

[jefferiestubes8]

TNG Season 1 in HD on Blu-ray official SRP is $118.
With the just announced pre-order price for TNG Season 1 on Blu-ray for $78.86 Wal-Mart.
Amazon.com $90.99

Would you be willing to pay $80. for a Blu-ray of ENT when it comes out on Blu-ray in HD?
Since it is streaming in HD at low bit rates on Netflix in the USA would you pay for a Blu-ray?

 

[Harvey]

I'd pick up the complete series on Blu-Ray for 60-80 bucks, tops. Not really a priority for me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

iTunes has the first two seasons of ENT in HD for $50 each. I admit I would pay that.

Unfortunately the third and fourth seasons are: 1) not in HD, and 2) missing one episode each (#3 is missing Zero Hour, and #4 is missing Terra Prime).

 

[BillJ]

I'd pick up the complete series on Blu-Ray for 60-80 bucks, tops. Not really a priority for me.

Same here. I shelled out sixty bucks a season on DVD for Enterprise and I've probably watched a handful of episodes.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Update: iTunes now has the entire 4th season on HD as well. So that makes 3 such seasons - the first, second and fourth - that are fully HD.

The only 3rd season ep that they don't yet have is Zero Hour.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Bump: iTunes now has all four seasons, in full, in HD! I am so there.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

With the success of the TNG remastered series on Blu-ray and a mention of DS9 if TNG is a blockbuster Blu-ray sales of units when will ENT come out on Blu-ray before the format becomes obsolete around 2025?
It needs the least amount of work rather than DS9 & VOY getting a remastered release to Blu-ray.
Are we looking at in 2015 after TNG is finished release?
2016 or later?

 

[R. Star]

DS9 and Voyager would come out before Enterprise, but if TNG/DS9/VOY sales don't boot, there's no reason not to expect Enterprise. I'd like to think DS9/VOY would be released at a more quick pace than TNG is... maybe once a month.

 

[ATimson]

I'd like to think DS9/VOY would be released at a more quick pace than TNG is... maybe once a month.

If anything they'd be slower - more work to redo the CGI than to reassemble the existing footage...

 

[Skywalker]

The first five seasons of DS9 wouldn't require much more work than TNG did, aside from Odo's shapeshifting and a few other things. It was only in Season Six when DS9 started using CGI more often, and even then it wasn't nearly to the same degree that VOY used it.

 

[Angel4576]

I imagine it'll be pretty much the same with DS9 - a release every six months.

I can live with that, even if it does mean that I won't be finishing my DS9-R collection for at least another 7 years......

 

[BillJ]

With the success of the TNG remastered series on Blu-ray and a mention of DS9 if TNG is a blockbuster Blu-ray sales of units when will ENT come out on Blu-ray before the format becomes obsolete around 2025?
It needs the least amount of work rather than DS9 & VOY getting a remastered release to Blu-ray.
Are we looking at in 2015 after TNG is finished release?
2016 or later?

They had a two and a half year gap between TOS and TNG, I think if Enterprise was coming to Blu-ray it would've happened in that gap. Since it's pretty much HD ready.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I can attest to this. ENT looks awesome in HD. Full native 1080p!

 

[BillJ]

I can attest to this. ENT looks awesome in HD. Full native 1080p!

It even looked good when it was broadcast on HDNet.

 

[Harvey]

They had a two and a half year gap between TOS and TNG, I think if Enterprise was coming to Blu-ray it would've happened in that gap. Since it's pretty much HD ready.

The thing about home video is that it's an ancillary revenue source, and a steadily declining one at that. Many new shows -- even ones that have been released on Blu-Ray in the past, or in other regions, are only being released on DVD in North America. Add to that the reality that Enterprise is the least successful spin-off in the franchise, and you don't have a lot of impetus to release it any time soon, although it may eventually come out once/if the other shows are exhausted on Blu-Ray.

 

[ATimson]

The thing about home video is that it's an ancillary revenue source, and a steadily declining one at that. Many new shows -- even ones that have been released on Blu-Ray in the past, or in other regions, are only being released on DVD in North America.

So they effectively stop selling the show (since I will generally refuse to buy DVDs of shows where a high-def version exists), and wonder why their revenue is declining... They need to sell the product if they want to make money!

 

[BillJ]

The thing about home video is that it's an ancillary revenue source, and a steadily declining one at that. Many new shows -- even ones that have been released on Blu-Ray in the past, or in other regions, are only being released on DVD in North America.

So they effectively stop selling the show (since I will generally refuse to buy DVDs of shows where a high-def version exists), and wonder why their revenue is declining... They need to sell the product if they want to make money!

Does anyone know how well the show sold on DVD?

 

[Harvey]

The thing about home video is that it's an ancillary revenue source, and a steadily declining one at that. Many new shows -- even ones that have been released on Blu-Ray in the past, or in other regions, are only being released on DVD in North America.

So they effectively stop selling the show (since I will generally refuse to buy DVDs of shows where a high-def version exists), and wonder why their revenue is declining... They need to sell the product if they want to make money!

Not really. For the most part, television hasn't sold well on Blu-Ray. Programs that have released seasons on Blu-Ray, but no longer do so (like, for example, How I Met Your Mother) , dropped the format because high-def sales were weak.

 

[ATimson]

For the most part, television hasn't sold well on Blu-Ray. Programs that have released seasons on Blu-Ray, but no longer do so (like, for example, How I Met Your Mother) , dropped the format because high-def sales were weak.

Somehow I'm doubting that the DVD sales increased by any substantial percentage of the Blu-ray sales...

 

[Harvey]

Probably not, no.