HD movies

[Delta1]

guardian said:
Well the season 1 Box Set had 29 'hours' of shows, while a 10 movie set would have only 20 hours so I think they'd be nuts to charge more than $125.

Paramount's pricing is nuts. No reason to think they'll change. Especially when Trekkies keep ponying up the quatloos. Season One of TOS-HD has a MSRP of $195, and sells for $133 at Amazon. Season One of Heroes lists at and sells for $70. TOS is combo discs, which drives the price up somewhat, but they're still charging almost twice as much for the forty-year-old series than they are for the brand new series. The TNG box set's MSRP is $456 and it sells on Amazon for $298. Compare that to the X-Files box set, which has two additional seasons and a movie yet sells for $231.

If you want to stick to movies, Top Gun--a Paramount catalog title--sells for $20 in HD DVD and $11 DVD, which is almost a 100% premium for HD goodness. Apply that markup to the extant Star Trek movie DVD box set, and you'd get $132.73 (MSRP $181). Less than I expected, but still more than you did.

If i can buy my 6 favorites at less of a price than an overpriced box set--I will. So they might as well make them reasonable. It isn't really an option buying your favorite TOS episodes ala' carte.

In fact, it is--or at least, it was. Not the HD versions, but the regular versions were all released on 2-episode discs.

And if you will buy your six favorites for less than the price of an overpriced box set, that is how Paramount will sell them to you. Better to sell six units of something cheap than zero units of something expensive.

 

[guardian]

Trevanian........

The myth I was referring to was that so many people don't realize that film has more resolution than HD formats.

I keep seeing people say, "that can't be put on HD DVD because it is an old movie not shot in HD"

So I understand the whole thing. I don't see how people can be unaware that Casablance is out in Hidef and if they do know, do they think that it was shot with Hidef cameras in 1942?

As for the movie pricing....

If I can buy the 1-10 box set for $125 instead of buying my six favorites for $110, I would. The small difference is worth the extra amount. But if the box set is $175 or some such nonsense, I will buy the individual discs.

Since the discs are made in Mexico for pennies, I think Paramount would be wise to take my theoretical $15 rather than assume we'll all have to have all 10. I have no desire to see the Voyage Home or Generations more than a couple of times again in my life and I can borrow them any day from my local library.

So I think they would be wise to make the Box set reasonable for the extra money they would make.

Yes, I know that the TOS episodes were available in two-episode formats but that is not ala' carte because you might have a favorite mixed with an episode you despise.

For example I love 'City on the...' and hate "Operation:...', so the two packs were not what I needed

Oh yeah, you are right Paramount IS nuts and may overprice both the single releases and the box set, keeping me from spending any money on their products.

 

[trevanian]

Sorry, misunderstood.

 

[guardian]

It's okay, the more people the better who read that film is ideal for the Hidef formats, the less we have to hear their uninformed statements.

When the Hidef formats really catch on, we'll be seeing loads of of TV shows transferred.......Twilight Zone, Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Invaders, Fugitive etc.

I guess there'll be more confusion when they wonder why shows shot in the 70s & 80s on videotape can't be properly transferred to Hidef. "But 'All in the Family' is 20 years newer than Gunsmoke!"

By the way, the Trek epidodes look fantastic. Except for the disolves and some of the live action FX like phaser shots & transporter beam ins & outs the prints look unbelieveable. I noticed a tons of details i never saw before. They got almost all the dirt and tears considering they were working under such timne pressure.

 

[Borjis]

I have HD recordings TVH and TFF on my DVR. Both look really good. I wish they'd play the other movies so I could record them.