No Complete Blu-Ray Release for Atlantis ?

[Hermiod]

Sounds that way according to MGM.

I was holding off on buying season five on DVD but I've ordered it now.

From the article, all we are going to get is the Fans Choice Blu-Ray and the Extinction Direct-to-DVD movie.

The Fans Choice seems to only include "Rising" and "Enemy at the Gate" which makes it not worth getting in my view.

 

[ATimson]

From the article, all we are going to get is the Fans Choice Blu-Ray and the Extinction Direct-to-DVD movie.

We may not even get the latter.

I wonder if poor Blu-ray sales of Ark and Continuum is why the "Fan's Choice" disc was cut from 4 or 5 episodes to two, and there's no "Children of the Gods" Blu-ray.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Not going to get SG-1 in season sets on Blu Ray either, from what I hear.

MGM looks like it's about to put the older incarnations of the franchise to bed for a good while if not permanently.

 

[ATimson]

Not going to get SG-1 in season sets on Blu Ray either, from what I hear.

Only the last 2-4 seasons of the show were finished in high-def anyways. So while it would be nice to get better-compressed episodes (some of those five-episode discs are just plain nasty because of the artifacts), there's no big leap in resolution possible without redoing all of the effects (and possibly all the edits, too, depending on whether they finished on film or on tape).

Even then, it's iffy how the first three seasons, shot on 16mm, would look.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Not going to get SG-1 in season sets on Blu Ray either, from what I hear.

Only the last 2-4 seasons of the show were finished in high-def anyways. So while it would be nice to get better-compressed episodes (some of those five-episode discs are just plain nasty because of the artifacts), there's no big leap in resolution possible without redoing all of the effects (and possibly all the edits, too, depending on whether they finished on film or on tape).

Even then, it's iffy how the first three seasons, shot on 16mm, would look.

True, as far as it goes, but I'm hearing that the major reason is that sales have fallen WAY off. OK, the economy's bad, but it appears that the drop off is to large for it to be the sole reason.

 

[ATimson]

True, as far as it goes, but I'm hearing that the major reason is that sales have fallen WAY off. OK, the economy's bad, but it appears that the drop off is to large for it to be the sole reason.

If there's been a falloff, it's something Stargate specific or maybe MGM-specific. Blu-ray sales in general are continuing to climb from what I've read on The Digital Bits and elsewhere. And other studios have no problem releasing archival TV material on Blu-ray (Disney--Lost; Universal--Battlestar Galactica; CBS--Star Trek; 2entertain--Torchwood), much less new material (everybody above, and also Fox and Warner Brothers) like Atlantis S5 should have been.

Maybe MGM's sales on the two SG-1 movies in high-def weren't what they expected--though when you release one of them on high-def months after the DVD, well, you shouldn't expect great sales. And I wouldn't be surprised if sales on DVD of the last few seasons were dented by people wanting high-def and waiting. (Not a deep dent, mind you, and I wouldn't even go so far as to say I expect it, but I still wouldn't be surprised by one.)

 

[darkwing_duck1]

True, as far as it goes, but I'm hearing that the major reason is that sales have fallen WAY off. OK, the economy's bad, but it appears that the drop off is to large for it to be the sole reason.

If there's been a falloff, it's something Stargate specific or maybe MGM-specific. Blu-ray sales in general are continuing to climb from what I've read on The Digital Bits and elsewhere. And other studios have no problem releasing archival TV material on Blu-ray (Disney--Lost; Universal--Battlestar Galactica; CBS--Star Trek; 2entertain--Torchwood), much less new material (everybody above, and also Fox and Warner Brothers) like Atlantis S5 should have been.

Maybe MGM's sales on the two SG-1 movies in high-def weren't what they expected--though when you release one of them on high-def months after the DVD, well, you shouldn't expect great sales. And I wouldn't be surprised if sales on DVD of the last few seasons were dented by people wanting high-def and waiting. (Not a deep dent, mind you, and I wouldn't even go so far as to say I expect it, but I still wouldn't be surprised by one.)

I think it's Stargate specific, and I think it's a general winding down of support, to be honest. The last several seasons of both shows seemed to leave a lot of people "meh", and the critical acclaim has fallen way off. Someone pointed out in another thread that Stargate was barely registering on the radar of several of the big "critique" boards.

I also think a lot of fans underestimate just how "niche" Stargate really was/is. Sci-Fi is probably the ONLY network that would have kept the show on the air as long as it did with the ratings it got.

 

[cylkoth]

Note the cast credits in this blurb...

http://www.videobusiness.com/ReleasesDetail/56111.html?nid=3095

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Well, I just found out (from reading over at Gateworld), that MGM just BARELY avoided being sent into involuntary bankruptcy.

If their cashflows are so bad, it would be a strong incentive to be VERY conservative about commissioning new product releases...

 

[Harvey]

If they're being conservative, why did they commission a vanity project like the Children of the Gods Final Cut? I do wonder how expensive a run of Stargate Atlantis would be on Blu-Ray, though. It's not as if they have to record any new elements. They have all the features, and the episodes are already mastered in HD.

 

[Hermiod]

^Plus there are sucke... I mean fans like me who would have double dipped.

 

[ATimson]

^Plus there are sucke... I mean fans like me who would have double dipped.

And me, but I would've flogged the old ones online too like I did with BSG.