Star Trek DVD/Blu sells 5.7million in week one.
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Amazon is having a great Black-Friday sale all week. We picked up TOS Blu-ray Seasons 1 & 2 for $57 bucks each and Season 3 for $52 (55% off).
Seasons 1&2 already arrived; Season 3 is due in December.
Star Trek movie Blu-ray sales
Glad to hear the sales figures are huge. Paramount will have a great year with home video sales of TOS series, and all the I-XI feature films on Blu-ray.
Hopefully this means that CBS Home Entertainment will release Star Trek: Enterprise seasons on Blu-ray
in 2010 maybe in the 4th Quarter since it is already mastered for HD now that they know Blu-ray is a format that does sell and they would want a Trek TV series product on Blu-ray for a 2010 release with minimal additions to special features.
It was supposed to be $24. at Best Buy on release date. I went a week later and the Blu-ray is now $29. Hmm. I may wait for the next sale now myself.
Glad to hear the sales figures are huge. Paramount will have a great year with home video sales of TOS series, and all the I-XI feature films on Blu-ray.
Hopefully this means that CBS Home Entertainment will release Star Trek: Enterprise seasons on Blu-ray
in 2010 maybe in the 4th Quarter since it is already mastered for HD now that they know Blu-ray is a format that does sell and they would want a Trek TV series product on Blu-ray for a 2010 release with minimal additions to special features.
I purchased my Blu-Ray Star Trek at Target for $25 complete with a neat little model of the Enterprise. The Blu-Ray without the Enterprise was $20. (And no sales tax in Oregon to boot!)
(Best buy has blu ray players for $99 if you're contemplating making the switch. Bought one a few weeks ago anticipating this release.)
(Best buy has blu ray players for $99 if you're contemplating making the switch. Bought one a few weeks ago anticipating this release.)
My wife bought me the Target/Enterprise blu-ray version too, $24.99. Now I have to get a blu-ray player. But the 3rd disc is DVD with the digital versions.
You should have bought it first week out. The three disc Blu-ray version was $29.99 at Target, $29.98 at JB Hi-Fi and $29.84 at Big W first week of release. I know for a fact that it's still that price at JB because I saw it yesterday.^The price at Wal-Mart was very good on release day for the Blu-ray - $26. I WASN'T ALLOWED TO BUY IT, THOUGH.I think that I'll see it in about another 30 days.(I would have put a Santa smilie in here if there was one)
I haven't seen it below $40 here. $15/25 are my 'comfortable' price points for DVDs and Blu-Rays respectively, anything pushing beyond $20/30 better have a damned good reason for doing so.
At this rate it'll be a while past Christmas before I pick it up.
Those prices are damn good for a 3-disc Blu-ray set. 2 years ago that was how much the 2-disc DVD special editions cost at release (eg Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and Casino Royale), and what's more is that they still do cost that much. In terms of value for money the Blu-ray is a far better option due to quality and some times additional content. As for players they are now hitting the sub $250 mark so Blu-ray is finally getting more popular and financially viable.
If you plan on going to the cinema and you have a partner it'll cost you $30 to go most times. Now you can own the Blu-ray for that price which looks IMHO far better than most cinemas and you can watch it as many times as you like. If it's a film you enjoy that's good value.
Ditto. Saw it for 19.99 elsewhere but the Enterprise model was worth the extra $5.
Feh.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created!
The power to entertain millions is nothing compared to the power of the Dark Side!
..
Damn, I miss Scott Bakula!
sigh.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created!
The power to entertain millions is nothing compared to the power of the Dark Side!
..
Damn, I miss Scott Bakula!
sigh.
Char Aznable
Lieutenant Commander
It looks like Star Trek has dropped to 5th in week 2.
I think the top 5 is:
1. Up
2. The Dark Knight
3. Angels & Demons
4. Santa Buddies (Direct to DVD)
5. Star Trek
Frankly I think that is a poor showing...
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/black-friday-shakes-disc-sales-17745
Also the week one sales are actually 5.15 Million, not 5.7.
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2118967 (scroll down)
I think the top 5 is:
1. Up
2. The Dark Knight
3. Angels & Demons
4. Santa Buddies (Direct to DVD)
5. Star Trek
Frankly I think that is a poor showing...
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/black-friday-shakes-disc-sales-17745
Also the week one sales are actually 5.15 Million, not 5.7.
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2118967 (scroll down)
Not really. You should note the phenomenon known as "Black Friday" as was mentioned in the Reuters article. It isn't just another week in DVD sales, and the retailers don't treat it as such either. So it's not surprising that two kids DVDs (what do you think all those parents were out shopping for at 5 AM?) and a huge DVD that was big with the kids this past year, and being offered for dirt cheap, did great business on black Friday (I can assure you that TDK didn't jump as many spots as it did because of a coincidental sudden interest in the film in one week.) Not really surprised with that last and actually pleased that Star Trek held up how it did given, again, Black Friday.
It's safe to say that there wasn't some strange phenomenon in which all the parents and anyone else shopping for DVDs were suddenly made aware that the new film somehow tore down Gene Almighty's vision of a bright future and yada yada yada.
Oh well, still took 3rd largest opening in 2009 apparently.
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Hm. Didn´t the figure you linked to in the original post include the sales of Blu ray discs as well? Does the list over at UK Mix do that?
Anyway, I guess most of these numbers are qualified guesses.
Not really. You should note the phenomenon known as "Black Friday" as was mentioned in the Reuters article. It isn't just another week in DVD sales, and the retailers don't treat it as such either. So it's not surprising that two kids DVDs (what do you think all those parents were out shopping for at 5 AM?) and a huge DVD that was big with the kids this past year, and being offered for dirt cheap, did great business on black Friday (I can assure you that TDK didn't jump as many spots as it did because of a coincidental sudden interest in the film in one week.) Not really surprised with that last and actually pleased that Star Trek held up how it did given, again, Black Friday.
It's safe to say that there wasn't some strange phenomenon in which all the parents and anyone else shopping for DVDs were suddenly made aware that the new film somehow tore down Gene Almighty's vision of a bright future and yada yada yada.
Sorry, no, being in the UK means I am not aware of this phenomenon! I will take your word for it
Yes this does include Blu-Ray. When the-numbers.com updates its chart it should be about 3.x million because it is DVDs only.
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