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I randomly checked Spider-Man: Homecoming and Kingsmen 2: The Golden Circle. Both come with Blu-ray, DVD and digital. Spider-Man is $15 (cheaper than the Amazon Video copy that sells for $19) and Kingsmen is $18. That doesn't seem like an outrageously jacked-up price to me. As mentioned above, Top Gun on VHS sold for $27 in 1987. Formats shift so quickly right now and shelf space in stores is shrinking. It's probably more cost effective for the movie companies to bundle multiple formats than it is to release the formats individually. |
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You need to move to a sensical universe. This is the universe where the actual purchase prices of many ebooks are higher than the actual purchase prices of the corresponding pbooks.
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It's more that I've never made above a C in spelling in my life. For the most part, misspelled words don't even register in my brain. If it wasn't for spell checkers my posts would read like it was written by someone in the 1600's back before spelling became standardized.
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As if lack of demand weren't enough of a challenge, the licensing terms are (or were) exorbitant. |
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I don't buy movies much any more, but I've not seen instances like that. These are usually current popular movies that are released in combo packs and I don't tend to see them released both as a combo and as a stand=alone. You might see them released as DVD only and combo. But rarely the higher end format. |
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If I buy anything it is old TV shows and with lots of those (unless you are talking about Twilight Zone or I Love Lucy) a Blu-ray release is a pipe dream. I just bought Police Story Season 2. It was just released in August and it is DVD only.
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Eventually, you get to the point where something is good enough. When Blu-ray came out, I upgraded a fair number of my favorite movies to Blu-ray. I upgraded my TV to 4K a month or so ago. The picture quality is amazing, but I really can't tell much of a difference between 4K streaming movies and HD streaming movies. I'm probably not going to replace any of my Blu-Ray movies with 4K versions. |
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