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dont remember ever seeing DVD postpone any movies
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There have been many DVDs postponed over the years. The difference is that you most likely never paid as much attention.
The reasons a movie can be postponed can be extremely varied
Legal: (most often with catalogue titles) sometimes someone else has rights on something (like a music score) and deals need to be brokered before the release.
Release Timing: sometimes a title will be announced for a date but the studio will decide it would not be the right time so they postpone it a bit. One example of this (that happens relatively frequently)is when studio A announces a relatively big title but B announces an extremely big title. Since most people won’t buy (or rent) more then one movie and the first week is the most important, A would change the linup to put mediocre titles (or catalogue) that are not as critical)
Creation Timing: Sometimes things take a bit longer. The issue is that replicators make their schedule and so if the studio misses the window then it needs to put in a new demand
Content issues: sometimes the studio thinks it has something that it does not, for example it looks at the master and realizes that it needs restoration which it did not anticipate.
Additional content: The studio might have decided to add extra content at the last minute (for example it started out as a disk set but all that they wanted to add would not fit so decided to go with a two disk and then add more content)
Scheduling: let’s face it there are many steps involving many people sometimes things don’t happen in a timely manner, for example the director is working on a different project and was not available to film a commentary.
And there are probably many other reasons that I have not thought of (and these apply and have happened equally well for DVD
For BD I can think of a few more.
For example R & B films delayed one title (I think it was Nature’s Journey) because of a bug in a couple of players (and wanted to wait for them to be updated) and I think Chronus was delayed because he noticed an incompatibility with some players (his disk ws not to spec)