Spent more on the DVD then 4K BD of same film?

[Hintermann]

In 2000, I paid £24.99 for DVD release of The Fifth Element, the most expensive marked price single disc DVD that I have ever purchased. Last month, I bought the 4K BD (which also included the regular BD disc in the case) for £21.99.

Do any of you recall spending more for the DVD years ago and less for its 4K equivalent? Marked prices from High Street or on-line sources only - not third party transactions.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Hintermann

In 2000, I paid £24.99 for DVD release of The Fifth Element, the most expensive marked price single disc DVD that I have ever purchased. Last month, I bought the 4K BD (which also included the regular BD disc in the case) for £21.99.

Do any of you recall spending more for the DVD years ago and less for its 4K equivalent? Marked prices from High Street or on-line sources only - not third party transactions.

I'd imagine a few members have spent about 4-5 times more for VHS tapes and LaserDisc releases.

I have far too many DVDs that were £24.99, thankfully the UHDs weren't as expensive.

[elvisranger]

Way back in 2002 when I bought my first dvds the standard price for a single dvd was 30 euros. I got Grease for that price and paid 37 euros for Die Another Day, a few months later, which was the "standard" price for movies with 2 discs! I also remember that the original edition of Back to the Future trilogy was around 64 euros for 3 discs.

[orangerunner]

The very first movie I bought was a used VHS copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark from the local video store for $30 in 1984.

That's the nature of any electronics product; the technology only gets better and cheaper as time moves forward.

[Lemmy Lugosi]

I remember having to special order Jurassic Park in widescreen, because retail stores generally only stocked 4x3 fullscreen videotapes back then. And because it was only a specialty item intended for some high-end displays in places like Blockbuster, it wasn't cheap... $80 worth of not cheap, to be precise. The fullscreen sold for 15-20 bucks. To add insult to self-inflicted injury, it was released to the general public in widescreen about a year later, and cost the same as the fullscreen version.

[manieraien]

Hi there. I'd rather spent money on 4K equivalent rather on DVD, despite I liked it a lot when I was a child.

[Fnord Prefect]

Originally Posted by Hintermann

In 2000, I paid £24.99 for DVD release of The Fifth Element, the most expensive marked price single disc DVD that I have ever purchased. Last month, I bought the 4K BD (which also included the regular BD disc in the case) for £21.99.

Do any of you recall spending more for the DVD years ago and less for its 4K equivalent? Marked prices from High Street or on-line sources only - not third party transactions.

Not DVDs but a good example of how the cost of collecting home video products has in many respects gone down. In the early 90's I bought all 13 VHS volumes of Star Trek the Next Generation for between £10 and £13 each, so let's just call it ~£145 for the set.

Never bothered with the DVDs but about three years ago I bought the blu-ray set of the season for £2.99 (rrp ~£30) in a charity shop so I guess that fulfills your high street criteria.

[Gizz]

I remember paying about £ 24 for this back in the day.

[Phillip c. Niethe]

I remember a lot of DVD'S being around the $30.00 dollar mark and T2 when it first came out was $37.00 on DVD.

[mikesncc1701]

When Star Trek The Original Series came out in season sets on DVD and not individual volumes, 100 dollars each. Now the entire series goes for 50-60 bucks which is the range I got it at.

[manieraien]

Originally Posted by manieraien

Hi there. I'd rather spent money on 4K equivalent rather on DVD, despite I liked it a lot when I was a child.

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[KIDplus]

I don't think there's a single movie in my collection I spent less for a 4K disc than the DVD, but I've definitely done this with blu-ray. I spent less on The Matrix 4K set than the Ultimate Matrix Collection, and both times I bought Momento on blu I spent less than I did for the collector's edition DVD. Same with Dawn of the Dead.

Anime is a whole other story. Nothing was worse than anime prices. They would sell a series across 6 volumes with each DVD costing around $25-$30. Complete series sets were a bargain at $100-$150. Now you can get a whole season for $30 or stream it on Crunchyroll.