Batman Begins Limited Edition Gift Set: But is it ??

[TenEightyP]

It was upon reading the review on these pages that the question above came to mind. To be more accurate I would like to further discuss the "Limited Edition" tag.

What constitutes a limited edition these days?

To me as someone who has spent a lot of money on music CD's over the years I have become very used to the term limited edition. I have plenty of discs which purport to be limited, but are in actuality just a marketing gimmick as I can still purchase them years on. On the contrary, I have also purchased CD's which are truly limited, being an edition of 500, 1000 or 1500 worldwide (and have never been released in the same format again).

With DVD and Blu-ray you hardly ever see figures for the limitation (except Helvetica - which I recently purchased on Blu). So what do you guy and girls think about the true limitation of Blu's like Batman Begins?

Do you think that it is not so limited at all?

Is it really so limited, and what is the world wide distribution - 10,000; 20,000; 50,000; 100,000 or even 1,000,000 units? It would be very interesting if anyone had true figures.

Do you think that there is any future value in these sets?

For some, they may think that these sets could provide a future auction site profit, is this a factor for anyone? But future value is also dependent in part on scarcity and if there are many, many copies out there, value is curtailed.

So, just one admission to end, I am a bit of a sucker for limited editions (but I am starting to question their value). I'm hoping that the above will kick of some healthy debate on the subject, in turn may provide me with a new angle or insight into the whole limited edition quandary.

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