Blu-Ray/4K/DVD PRICES

[orangerunner]

It's part-and-parcel with the decline of physical media sales and manufacturing.

With DVD in the early 2000s and to a lesser extent with Blu-ray, the sales volumes were so high and the market so competitive that sales and low prices were just a part of the retail landscape.

The new reality is the higher cost of production (lower volume of title runs), transportation, storage and distribution costs are all resulting in fewer price reductions.

[albabe]

Originally Posted by orangerunner

It's part-and-parcel with the decline of physical media sales and manufacturing.

With DVD in the early 2000s and to a lesser extent with Blu-ray, the sales volumes were so high and the market so competitive that sales and low prices were just a part of the retail landscape.

The new reality is the higher cost of production (lower volume of title runs), transportation, storage and distribution costs are all resulting in fewer price reductions.

That's what I was thinking. I've worked in Comic Book most of my life and I've been very privy to the financial parameters of Production and Sales...

But I've been doing what I do in terms of buying habits, for decades and, literally, this seemed to change, virtually over night a few months back.