Warner Brothers and missed opportunities

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Over the last couple of months, Warner titles that have only been released on Blu-ray habe been great because they are getting the proper encodes done on them. Titles like 'V For Vendetta' and 'Batman Begins' are titles that have already been released on HD DVD and thus have been ported over. Although I don't like what they are doing, I can understand why they are doing it. Is it worth the $$$ for them to restart the process from scratch? Certainly not. From a business perspective they would have a hard time breaking even on the title. But, keep in mind too that they are offering these titles at much better prices than their competitors because of the port factor. Both 'V For Vendetta' and 'Batman Begins' were available for $18.95 and/or $19.95 from day one that they were available. Every other studio is asking $27.95 or more per title.