TV Predictions article - "Are we headed for a stalemate?" (17.06.07)

[baccusboy]

All studios seem to be realizing that catalog titles, however inviting, do not sell very well on HD DVD or Blu-ray, and that new titles do much better. This contradicts the studios’ previous experience with VHS and DVD, but it makes sense. Twenty years of video formats have left most early adopters with large collections of LD’s, VHS’s, and most of all, DVD’s, so high-priced and unmotivated catalog titles do not have as much appeal as was expected. Even titles like The Matrix have not sold spectacularly well. Hence, studios are pulling catalog titles until a later period when adoption has increased.

So is that part of the answer to Fox pulling back? Catalogue titles not selling well?

Sounds interesting. Plausible.

Does Fox have many new releases?

[The Don]

Originally Posted by baccusboy

So is that part of the answer to Fox pulling back? Catalogue titles not selling well?

Sounds interesting. Plausible.

Does Fox have many new releases?

I can't think of any off the top of the head aside from Fantastic 4 RSS, I think...and the last one I recalled was X-Men III, but I thought it did pretty well on BD...

they probably don't have many new movies?...

[GasCat]

Keep in mind that this an op-ed piece.

"Robert Smith, a Palo Alto area technology official, is a HD Observer for TVPredictions.com. If you would like to be a HD Observer, send an e-mail to: swann@tvpredictions.com"

[WriteSimply]

2007 Sunshine. Die Hard 4.0. The Simpsons. 28 Weeks Later.
2006 Borat.


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