Why have Disney & Warner Bros given up on releasing their vintage shorts to Blu-ray?

[steve_dave]

For Warner, the expense of remastering them in HD outweighed the sales. It simply cost far too much to produce the Blu-rays which were just not selling as expected.

Paramount had this happen with Star Trek: The Next Generation, far too many fans demanded they be remastered for Blu-ray. Paramount put forth the effort but far too few fans actually bought the release to justify any further remastering projects for Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

And Fox realized that with over 25 seasons, The Simpsons would be a financial black hole. Yeah, we have folks here who say they would buy them but the world is huge. When people aren't buying something, the company has to say we need to stop.