Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (50th Anniversary Edition) (Walmart Exclusive)

[AgentOrange]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

Well, in 3 more years, pretty much every major catalog title should be out anyway. There's only so many films (and I'm counting major US studio releases, not a lot of the B-pictures). Studios will still remaster titles for their vaults, they just won't be released on disc.

Those type of posts crack me up, especially nowadays. I was concerned a few years ago once the main studios started slowing down. People have been calling catalog dead for like 5 years. If you polled people 5-10 years ago, I think we are WAY beyond where people thought the blu-ray market would eventually go as far as depth and breadth of catalog.

Of course it will probably die eventually, but not before the vast majority of the studios back catalog are out there. Hell, I've even bought in a few times that catalog was dieing. But these last couple of years and the rise of the niche labels show that anyone calling on the death of blu-ray or the death of catalog releases are getting way ahead of themselves. If anything, right now seems to be the opposite with deeper and deeper catalog getting release. Are we missing plenty of hollywood A tier films? Sure, but I think many of those will continue to get filled in eventually.

A release like this just means Universal got lazy. The same crap happens on previous formats. There is no rhyme or reason to when a "classic" gets treated like this. If the "right people" favored this film, it might have gotten a 4K scan. Unfortunately, it was just one of those that got a half-assed effort to be sent off as a Wal-Mart exclusive. Hopefully it gets corrected with a Criterion release in the future.

[yellowcakeuf6]

Originally Posted by AgentOrange

Those type of posts crack me up, especially nowadays. I was concerned a few years ago once the main studios started slowing down. People have been calling catalog dead for like 5 years. If you polled people 5-10 years ago, I think we are WAY beyond where people thought the blu-ray market would eventually go as far as depth and breadth of catalog.

Of course it will probably die eventually, but not before the vast majority of the studios back catalog are out there. Hell, I've even bought in a few times that catalog was dieing. But these last couple of years and the rise of the niche labels show that anyone calling on the death of blu-ray or the death of catalog releases are getting way ahead of themselves. If anything, right now seems to be the opposite with deeper and deeper catalog getting release. Are we missing plenty of hollywood A tier films? Sure, but I think many of those will continue to get filled in eventually.

A release like this just means Universal got lazy. The same crap happens on previous formats. There is no rhyme or reason to when a "classic" gets treated like this. If the "right people" favored this film, it might have gotten a 4K scan. Unfortunately, it was just one of those that got a half-assed effort to be sent off as a Wal-Mart exclusive. Hopefully it gets corrected with a Criterion release in the future.

Good, because that last line was meant to crack you up. The main point was the end of even new scans for a lot of these type (films most have heard of and that have reputations) of catalog titles.