BDs That Are Out of Print (OOP)

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Nightman04

Looks like Mysterious Skin might be oop.

Damn, if anyone has any leads I hope I can track this down. Wanted to get this since I started really getting into collecting around 2015 and wish I'd bought it sooner. Alternatively there is a German release from Camera Obscure, but the extras are different.

[ThePhantom]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Damn, if anyone has any leads I hope I can track this down.

Looks like it's still in stock at Barnes & Noble for the moment. YesAsia too, but "ships within 30 days" and I don't wanna know what the shipping cost would be! And for what it's worth, Diabolik says "Out of Stock - More Coming Soon," but I don't know if that's just what it always says when something goes OOS/OOP.

Hopefully it's just between pressings or something, or if it is out of print, maybe one of the boutique labels will pick it up for a re-release/remaster.

[chrisgould]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

girl, that's my king Corey Haim in License To Drive.

Isn't that picture from the movie "Watcher" with the intelligent dog that the creature tracks?

[CelestialAgent]

Looked up Bessie with Mudbound now announced for Criterion. Good luck finding Bessie

[stratford]

Originally Posted by neo_reloaded

Universal is pretty good about keeping stuff in print. Switching most catalogue to pressed MOD seems to have really helped with that. I'm sure somebody can name an outlier, but every Universal title I've wanted that has appeared "OOP" has eventually come back in stock, so I'm personally not stressing about stuff like Bowfinger and Hulk 4K. Even Gruv just says things are 'out of stock,' not 'out of print' (that I've seen at least).

No reason not to jump on Mystery Men for $9.99 - if you want it, now's a fantastic time to grab it. But those $100 copies of Bowfinger on ebay? Nah - I bet a repress will come eventually.

ref ' But those $100 copies of Bowfinger on ebay? Nah - I bet a repress will come eventually.' Is someone having a giraffe? Here in UK easilly available for an hour of legal min

[Mister_Kidd]

Originally Posted by chrisgould

Isn't that picture from the movie "Watcher" with the intelligent dog that the creature tracks?

They were talking about @houseca's avatar which is the license photo from License to Drive.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Looked up Bessie with Mudbound now announced for Criterion. Good luck finding Bessie

Seems like all HBO TV movies and miniseries, except for a few very recent ones like Chernobyl, were put OOP about a year or two ago.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Seems like all HBO TV movies and miniseries, except for a few very recent ones like Chernobyl, were put OOP about a year or two ago.

Are there any others worth hunting down? I know Mildred Pierce is OOP

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Are there any others worth hunting down? I know Mildred Pierce is OOP

I'm a big Soderbergh fan, so I bought Behind the Candelabra, Mosaic and The Knick, Seasons 1 & 2 before they went OOP.

I also bought Game Change.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by ShellBeacher

DVD is still over 70% of the physical media market/sales, believe it or not!!!
There's your reason.

what sort of ass hole watches Dee Vee Dee on a 4K UHD 60 inc plus TV?

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by ShellBeacher

DVD is still over 70% of the physical media market/sales, believe it or not!!!
There's your reason.

A significant percentage of what I buy are DVDs, but used copies rather than new copies. There are the occasional DVDs where it makes sense to buy new, but a lot has gone down significantly in price, or can only be found on the secondary market now.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

A significant percentage of what I buy are DVDs, but used copies rather than new copies. There are the occasional DVDs where it makes sense to buy new, but a lot has gone down significantly in price, or can only be found on the secondary market now.

CelestialAgent I have no wish to insult anyone here, but in the belief that 'DVD is still over 70% of the physical media market' and that here in UK/ England physical shops stopped selling DVD players many years ago wouldn't most people buying 60 inch plus 4K TVs be better to just hand their money to a destitute drifter instead? Upscaleing is simply fakery. UK people will know that a £5 note is coloured blue, a £10 note orange. You wouldn't expect to fool anyone by colouring the £5 note orange and expecting them to believe that it is now magicly a £10 note

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by stratford

what sort of ass hole watches Dee Vee Dee on a 4K UHD 60 inc plus TV?

You don't, but obviously lots do. Just because their viewing habits are different from yours, it doesn't make them a**holes.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by stratford

CelestialAgent I have no wish to insult anyone here, but in the belief that 'DVD is still over 70% of the physical media market' and that here in UK/ England physical shops stopped selling DVD players many years ago wouldn't most people buying 60 inch plus 4K TVs be better to just hand their money to a destitute drifter instead? Upscaleing is simply fakery. UK people will know that a £5 note is coloured blue, a £10 note orange. You wouldn't expect to fool anyone by colouring the £5 note orange and expecting them to believe that it is now magicly a £10 note

I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Yes, DVD sales still make up the vast majority of disc sales, but disc sales overall have still fallen off a cliff. DVD sales are down 90% from their early 200s height. Yep, 90%.

What I think is happening is that the few discs (mostly DVDs) still being sold are only being bought by people with TVs so old they don't need BDs or certainly UHDs.

Most people with 4K TV sets are streaming everything, I suspect.

The handful of cinephiles among us at this board are a rare exception to the rest of the marketplace.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

You don't, but obviously lots do. Just because their viewing habits are different from yours, it doesn't make them a**holes.

Jay buying DVD on it's own is not the issue, it is the then watching the arbitary DVD on a huge 4K UHD TV

[noiradelic]

I haven't upgraded to 4K yet, but even when I do, I'll still buy DVDs that haven't been and are unlikely to ever be upgraded to Blu/4K. It's about the movies in the end. A lot of films available to stream aren't HD either.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Yes, DVD sales still make up the vast majority of disc sales, but disc sales overall have still fallen off a cliff. DVD sales are down 90% from their early 200s height. Yep, 90%.

What I think is happening is that the few discs (mostly DVDs) still being sold are only being bought by people with TVs so old they don't need BDs or certainly UHDs.

Most people with 4K TV sets are streaming everything, I suspect.

The handful of cinephiles among us at this board are a rare exception to the rest of the marketplace.

James allways good to have your input. Given that the forum is called Blu-ray dot com, I find it truly astounding that people with TVs that old that they only watch DVD frequent the forum, their choice of course.

I don't doubt that streaming has it's place. I have a Sony XH95. Streaming is good for things that you only want to watch once, Broadcasters' catch up for example. It is also a risk, what if for example Splash (Daryl Hannah), you use netflix for example rather than buy a disc?

Here in UK/ England some titles are DVD only, for example Rams (Sam Neill) I've just found an English friendly Blu-ray import with little effort at quite modest money

[stratford]

Originally Posted by noiradelic

I haven't upgraded to 4K yet, but even when I do, I'll still buy DVDs that haven't been and are unlikely to ever be upgraded to Blu/4K. It's about the movies in the end. A lot of films available to stream aren't HD either.

I'm simply curious, what sort of thing might 'A lot of films available to stream aren't HD either.' refer to please?

[monwobbbo]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Yes, DVD sales still make up the vast majority of disc sales, but disc sales overall have still fallen off a cliff. DVD sales are down 90% from their early 200s height. Yep, 90%.

What I think is happening is that the few discs (mostly DVDs) still being sold are only being bought by people with TVs so old they don't need BDs or certainly UHDs.

Most people with 4K TV sets are streaming everything, I suspect.

The handful of cinephiles among us at this board are a rare exception to the rest of the marketplace.

What facts back this up? Kinda doubt there are tons of people with analog tvs at this point. What you do have is a lot of people ( like my wife) that don't really see the difference or care that .much. Many dvds do yield a decent picture.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by monwobbbo

What facts back this up? Kinda doubt there are tons of people with analog tvs at this point. What you do have is a lot of people ( like my wife) that don't really see the difference or care that .much. Many dvds do yield a decent picture.

I'm not saying they all have analog TVs, although I'm sure a shockingly large number or older people still do. I'm saying they also have small digital TVs or, like you say, they aren't film buffs enough to notice or care about the difference in image quality. I have multiple relatives in that exact boat.

Blu-Ray never took the place of DVD as a mass-market format, the way DVD was fully embraced in the early 2000s to replace VHS, and UHD never took off at all, except as a high-end cineaste niche format like laserdisc back in the 90s