Buffy the Vampire Slayer- Season 8 Motion Comic Blu-ray

[Clark Kent]

My intuition tells me this release is a market test by Fox to gauge the potential sales of the real Buffy show for Blu-ray. If it sells like gangbusters, do not be surprised to see the real show released on BD.

[Kevtronn]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

My intuition tells me this release is a market test by Fox to gauge the potential sales of the real Buffy show for Blu-ray. If it sells like gangbusters, do not be surprised to see the real show released on BD.

This makes me excited!!!

[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

My intuition tells me this release is a market test by Fox to gauge the potential sales of the real Buffy show for Blu-ray. If it sells like gangbusters, do not be surprised to see the real show released on BD.

+1 Its def the cheapest way to test the "waters". But i cant wait to pick this up.



-itswez

[deadhatetheliving]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

My intuition tells me this release is a market test by Fox to gauge the potential sales of the real Buffy show for Blu-ray. If it sells like gangbusters, do not be surprised to see the real show released on BD.

Originally Posted by Kevtronn

This makes me excited!!!

Originally Posted by itswez

+1 Its def the cheapest way to test the "waters". But i cant wait to pick this up.
-itswez

I'm sorry but FOX is just f**king with the Buffy fans. They just need to release the series on BD and watch the Green roll in.

[wil_l_0w]

Buffy

[ArmyOfDarknessAW]

Originally Posted by deadhatetheliving

I'm sorry but FOX is just f**king with the Buffy fans. They just need to release the series on BD and watch the Green roll in.

Yeah no kidding i know most shows are not financially safe bets right now but Buffy would do well i think. If they did do it i would just want a complete series set. I don't know about other fans but i would pay $300 for Buffy and $250 for Angel complete BD sets.

[s72450]

What is a "Motion Comic"?

[Mobe1969]

I wonder what it covers up to. Or has it wound up. I've just been buying the TPBs and didn't realise it had wound up.

[ArmyOfDarknessAW]

Originally Posted by s72450

What is a "Motion Comic"?

It shows the comic in a movie type format with voice actors(not the shows stars) for the characters. Some are pretty darn good while others suck pretty bad.

[BillieCassin]

To be honest, I'd settle for SD versions of Buffy if they'd just release 4-7 Anamorphic.

Yes, yes...I love Joss, insanely so. I am one that often times refers to him in shorthand as "God."

But...they have them on Netflix. I want them on Disc. I know, I know, gaffes/gaffes...we are watching a show about Vampires killed by a pretty tiny blonde high girl - I can deal with the occasional boom mic.

I would cry buckets of tears to get those seasons for which Widescreen versions exist. When I buy my next TV I am going to make sure it can show PAL (my current HDTV will not) because I want to finally import the European sets where they are WS.

I love you, Joss. Please take my money?

[fredbalsodn]

Ok they put this on blu why not the show and Angel while they are at it.

[Luka]

Still no release date?
i read that this comic motion will include the first 19 issues.

[bboisvert]

Originally Posted by bondfooll

Really? Gross. Guess I'll be abstaining from this, too. Besides, I think I'd prefer to imagine Sarah Michelle Gellar et al.'s voices reading those lines than hear some scabs phone it in.

You're really going to skip a release because some guy on a web site quotes an anonymous source saying that people aren't being paid? Without any knowledge if it's true and/or what the contracts/agreements were for the work?

[Deadster]

Just found out about this, can't wait!

[GuruAskew]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

My intuition tells me this release is a market test by Fox to gauge the potential sales of the real Buffy show for Blu-ray. If it sells like gangbusters, do not be surprised to see the real show released on BD.

My intuition is that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and that Fox is releasing this on Blu-Ray because they'd rather have Blu-Ray owners paying a few extra bucks to get Blu-Ray copy than have Blu-Ray owners paying a few bucks less for a DVD copy or even refusing to pay anything for a DVD copy.

As people have said before in this thread, releasing the show on Blu-Ray would be an enormous and expensive undertaking and I don't think this release really has anything to do with gauging interest. Fox knows the interest is there and I bet they also know that this thing would only sell a fraction of what a live-action release featuring the real cast would sell.

Ultimately my intuition also tells me that this release shows that Fox would be more than happy to release Buffy on Blu-Ray if it were as easy as releasing this motion comic on Blu-Ray is. It just isn't as easy.