Avatar Extended Edition - 24th of November

[Anamnesis]

This just landed in my e-mail inbox...

Special Features:

* Original Theatrical Version
* Special Edition Re-Release
* Collector’s Extended Cut - 16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening
* Capturing Avatar - an in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew
* Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
* Production Materials
* Open “Pandora’s Box” and go deeper into the filmmaker process
* Interactive Scene Deconstruction: Explore the various stages of production through 3 different viewing modes
* Production Shorts: 17 featurettes covering performance capture, Scoring the film, 3D Fusion Camera, Stunts and much more
* Avatar Archives including original scriptment, 300 page screenplay and the extensive Pandorapedia
* BD-live Portal with additional bonus materials

[Black13teen]

Thats more like it. Did it have a price?

[Anamnesis]

Originally Posted by Black13teen

Thats more like it. Did it have a price?

Take your pick:

$129.97

$94.97

[Black13teen]

http://hd.engadget.com/2010/10/05/av...pecs-are-fina/

[DarkEye]

This is mine

[Suntory_Times]

meh, the lack of 3d makes this a no buy for me.

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

meh, the lack of 3d makes this a no buy for me.

The lack of a reasonable price makes this a no buy for me.

[LordCrumb]

Originally Posted by Anamnesis

Take your pick:

$129.97

$94.97

Originally Posted by atexp80

The lack of a reasonable price makes this a no buy for me.

stone the flamin' crows! what kind of price is that?

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

stone the flamin' crows! what kind of price is that?

Yeah, I saw it crop up on EzyDVD last night and I was "WTF?!".

Seriously, $95 for 1 film is ridiculous just because it has 3 discs. I'm getting Inception with 3 discs in a briefcase with extra stuff for $50 and just got the I Am Legend Ultimate Collector's Edition with 3 discs for only $30. Australian distributors and studios really need to get their act together. For DVD I was an extremely strong supporter of local titles and my collection supports that but with Blu-ray the studios have really done themselves a disservice by over-inflating the prices of a number of Blu-ray titles. This same set retails for $55 ($56.50AU) in the US and you can bet the sale price will be lower so it's a little ridiculous for Fox to release the same content and then expect people to pay a minimum of a 170% markup just for a local release.

This is price gouging and hopefully people will vote with their wallets by not buying or taking their business elsewhere. This is extremely poor form coming after what looked to be a promising change in the Blu-ray market locally with the Warners and Universal 2 for $20 sales.

[razor81]

AVATAR UK more expensive and limited 1000 copies.
Now just available at Play.com
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/1...n/Product.html

[DarkEye]

Originally Posted by atexp80

Yeah, I saw it crop up on EzyDVD last night and I was "WTF?!".

Seriously, $95 for 1 film is ridiculous just because it has 3 discs. I'm getting Inception with 3 discs in a briefcase with extra stuff for $50 and just got the I Am Legend Ultimate Collector's Edition with 3 discs for only $30. Australian distributors and studios really need to get their act together. For DVD I was an extremely strong supporter of local titles and my collection supports that but with Blu-ray the studios have really done themselves a disservice by over-inflating the prices of a number of Blu-ray titles. This same set retails for $55 ($56.50AU) in the US and you can bet the sale price will be lower so it's a little ridiculous for Fox to release the same content and then expect people to pay a minimum of a 170% markup just for a local release.

This is price gouging and hopefully people will vote with their wallets by not buying or taking their business elsewhere. This is extremely poor form coming after what looked to be a promising change in the Blu-ray market locally with the Warners and Universal 2 for $20 sales.

There's a small difference between Avatar and Inception, Inception is one of those Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy triple packs similar to Clash of the Titans whereas Avatar's 3 disc edition is 3 full Blu-Ray's and judging from some of the pics, is not just a 3 disc Blu-Ray in a case, it may be a Blu-Ray digipack which would bump up the price.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by DarkEye

There's a small difference between Avatar and Inception, Inception is one of those Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy triple packs similar to Clash of the Titans whereas Avatar's 3 disc edition is 3 full Blu-Ray's and judging from some of the pics, is not just a 3 disc Blu-Ray in a case, it may be a Blu-Ray digipack which would bump up the price.

Which does nothing to explain the mark up he refers to. .

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by DarkEye

There's a small difference between Avatar and Inception, Inception is one of those Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy triple packs similar to Clash of the Titans whereas Avatar's 3 disc edition is 3 full Blu-Ray's and judging from some of the pics, is not just a 3 disc Blu-Ray in a case, it may be a Blu-Ray digipack which would bump up the price.

It may be the case that it's 3 Blu-ray discs and the other films I mentioned were not. Having said that though, you mention packaging but Inception is in a briefcase with a book and other bits and pieces so technically there's actually more stuff in that set than just a basic digipak.

All the same, that's comparing separate releases from different studios which is one of the things I mentioned but it's not the main thing. The main thing is that here we're going to be expected to pay probably $80 at the cheapest at somewhere like Big W or JB for this and up to $95 at EzyDVD, whereas considering the US retail is $55 US it'll probably sell for $45 AU. As it'll be the same content it's ridiculous that we should be expected to pay close to or more than double for exactly the same thing.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by atexp80

It may be the case that it's 3 Blu-ray discs and the other films I mentioned were not. Having said that though, you mention packaging but Inception is in a briefcase with a book and other bits and pieces so technically there's actually more stuff in that set than just a basic digipak.

All the same, that's comparing separate releases from different studios which is one of the things I mentioned but it's not the main thing. The main thing is that here we're going to be expected to pay probably $80 at the cheapest at somewhere like Big W or JB for this and up to $95 at EzyDVD, whereas considering the US retail is $55 US it'll probably sell for $45 AU. As it'll be the same content it's ridiculous that we should be expected to pay close to or more than double for exactly the same thing.

and it's up for pre-order for 18 pound in the uk.

[gettodamoofies]

^ Yeah, The Hut has it for $32.50 AU (current exchange rate) delivered so you can almost buy three for what one will cost you here!

[LordCrumb]

Added: http://au.blu-ray.com/movies/Avatar-Blu-ray/16756/

[Yautja]

Won't be buying it, to damn expensive for 16 mins of extra footage & the extras, well I simply don't think it's worth it

[gettodamoofies]

JB, in addition to listing their exclusive collector's tin (see thread) has just listed the standard 3-disc Blu-ray for $39.98. That's a far better price and makes EzyDVD's $95 for the same thing seem outright insane. I've pre-ordered the UK one for under $31 and it ships 9 days earlier so should arrive on or before it's out here but for those of you unable/unwilling to order overseas it's a local option that is a reasonable price.

[gettodamoofies]

EzyDVD has now revised their pricing for their Avatar releases. $49.97 for the standard version and $79.97 for the tin set with film cell and booklet.

Still more expensive than JB which itself is more than importing, but all the same it seems they've got their pricing in line now.

[gettodamoofies]

EzyDVD has further revised their pricing down to $44.97 for the standard and $72.97 for the edition with the film cell. The standard version has now dropped by more than half of what it originally listed at ($95).