1962 Mutiny on the Bounty in November 8 - Review up

[Douglas R]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I wish it were so but, if you read some of my posts from several years back, the first red flag for catalog titles not selling well was Close Encounters of the Third Kind because despite all the promotion afforded that particular Blu-ray title and the attention to detail the project received, it still did not perform up to expectations.

Next red flag was the Blu-ray of A Passage to India. From then on, the trend pretty much has been that many of SPHE’s catalog titles have not performed that well at retail. I would be surprised if this is not the case with a lot of the other majors’ catalog titles which have been brought out on the Blu-ray format.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Back catalogue titles on Blu-ray will never sell in massive quantities because a) the people who enjoy those films bought everything they wanted on DVD and b) don't see the need to upgrade because they don't see the difference in quality as hugely significant - certainly nothing like the upgrade from VHS to DVD and c) have invested large amounts of cash in their DVDs and will not buy them all over again.