Why exactly do Blu-ray releases of mega classic movies take so long to release?

[snooloui]

Originally Posted by retablo

Which makes little sense, since whoever wanted to buy Star Wars would've bought it years earlier were it released then. Holding something back doesn't create anticipation - it just causes people to ask where it is. How exactly will the demand change by holding a title back? If you have 1 million people who want a blu-ray in 2011, you'll still have 1 million people who want it when it's finally released in 2013.

That's not really true. The number of people adopting Blu-ray is increasing all the time. It's obvious that a catalogue title released now would sell many times more copies now than if it had been released five years ago.

[Atreyu]

I think on a lot of older titles, some have to be restored, repaired or whatnot and the cost of doing these such things right now, greatly overshadows the profits of such releases.
Maybe when more and more people start adopting blu ray as their preferred disc choice the price of restoring older films will go down in price and be more
cost effective.