Crash, Dollhouse, The Unit...: What's with all these strange Pre-Orders at Amazon?

[Samuray]

A couple of days ago I was ecstatic when I found "Crash - Season 1" on Amazon up for preorder -- on Blu-ray Disc, no less! With all those TV series being abandoned on this format, I didn't expect a show from a smaller network to get the HD treatment, and i was extremely happy to be proven wrong.

My delight was short-lived, though, because only two days later I found myself being able to preorder "Dollhouse - Season 1", "The Unit - Season 4" and "Sons of Anarchy - Season 1", all on Blu-ray. All of these are great shows, especially "Anarchy" made my heart leap.....but at the same time, all these preorders seem extremely unlikely to be real.

Don't get my wrong, I'm talking about real preorders here, not just a fan-made listing with the option to receive an email if and when the title becomes available. All those sets can really be ordered, for a fixed price, they don't just have a date yet.

But come on....Amazon can't be serious about this? None of these sets have been announced, not even hinted at, and at least in the case of "Sons of Anarchy" a release on Blu-ray was considered highly unlikely not too long ago. Looking at the TV-on-DVD landscape there is a clear trend away from Blu-ray, which saddens me....but I can't argue with "Desperate Housewives - Season 5" being announced as DVD only and "Prison Break" probably being abandoned on BD, with only the final two episodes seeing a HD release.

Well, anyway.....where are those Amazon listings coming from? Are they based on anything? I can't imagine them to be real, but since when does Amazon allow unannounced and unlikely-to-be-released items to be preordered?

I'm a bit confused, maybe someone knows more about this?

.Samuray