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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Harry Potter movies to be removed from shelves December 29th:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/warners-pulling-harry-potter-out-of-circulation-dec-29-with-12-1b/ |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 |  Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
Warner pulling a Disney/ Pervert  "The vault" is the new price gouger. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 4,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott:
Harry Potter movies to be removed from shelves December 29th
Why are they gonna do that...? | | | | Registered: July 7 2000 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Zwollenaar: Quote:
Quoting samuelrichardscott:
Harry Potter movies to be removed from shelves December 29th
Why are they gonna do that...? To encourage people to hurry up and buy their copies by Christmas. They are trying to encourage artificial demand by restricting availability. |
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| Registered: December 2, 2010 |  Posts: 16 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bob9000: Quote:
Quoting Zwollenaar:
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Quoting samuelrichardscott:
Harry Potter movies to be removed from shelves December 29th
Why are they gonna do that...?
To encourage people to hurry up and buy their copies by Christmas. They are trying to encourage artificial demand by restricting availability. Is this tactic really useful these days? I understand in the days of VHS, vaulting a movie would be no problem, but now that everything is digital and most movies can be found on torrent sites or usenet, seems like they're just hurting themselves. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Wonder if this strategy will be applied to other catalogue titles. The Harry Potter franchise i imagine would be the bench mark to test it's affectiveness.
But if it is rolled out on a wider bases, it would be a nightmare for us collectors.
Watch this space i say. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | $5 bet for the first 3 who want it... They will be back on shelves by X-Mas 2013. I'll also bet 1 vs 5 they are back next X-mas but think WB might wait at least one year, hench the odds.  I'll take 10 of these bets (got to limit losses in case  ). I am so not running out and buying any of them. Still only seen the first myself, just wasn't my thing. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dogmatix81: Quote:
Is this tactic really useful these days? I did ask myself the same question. Quote:
... seems like they're just hurting themselves. Well, that the movie industry seems to be incapable and/or unwilling to accept that the world has changes isn't really new. I for one will do the same I always did: if HP7.1 and HP7.2 are available for under 10€ each I'll buy, otherwise I don't and I won't lose one second of sleep if they are "not available" by stupid marketing f-up. cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dogmatix81: Quote:
Is this tactic really useful these days? I doubt it. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
They will be back on shelves by X-Mas 2013. If not 2012. assuming the world does not end of course. |
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 | Eagle | | Registered: Oct 31, 2001 |
| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 563 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to The Digital Bits, it will be 2012 when they come back out.
"Hard-core Potter fans will be pleased to know that 2011 is not the end of the Harry Potter film franchise on DVD and Blu-ray. Warner Home Video plans to release a comprehensive Harry Potter film collection, with even more extras and collectible premiums in 2012. More details about the collection will be available at a later date." | | | | My phpDVDprofiler collection |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eagle: Quote:
According to The Digital Bits, it will be 2012 when they come back out.
"Hard-core Potter fans will be pleased to know that 2011 is not the end of the Harry Potter film franchise on DVD and Blu-ray. Warner Home Video plans to release a comprehensive Harry Potter film collection, with even more extras and collectible premiums in 2012. More details about the collection will be available at a later date."  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Saw this on another board but it bears repeating...now if only they'd lock the Twilight movies in the vault. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Inflate demand by limiting supply and inflate demand by "re-releasing" after a period of unavailability.
At first I thought it seemed counter productive as they would lose the money that went into the initial pressing of the discs but then it occurred to me that they could re-use those discs in the re-release. The only real loss would be the printed cover. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | I imagine, like Disney, they will not pull the manufactured discs from shelves. Most Disney products stay on shelves for a while after distribution ends until all products sell out. So, no discs or covers in storage. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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