Any suggestions for source of Public Performance Rights for Indian Cinema
or Bollywood films? I have already checked Swank, New Yorker, Kino,
Criterion.
Thanks for any assistance
Nell Chenault
Research Librarian for Film and Performing Arts
VCU Libraries
Virginia Commonwealth University
Hi, wise media people.
We have just received our first request for blu-ray discs and are wondering
what other academic libraries are doing. Up until now, we have only purchased
DVDs and an occasional VHS-tape if the film is only available in that format.
We were wondering how other academic
Hello Gail,
1) We order Blu-ray discs for the collection when we anticipate that a
dvd will be heavily used / very popular (recent awards titles like
Argo), if they are extremely visual (Samsara, Planet Earth), or a little
of both (Life of Pi).
2) Yes, we always try to get a standard
We've been building a blu-ray collection since the summer last year.
We usually order the blu-ray version of most newer films and not the DVD.
Sometimes we find that the DVD/blu-ray combo packs are a comparable price to
the single Blu-ray discs.
I don't know if blu-ray will ever replace DVD.
For now, I'm doing a little bit of all three of the below options. Some
faculty, particularly Film Studies, are specifically requesting Blu-ray, and I
will purchase both Blu-ray and DVD for those titles. But really the Blu-ray
preference has not been very strong overall. I agree that the
Talk about bringing a knife to a gun fight. It's a coincidence that VidLib
is talking about DVD and BluRay today, since an announcement was just made
today by Sony. To really piss everybody off (except for me because I'm
dying to see THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI this way), see what's coming out
I agree with Junior. I've wagered my 2 cents that Blu-ray will not have time to
replace DVD because streaming will obsolete both first. Why not put limited
funds into a streaming platform instead of Blu-ray? Unless it is for film
studies, students can suffer through a standard def version of
