Hi, I suspect that blu-ray releases are an attempt to skim the cream off an increasingly smaller purchasing impulse and the back catalog will never see the light of day on this new format. Blu-rays have already gone flat in terms of sales.
Formats are disappearing faster and faster. Blu-rays aren't replacing DVDs so much as selling HD monitors and TVs. - - Roger Brown Manager UCLA Instructional Media Collections & Services 46 Powell Library Los Angeles, CA 90095-1517 office: 310-206-1248 fax: 310-206-5392 [email protected] > >Dear Gary, > >First of all, no one waits for the plumber here in Jersey. Godot will come >first. Leave the door open and hope the vandals are good with a monkey >wrench. > >Agreed on everything else but here's the thing. The indies are indeed >moving >over to Blu-ray (Milestone and Flicker Alley will have their first >releases >while Kino and Criterion are already heavily into it) but I suspect it's >only because DVD sales suck so much. It might only be a five years of time >since streaming is the tidal wave of the future, but right now most of >that >is VHS quality. So, yes, you are probably buying into a dying medium but >it >might be far superior than what you get in a few years. And streaming >might >not have bonus features -- some of those are as important to the classroom >as the films themselves. I really do feel that at $25 a pop, the best >machines (the Oppo) are under $500, and HD projection not much more, then >it's worth the investment for film studies. I, of course, agree with my >pal >Oksana whose main interest is providing optimal quality for her students. >And I assume she is paying a lot more for the discs (they have to have >PPR) >while their students are paying cheaper tuition since Canada tends to be >less in fees. So my conclusion (which I know she would laugh at if she >wasn't crying) is that Concordia gives her more support for her work. > >As a father with a freshman in high school, I have to save a LOT of money >for the undergraduate degree (and more yet for the doctorate) and I'm >hoping >that his college will provide him with a maximum experience for his >education. Since it'll be physics, I suspect this will be true. For film >studies, it probably depends on the college. You're lucky, of course, to >have the PFA on campus so your students *do* have the 35mm experience in >the >best possible fashion. > > > >Best, >Dennis Doros >Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero >Harrington Park, NJ 07640 >email: [email protected] >www.milestonefilms.com >www.ontheboweryfilm.com >www.arayafilm.com >www.exilesfilm.com >www.wordisoutmovie.com >www.killerofsheep.com ><http://www.killerofsheep.com> >AMIA Austin 2011: www.amianet.org >Join "Milestone Film" on Facebook! > >Follow Milestone on Twitter! <http://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms> > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
