Hello Johanna, You may find the following information from the FAQ page on the vendor's website helpful:
What is the quality of your DVDs? It depends on the title. We do our best to find and offer to our customers the highest quality DVDs possible. However, since most of the Persian movies made in Iran, never get officially released in USA, we buy the imported versions or copied versions from distributors in California. The imported versions, do not have the best picture quality but since there are no other alternatives, we offer them on our site but usually at a lower price. If a DVD is officially released in USA, we carry them in our store and you can order them usually for a few dollars more. Movies made prior to 1979 are usually in black and white and have average quality. Michael S. Phillips Library Associate I Monographic Acquisitions Division Texas A&M University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-5000 Tel. 979.845.1343 ext. 151 | Fax. 979.845.5310 http://library.tamu.edu From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Vendor Question I can't speak to overall question but I can say that charging $15 for "institutional use" as they have on many titles is NOT legit. You are NOT getting any additional rights and if you need PPR or streaming rights they do not own them and can not sell them. I know this because I represent THIS IS NOT A FILM the top film listed. I assume they buy it wholesale (not my dept but I am checking) and I find the "institutional use" claim highly misleading. Overall it appears they seem to sell a lot of titles that like many "imports" from places like Mexico & India are not legit but have sort an established black market among immigrant communities in the US. Jessica On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Johanna Bauman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello, I've been lurking on this list for a while, but have never posted. I'm the Visual Resources Curator at Pratt Institute and was put in charge of the film and video collection about a year ago. I'm not sure if such a question is taboo or not, but we are looking to purchase some films that are only available from iranianmovies.com<http://iranianmovies.com>, and I was wondering if anyone who has worked with this vendor in the past would be willing to share their experiences good and bad off list. Also, I was trying to see if it is possible to search the list archives, but I couldn't find an easy way to do this. Thanks a bunch. Johanna +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Johanna Bauman Visual Resources Curator Pratt Institute Libraries 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11205 718-687-5745<tel:718-687-5745> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Pratt 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.
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.
