Control Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 My wife’s choices for tonight’s viewing are DONKEY SKIN and MOTHRA VS GODZILLA and it’s quite the double-header. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 I’m going for some Powell & Pressburger WW2 stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Can't go wrong with Jacques Demy, Godzilla, or Powell & Pressburger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 https://www.klstudioclassics.com/list/view/code/april-studio-classics-sale-2019 Kino Lorber is a decent studio. I have this feeling a bigger sale is on the horizon; usually a lot of these boutique places have "halfway to Black Friday*" type sales in June, and I think Kino offers more at that time. But I got this email and figured I'd share. *Credit Vinegar Syndrome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Hey, they got Burnt Offerings and Trilogy of Terror. If I hadn't just got off on my mail order binge since I got paid I'd snag those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Speaking of Vinegar Syndrome, the "Halfway to Black Friday" sale is May 24-27. Already setting the money aside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 (edited) July Criterion list includes Do the Right Thing 1984 Europa Europa The Bakers Wife Klute Fassbinder BRD trilogy Edited April 15, 2019 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 So a report came out the other day that sales of DVDs and Blu-rays have halved in the last five years. Samsung is out of the Blu-ray player business now, and they were the biggest manufacture thereof. Several movies recently have not gotten 4K physical releases. We may be looking at the death of physical media in the next five years at this rate. Which is heart rending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 Even with the downward trend it still accounted for 13 billion dollars. So even if it halves in another 5 years that's still a 6 billion dollar industry. Samsung hasn't introduced a new player to the market since 2017. It's a crowded space that they're not leading in, and according to this article it's more complicated than just sales are bad: https://www.commdiginews.com/business-2/samsung-electronics-drops-blu-ray-117106/ It'll certainly be more niche. With more labels popping up or expanding, they're creating a collector's market similar to Vinyl. And there's still a market for people who are crazy about audio and picture quality. Speaking of Vinyl, I read about how CD sales in the UK were somewhere around 2 billion pounds, dropping about 80% over the last 10 years - which is similar to US trends. And yet CDs still exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Yeah, if vinyl isn't going anywhere (and cassettes have even made a resurgence!) then DVD and BluRay aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 That is what I thought about laser discs. I mean, I know that was truly a niche market, but still! I dropped a grand on my dream laser disc player one year before the introduction of DVD's. I'm what you might call a too late adopter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I feel pretty good about the future of DVDs/Blus, mostly for the points Jae and Curt bring up. It would be interesting to see the tiers of how niche the niches are. Like, I imagine the vinyl record people outnumber, say, the VHS people (or maybe not). Both probably far outnumber the 8-track people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Haha, 8-track people. Funny that, King Fowley from Deceased actually IS a big 8-track collector and has a ton of them. It's hilarious the albums he digs up and posts about on Facebook. "THE COLLECTORS TOTALLY DONT THINK THERES A COPY OF KILLERS ON 8 TRACK BUT I FOUND IT GUYS!!!!!!!!!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Well, no sooner do I post my comment above, that I check in on one of my old favorite mail-order places, Sinister Cinema, to find that they will probably be closing up shop in the early part of 2020. They used to put ads in Filmfax Magazine back in the mid-/late 90s, and they're basically where I satisfied my movie jones. They were like ... say, Code Red for the VHS era, but not that banana suit wearing asshole and a LOT more film rights. I got my first exposure to one of my favorite films, "I Bury the Living" through them. I had this incredible "Drive-In Double Feature" tape with White Zombie and Devil Bat, which turned me on to Bela Lugosi's Poverty Row films. And, through them, I developed my love for the trailer comp. They have a good copy of Sonny Chiba's "Golden Bat", and they're running their (maybe final) Summer Sale (12 movies for $98, postpaid). Check em out, I don't get shill bucks or anything; you might find some interesting stuff. Http://www.sinistercinema.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Ah man, I remember them. Filmfax was a cool mag with its own interesting niche of coverage. If I had been a little older I'd have ordered from Sinister, but I was the age where my folks were buying me the magazine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 On 2/16/2019 at 12:03 AM, Brian Fowler said: Random question: what movie or movies do you own a truly insane number of copies of? Haven't cataloged my collection in 6 years. 1.NotLD68-Between vhs,dvd,Blu and laserdisc I own 8 copies. 2.Texas Chainsaw Massacre original-Got 6 copies. 3.Rock n Roll High School-5 copies. 4.Phantasm-Got it on betamax,vhs,laserdisc,dvd,blu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Now I'm wondering if there are Betamax People out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: Now I'm wondering if there are Betamax People out there I follow like Betamax facebook groups. Edited April 18, 2019 by piranesi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 On 4/17/2019 at 7:31 PM, Curt McGirt said: Now I'm wondering if there are Betamax People out there I collect Betamax pre records. Got Phantasm for 50 cents a few years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Solid Arrow video Easter sale if you have a region free player. Picked this up for about $23 US: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) Oh fuck. I need that. But I don't have a region free player Edited April 19, 2019 by Casey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 12 hours ago, bobholly138 said: I collect Betamax pre records. Got Phantasm for 50 cents a few years ago. I collected until the Nashville flood of 2010. Lost my small collection and haven't looked back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Went ahead and bought that Hellraiser boxset that @piranesi mentioned, even though I don’t have a region free blu-ray player (yet). Too good of a deal to pass up, especially when I saw prices listed other places that weren’t having a sale. Ended up going down a rabbit hole and found a few other movies I’d like to get ahold of as well, but I won’t do that until I have a region free player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I picked up the Blu-Ray of the 2018 Halloween today, only because of my OCD completest nature. I could have easily bought it digitally, but that doesn't make as nice of a display. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Shout Factory having a sale Here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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