DVD Giveaways Signal Woes of Once-Booming Format

[Movie Junkie]

Read the story here.

 

I'm linking to the story instead of copying it to here because of the restrictions listed at the bottom of the article.

[volvofl10]

most giveaways are old tv series, or 30 year old films, i cant say ive seen anything decent dvd wise on the front of a UK newspaper though

[jack]

I got the original Moby Dick out of The Times, it is one of my all time favourite films and I would have bought it if I could have found it a decent price. HMV wanting ?14.99 for a film made in 1956 is downright scandolous! Although Amazon have it at ?4.99 plus P&P. I guess there is some truth in the article though.

[dbminter]

I saved money once by getting a DVD I wanted free with a Pizza Hut pizza.

[Grain]

I got The Mask free in a box of cereal a couple years ago, bastards have been skinning us alive for too long with this $20-30 per disc shite for too long anyway. They actually expect people to start replacing their collections with $35 BDR or HD disc? Fuck that.

[dbminter]

I got... All Dogs Go To Heaven 2. Granted, it was a movie only disc, made specifically for Pizza Hut, with a starting ad video stream before the main menu. Which only has two menu options. Start movie and choose Espanol. But... I didn't have to deal with that for too long...

[Pain_Man]

Fucking-A, Grain!

 

And that's AFTER paying a bloody grand for the player!? They can kiss my entire ass.

 

Besides, looking at a display at BestBuy, the picture is better, but it ain't that much better.

 

And until is , I ain't buying shit.

 

DVD-Video has the market right now and for the forseeable future. Some might point to the 8-track's quick demise at the hands of the cassette, but the cassette tape was invented before the 8-track hit the market. And, besides, the 8-track was a pain in the ass, always cutting out in the middle of a song you liked, only to fade back in when it kicked to the next "track." And they were rather fragile.

 

My Dad actually had a car with an 8-track deck in it. Needless to say, no one ever even tried to steal it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Grain said:

I got The Mask free in a box of cereal a couple years ago, bastards have been skinning us alive for too long with this $20-30 per disc shite for too long anyway. They actually expect people to start replacing their collections with $35 BDR or HD disc? Fuck that.

[linx05]

Donnie Darko? They shouldn't be giving it away for free!

[bill7621]

  Pain_Man said:

My Dad actually had a car with an 8-track deck in it. Needless to say, no one ever even tried to steal it.

 

Stealing 8 track players was a thriving business when I was young. I lost three of them to the thieving bastards. Cassettes might have been invented before the 8 track, but at that time , they weren't as good or as readily available. However, when they did start mass producing them, 8 tracks became obsolete almost overnight.

[spinningwheel]

AHHHH yes, the 8 track quadrifonic player with a mini joystick to tune the speakers to just what you wanted.....

[Movie Junkie]

  spinningwheel said:

AHHHH yes, the 8 track quadrifonic player with a mini joystick to tune the speakers to just what you wanted.....

I had a Learjet 8-track player. I installed it in my 1960 Chevy Impala Ragtop along with 4 speakers and the sound was fantastic. Edited August 24, 2006 by Movie Junkie

[polopony]

you see what those ragtops go for today in #1 condition its a downpayment on a nice house

[bill7621]

You have to admit they sounded pretty darn good. We were used to AM radio and these sounded a whole lot better than that. FM was little more than a wet dream at that time.

[polopony]

you see what those ragtops go for today in #1 condition its a downpayment on a nice house ,saw one on ebay with the 348 ,$30,000 and bidding not over

[Movie Junkie]

  polopony said:

you see what those ragtops go for today in #1 condition its a downpayment on a nice house ,saw one on ebay with the 348 ,$30,000 and bidding not over

I paid $200.00 for it in 1968. It had a 283 engine that had been bored out to a 327. Damn, I wish I still had it.