No more Blu-ray for some TV shows

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:50 pm

Studios are scaling back their catalog of television seasons that are available on Blu-ray, instead offering the shows on DVD only.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video are among the studios retreating to DVD, according to Video Business. Sony’s Rescue Me and Damages and Warner’s Nip/Tuck will no longer be offered on Blu-ray, even though the format was available for previous seasons.
The reason is simple: Blu-ray versions just aren’t selling. Compared to movies, where the sales ratio ranges from 12 percent to 15 percent Blu-ray for average releases and 25 percent to 30 percent for blockbuster films, roughly 95 percent of TV show sales are in DVD format. The exception is often in the action genre, where one retailer said the fourth season of Lost sold 14 percent as Blu-ray.
Stores and studios lay the blame squarely on the higher cost of Blu-ray discs. While new release films differ by roughly $5 between the DVD and Blu-ray versions, TV shows on Blu-ray can carry a $10 premium. Retailers note that Blu-ray television seasons perform best when their price matches the DVD version.
But I think there’s also an inherent and obvious distinction between a television show and a film, and for that matter between a mediocre film and a blockbuster one. Of course when both formats cost the same, the Blu-ray owner is going to pick up a Blu-ray disc, but if there’s any difference in price, the viewer’s going to opt for the DVD. There’s something more disposable, and therefore not worth the extra cost, about television. That Lost costs more on Blu-ray than DVD validates this theory, because it’s more like a film than an easily-digestible TV show.
The big picture here is that Blu-ray won’t take over for DVD until they level off on price, and even studios seem to be conceding that point.
http://www.myce.com/news/no-more-blu-ra ... ows-23166/

personally i think blue rays is not a lasting fad -a lot of people dont really want to see there favorite actor have pimples and such. also trying to get the general public. too fork out more money for a replacement unit for there dvd unit that works just fine. just is not working in these tuff times. besides why pay more for another disk that works plays the same content as the ones in the wallyworld $5 bin !

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:23 am

its funny that a SONY studio is one backing off...as blu-ray is a SONY thing.

I have some blu-ray stuff. and some not. I dont really care.

Greg

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:17 am

I think that some things need to be on Blu-ray and some things don't. The only things that I think should be on Blu-ray are action movies or movies with a lot of CGI. Most other stuff just seems wasted on Blu-ray to me.

eGo

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:26 pm

Honestly, there are alot of crap BR things out there. I have seen a few that look no better then a dvd.

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:17 pm

it's so easy to just download TV shows and watch them in upscaled Divx, and they look fine. once you watch them not likely to watch them again, so why spend all that money? good movies on the other hand are well worth having a blu-ray copy of...

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:37 am

It's funny that they are basing stuff on these figures so early in the game. Most of the people I know are just this year planning on going Blueray. That sais, I agree with tunis5000, I just download the shows, because I really only watch them once & can live with just acceptable resolutions.

Err · Post by **Err** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:26 am

normalicy wrote:It's funny that they are basing stuff on these figures so early in the game. Most of the people I know are just this year planning on going Blueray. That sais, I agree with tunis5000, I just download the shows, because I really only watch them once & can live with just acceptable resolutions.

If I'm not mistaken, this is also the first year where Blue-Ray Players are finally under $150. Once the Disks drop a bit in price, everyone will switch. Disney is playing it smart by offering the regular DVD and Blu-Ray with many of their movies. My guess is that the TV seasons are a bit slow because may watch them online or download them.

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:38 am

where are you downloading your tv shows ...?

I used mininova but that is gone... what do you use now?

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:50 am

thepiratebay.com

or

isohunt.com

Those are the biggest.