Oh, so you liked AVATAR, did you?
So I hear that movie with the blue freaks sold a metric shitload of DVDs and Blu-Rays (where a metric shitload is measured as 3.2 million copies in the first day, and double that over the following three days). Congratulations, Jim, I believe you now hold the majority of shares in the planet Mars.
I like to think of myself as being on or shortly behind the tech curve; I have a small stack of Blu-Rays sitting awkwardly in the corner of my DVD shelf (they’re smaller than DVDs so they don’t sit nicely, and the silly blue cases make them look, well, silly). I’ve had a Blu-Ray player of some kind or other for nearly a year, and I’ve got a 1080p telly that comes with enough useless options to sink a ship, so it’s heartening to see a movie — any movie, even a lame one like this — ship a significant quantity of the silly blue boxes, because if more people are buying the things distributors might finally consider implementing some kind of price reduction. Hooray! I’ll finally have something to be grateful to Avatar for.
Then again, you all seemed to buy the movie in the first few days of its release, meaning you paid through the nose for it. That’ll raise some executives’ eyebrows — “They paid $40 for this disc? Charge them $45 next time, see what happens.” If Blu-Ray prices go up over the next few months, I’m placing the blame squarely on you, whoever you are, for buying Avatar on release day.
Hey can anyone tell me what the special features are like? I wouldn’t mind seeing how they — oh wait, there are no special features, never mind
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You can pick the Blu-Ray copy up for $25 at Jb Hi Fi…this is a first for a new release!! You would be lucky to hit up Big W and get a new release Blu-Ray for under $40 bucks!
I of course put the blame on the low price to the lack of special features…hmm they do however have a deal…spend $100 and get Avatar for free*ponders*
I as well picked up avatar on Blu-Ray for $24.99 or whatever it was at JB. Not so much that I wanted to watch it again, rather then I wanted a Blu-Ray I could actually test my TV out on. Not some normal movie scaled up to Blu-Ray format.
JB are sneaky with their opening week prices. I remember Modern Warfare 2 was only $90 at JB for the first few days, then it got bumped up to $110 or $120 or whatever. They can afford to keep it cheap for a while. I wonder if that's what's happening this time? Or is it, like you say, the lack of special features?
Get 2001 then, it was shot in the old Imax format and scales gorgeously to Blu-Ray. Best-looking Blu-Ray I own, by quite a margin. Avatar was shot on digital, which carries less information than film, so I don't know what you mean by “normal movie”s being scaled up.