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Oh that, it's just my first run pressing of Ernest Goes to Camp/Ernest Goes to Jail bluray. Still in its original wrapper.
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I don't get the impression that these people think their collections will be valuable. Normal people can certainly have the desire to collect things - it's a regularly-occurring trait that is exploited in all kinds of ways, from things like baseball cards and comic books to the gameplay mechanisms in platform video games (i.e. Mario 64 - collect all the stars, etc.). It's just with these people, this normal drive to collect is in overdrive, and combined with some fairly large amounts of OCD. Some BDs here and there are genuinely valuable (certain Steelbooks, out-of-print Criterion titles, Blue Underground's release of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, etc.), but in general no, they are not valuable.
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Apr 7, 2011 19:31
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Neo_Reloaded posted:I don't get the impression that these people think their collections will be valuable. Normal people can certainly have the desire to collect things - it's a regularly-occurring trait that is exploited in all kinds of ways, from things like baseball cards and comic books to the gameplay mechanisms in platform video games (i.e. Mario 64 - collect all the stars, etc.). It's just with these people, this normal drive to collect is in overdrive, and combined with some fairly large amounts of OCD. But these people truly believe that having some lovely Universal insert or a sticker on the front that says Playstation 3 Compatible means they have a vastly superior version of the release.
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Apr 7, 2011 19:36
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sportsgenius86 posted:But these people truly believe that having some lovely Universal insert or a sticker on the front that says Playstation 3 Compatible means they have a vastly superior version of the release. I think most acknowledge that wanting the slipcovers / stickers / whatever is a matter of personal preference. Since they do value having slipcovers or whatnot, they obviously value their way of collecting more - but they don't go around looking at other people's collections going "Pfft your collection sucks, how can you have a good collection without slipcovers, you fail at Blu-ray." I definitely still think they're crazy, but they're not rude at least - the people who gloat about how they burn slipcovers and think they're pushing the slipcover people's buttons come across as the rude ones.
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Ineffiable posted:Only for stuff that quickly goes OOP or has a limited release. I don't see much of a collectible market in VHS or even DVDs, unless it was stuff that had a print run in under 5k digits or something. You would be surprised. I remember buying Titus Season 1-3 from DeepDiscount for $20 (they were running a BOGO sale). They were at that price point for a long time so I was surprised to find out, a year or two later, that they went OOP and were going for $80+. I sold mine for $75.
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Sporadic posted:You would be surprised. I remember buying Titus Season 1-3 from DeepDiscount for $20 (they were running a BOGO sale). They were at that price point for a long time so I was surprised to find out, a year or two later, that they went OOP and were going for $80+. I sold mine for $75. Ah poo poo I knew I shouldn't have passed that up...10 times...
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Apr 7, 2011 20:57
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Some interesting Kino announcements: The Romantic Englishwoman - 6/21 Priest of Love - 6/21 The Sacrifice: Remastered Edition - 6/28
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Apr 7, 2011 22:14
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poo poo yeah. The Tarkovsky wave's a rollin'.
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Crackbone posted:Ah, the Spergy Decimal System. There seemed to be no love for this. I love this. Here is love for it.
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Apr 7, 2011 22:29
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FitFortDanga posted:
Hell yeah. Haven't seen the other two, how are they?
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Some Like It Hot is up for preorder on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TJ1H1E/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B004TJ1H1E&creative=373489&camp=211189 $15! MGM seems to do well on their flagship titles, so I'd like to think this will be another excellent release. FitFortDanga posted:Some interesting Kino announcements: Eisenstein's Strike is coming before the end of the year. They also confirmed Dersu Uzula will be out next year. Besides their silent releases, I would donate plasma for a month to get the Parajanov films in Blu. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Apr 8, 2011 |
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I'm not a big Eisenstein fan, but I'm all over Strike. And yeah, Parajanov would be nice.
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Egbert Souse posted:Eisenstein's Strike is coming before the end of the year. They also confirmed Dersu Uzula will be out next year.  Both of these things make me so happy. I thought I'd never see Dersu on bluray because no one loves it as much as me.
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After almost three years since the first set came out, Warner Bros has announced Justice League: Season Two for a July 26 release. Let's hope it's not another three years before they get around to releasing Justice League Unlimited, too.
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FitFortDanga posted:First thing to go in the trash after the shrinkwrap. Jesus, people are loving insane. I really hate guys who take "collecting" DVDs/Blu-Rays that seriously. They're usually the same guys who have 2000+ collections that are like 95% poo poo movies. This is the kind of guy I'm talking about. 7847 discs, and mostly garbage. I already hate this person.
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Apr 9, 2011 18:30
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The test is to go by title and look for 10,000 BC.
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It can't be hard to find better ways to spend the Scrooge McDuckian amounts of money those people must have. Jesus Christ, buy a boat if you're that desperate to piss away cash. Or donate all those movies to a library.
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Apr 9, 2011 20:05
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But, but...my collection! 
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The best is the spergers in the Big Lots Deals thread on DVD Talk. I'll be the first one to admit I look at the thread regularly for legitimately good deals, but there are people that will buy literally any lovely movie they can find and then list it on there and talk about it like they just found On The Waterfront or something.
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FitFortDanga posted:This is the kind of guy I'm talking about. 7847 discs, and mostly garbage. I already hate this person. Who the hell buys much less starts out their collection with Crocodile Dundee II? Also, What happened in May 2007 to make him start collecting DVD's like they were going out of print?
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Island Nation posted:Who the hell buys much less starts out their collection with Crocodile Dundee II? I kind of understand the mindset. It's a cheap status thing. While looking at the titles individually, it isn't that impressive but I bet he loves the shock value when people come over and see 7000+ DVDs on his shelf. I knew a guy just like that. He was a UPS driver that had 1500+ DVDs and one of those 73" Mitsubishi HDTVs back in 2007. He also didn't watch one of them by himself, talked throughout the whole thing and would only use a handful of discs to show off his TV (The Matrix or various music concerts). He also barely knew anything about movies. To him, it was a talking point. Look at my awesome TV and wall with a thousand DVDs on it. Aren't I a cool guy doing really good in life?
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FitFortDanga posted:This is the kind of guy I'm talking about. 7847 discs, and mostly garbage. I already hate this person. Oh come on! Nobody actually liked Town and Country. Why would anyone buy that?
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FitFortDanga posted:This is the kind of guy I'm talking about. 7847 discs, and mostly garbage. I already hate this person.
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas looks pretty good, though probably not as sharp as a more thorough restoration (and digital transfer) could have produced. Kes looks beautifully milky, though I kind of can't believe the absence of grain. Sweetie is amazing, wow, not a big surprise seeing as it's a recent transfer but still, look at those granules.
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Oh man I'm so disappointed with the UK edition of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, it's needlessly encoded at 1080i50 so you actually still get PAL speedup.
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$10 coupon for The Incredibles http://www.disneymovierewards.go.com/promotions/special-offers/incredibles-upgrade If you combine this with Target's $5 off Disney coupon, you can get it there for $11.99
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I have to get that Fear version since I lent my DVD criterion to my friends ex-gf and never heard from her again.
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doctor thodt posted:$10 coupon for The Incredibles Where's the target coupon?
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Twilight Zone Season 4 dropped down to a reasonable $60.99 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LVRQ4M/ie=UTF8&tag=evdaisafi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004LVRQ4M
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I've discovered something that really bothers me about buying blus from a large chain (i.e. Best Buy).... Regardless of how long the movie has been out on bluray it never goes down in price. Yes they do sales that lower the price for a limited time, however it's not the same procedures that you would see with say a video game. When a video game comes out they may have a special sale for the first week or so that it's out (similar to what they do with blurays) then after it goes back up to it's normal price until the next sell, however after a certain amount of time the game goes down in price even when it's not on sale. Why do Blus not depreciate over time? It doesn't make any sense that Smoking Aces is still 24.99 at Best Buy when it has been out on Blu for at least two years. Shooter is still 24.99 at BB, which if I remember correctly is one of the first blus to come out. Yet the price is still near release value. I get that they want you to check their weekly ad for all the best prices, but the fact is if they would mark down blus as they should be, based on time, I would be more inclined to go in there and spend 100-125 every few months or so on blus then only buying one or two that are part of the weekly sale. Am I the only one that finds this practice to be frustrating? I know the simple solution is to buy from Amazon, but sometimes I don't like to wait.
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The people who buy Blu-Rays from Best Buy probably don't know or care that they could usually get them on Amazon for way cheaper, just so long as they can buy it now and watch it in thirty minutes. edit: wow that sounds kind of pompous, if it helps I know at least five people who do this. Paying twice over the Amazon price is like a little premium for owning it immediately. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Apr 11, 2011 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The people who buy Blu-Rays from Best Buy probably don't know or care that they could usually get them on Amazon for way cheaper, just so long as they can buy it now and watch it in thirty minutes. Best Buy is ok for new releases or when they do have sales (sometimes you can get things cheaper there than amazon). It's just back catalog stuff that is dumb. Like if you wanted Due Date last week you could get the 3 disc combo for 15$ on blu, but if you wanted the single disc edition of Shooter it's 25$. For things like that I totally support amazon. I just wish that chain retailers would use the same pricing platform for all entertainment media. Plus the reward zone program is amazing if you also have the gamers club.
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At least Best Buy usually sells below MSRP, have you ever tried to get something at B&N when it wasn't on sale?
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dogflaps posted:Part of me secretly thinks he'll make Han shoot first again, after seeing him wearing the Han Shot First t-shirt. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Apr 11, 2011 |
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Volcasarus ReX posted:I know the simple solution is to buy from Amazon, but sometimes I don't like to wait. Annnnd that's why their back catalog stays high. Well, that and they have to maintain sales staff and retail space so their margins have to be bigger vs. an electronic retailer.
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Volcasarus ReX posted:I know the simple solution is to buy from Amazon, but sometimes I don't like to wait. It's all about Amazon Prime. Free two day shipping and if you preorder something, it shows up on release day.
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Crackbone posted:Where's the target coupon? http://i.imgur.com/ryOY9.jpg Best Buy is also offering $10 off if you buy Cars + The Incredibles together. The base price for each is $24.99, and there's also an $8 coupon for Cars. So: $24.99 x 2 = $49.98 -$10 Best Buy combo discount -$10 Incredibles Coupon -$8 Cars Coupon =$21.98 for The Incredibles + Cars And on top of that, both titles come with $8.50 movie cash for Cars 2.
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doctor thodt posted:And on top of that, both titles come with $8.50 movie cash for Cars 2. This has BAD IDEA written all over it.
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The idea that Blu-Rays stay static in price whereas video games go down is laughable, especially at Best Buy. You can usually find a ton of Blu-Rays at $10-15 there, whereas video games is such a loving racket that you'll be looking at $50-60 for most games even a year after release, and forget about getting below $55 or so during release week.doctor thodt posted:$10 coupon for The Incredibles Is there some generic code that I can enter or do I have to own The Incredibles on DVD? Nut Bunnies fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Apr 11, 2011 |
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Captain Charisma posted:The idea that Blu-Rays stay static in price whereas video games go down is laughable, especially at Best Buy. You can usually find a ton of Blu-Rays at $10-15 there, whereas video games is such a loving racket that you'll be looking at $50-60 for most games even a year after release, and forget about getting below $55 or so during release week. Also videogames depreciate because people want the latest and greatest in a way that doesn't apply to movies.
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