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Originally Posted by WAID
But my recollection was that my first buys were all online and not often new releases, which generally dropped pretty quickly. With all of the online retailers there were e-coupons all over the place and I bought a lot. I specifically remember buying "The Birds" for $6, delivered. I bought the original "Alien" box set (which included the rare bonus disc) for about $40, and the James Bond sets for about the same around the year 2000. True, many titles were non-anamorphic or P & S (which I mostly avoided) but this format allowed me to own a library of titles instead of just a select few titles that I was willing to drop $100 for.
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You started collecting right at a time when online etailing was just beginning, and online coupons and discounts were rampant for etailers to gain marketshare and brand name recognition. A couple of years later, studios started to reduce MSRP for DVDs for the first time, and that's when we really saw discounts for DVDs in the $10 and under range. But one price that has stood is the discounted $14 or $15 for first-week releases. It has never dropped to $10, since MSRPs for new releases are still $29-$30.
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Originally Posted by WAID
I don't see the deals that used to exist, which is probably why I am questioning this more than others. Other than a few Criterion titles I doubt I have ever dropped as much as $20 for a single DVD title. So if the future means seeing "No Country for Old Men" on DVD for $19 and on Blu-Ray for $25 maybe that's a move that I will have to make because the cost difference isn't that great. I'm just curious to know if the Blu-Ray format will become the mainstream and bring the price point down to move more units.
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I think we're all waiting to see how mainstream Blu-Ray becomes. But the price point won't come down until Sony lowers the MSRP of older catalog titles. It is unlikely that new Blu-Ray releases will reach a lower price point anytime soon, seeing how SD DVD prices haven't moved much for new releases. Within 3-6 months, SD DVD MSRPs are reduced, but that same trend hasn't yet happened for Blu-Rays. If it does happen, then Blu-Ray prices may begin to come down.