Utopia series blu ray tv#

Release in Spain, Germany or US and they get hardly anything or nothing so much lower fees for the local distributor so making a BD release more economic.

So sell a BD of a BBC, ITV or C4 show in the UK and the actors get a cut.

Utopia series blu ray tv#

It seems in the UK studios are happy to say we are prepared to forgo BD sales as enough people will buy DVD instead and the 'real BD fans' will import from elsewhere so we still get our money.Īlso for UK TV I am sure I have read there are licensing cost and residual issues for the actors fees. What people will not pay for is when a TV company releases a series / season of TV and expects £30+ with no extras and minimal cost to them as show already exists in HD. There is a market for BD but it needs to be a premium product at a fair price eg look at the effort studios like Arrow, Eureka and BFI but into their BD with loads of newly commissioned extras at around £13 a go. Economic climate is very different to 10 years ago where the mass public need to save money so are happy with a cheap DVD boxset or watching via Netflix, Virgin, Sky etc on demand They want a premium price to make up for the chip as chips DVD prices and the lower revenue they make from the subscription streaming (Netflix etc) compared to DVDs golden age in the late 1990s / early 2000s when they could sell large volumes of new release TV shows on DVD at £30 to £50 a season (people now expect that price for a whole shows run so 7+ seasons). You have captured the quandry that especially the TV companies have with releasing their shows on BD. The trouble is are customers willing to put up with high prices for these sets? Paramount have got behind blu-ray for these special editions, and they've kept the prices high throughout to ensure they won't lose money on them, I brought Star Trek - The Original Series for £45 the other day, which as far as I can tell is the lowest list price it's ever been (£155 off the RRP, meaning it was likely to be close to £200 on release). Though then we get special edition BR box sets coming out with a huge fanfare like the recent Twin Peaks box set.

I've heard a number of times the industry is disappointed with BR sales well they've only got themselves to blame. I can't believe that both formats still exist like they do, their was a sense that the tide was turning but when the likes of C4 do this we are just going backwards. Stop making the blasted players and start phasing out the discs, BR players are dirt cheap and the discs can be picked really reasonably. It's just an example of the format all round, the industry have never had the balls to say that is it with DVD we are throwing everything behind Blu ray.