Name a bundle that included BR, DVD and... Widescreen/4:3 copies? Much less VHS?

I'll pay a couple extra dollars for the BR + DVD bundles (Although, all my stuff plays BR these days)... I think it's fairly standard to get Widescreen these days as well. I don't remember any recent 4:3 releases for newer titles.

The main issue I have is "release day" discounts of $~10-15... followed by months of $~20-25. I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again.

I was mildly exaggerating, but I mean stuff like this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CTSDDVO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00867GHS8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl...

I don't mind the 2-disc BR/DVD bundles, I just wish I had the option to buy a 1-disc BR instead. It gets even harder when you want a 1-disc 3D BR.

What these bundles are telling us---and they're fairly common in US market anime---is that the price of pressing a DVD is so cheap it's better to make one SKU with both. Probably also encourages people to buy a Blu-Ray player as well if they still haven't.

And that's fine, but the bundle seems to be used to justify higher prices. "Oh, well it would be $10, but you get both a Blu-ray and a DVD, so we have to charge you $20"

Bleah. I haven't noticed that in the US anime market, but prices are all over the map as companies seek better/sustainable business models. Anime suffered from the general decline in DVD sales, and the decrease in retail outlets, like The Musicland Group (Musicland, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, On Cue, and Media Play superstores) going poof after Best Buy bought them.

> I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again.

This tells you the item was not a "must have" then, or you would have bought it already, rather than waiting...

Well to be honest, no Movie is a "Must Have"... for me at least. But a "I REALLY want that to sit on my shelf and hold up all the dust" is only worth so much.

you're cherry picking your sample set, here. of course it makes more sense that people who still buy movies will have a significant percentage who adopted blu-ray.

personally, i know not one single person who still buys physical video discs anymore. personally, i can say that demand for blu-ray is non-existant.

what would be useful, here, would be some sort of data that compares usage/adoption rates for units of time after a formats release. how many people are using blu-ray X years after it became available, compared to DVD, etc.

i would expect it to not be as popular as DVD or VHS before it, but expectations and anecdata aren't terribly useful.